Example sentences of "going on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 2 shows what happens when you tell the computer to obey exactly the same drawing rule , but going on to various depths of recursion . |
| 2 | The next day the RUC tried to block a 4,000 strong Paisleyite protest march from the centre of Belfast , but the marchers broke through and rampaged through the centre of the city breaking shop windows , stoning the Catholic-owned International Hotel and going on to Sandy Row where they tried to burn down a bookie 's shop which employed Catholics . |
| 3 | The elaborate leaving cards prepared for colleagues going on to new jobs or retiring are a remarkable testimony to the good humour of advertising people who see the comedy in the serious daily " grind " of their work . |
| 4 | As for the staff , they 're going on to new jobs . |
| 5 | You may be going on to new material before thoroughly mastering previous material . |
| 6 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 7 | As noted above , a majority of Oxfordshire teachers are in favour of going on to second round of reviews and reports . |
| 8 | The ratio of boys to girls going on to further education was 50 per cent in 1925 , and 63 per cent in 1978 . |
| 9 | They have then concluded that going on to further education or staying at school are better options . |
| 10 | The majority of our trainees are hoping for a career in care , and we hope that many will be going on to further education at the end of the year . |
| 11 | New College is proud of its academic record , with most students going on to further education . |
| 12 | But we know are going on to double shift on Monday |
| 13 | As soon as you have had enough you wait until the plane arrives , going on to newer ground or back for a return flight to the bright lights of Reykjavik . |
| 14 | Despite this perceived impotence , a majority of teachers are in favour of going on to another round of reviews and reports . |
| 15 | Such a class of behaviours includes going on to another task of a kind similar to that assigned by the teacher at one level and exploratory behaviour at a ‘ higher ’ level . |
| 16 | The court heard that Nichol then drove her home before going on to another girlfriend , Leoni Hogg , whom he had previously lived with . |
| 17 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going on to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 18 | In the latter , emphasis was placed on practical skills such as technical drawing and woodwork , with some pupils going on to some form of technical college but with most leaving at 15 years of age and few if any achieving university entrance . |
| 19 | Such a dramatic decline made possible an improvement in the opportunity index , the measure of the percentage of all eleven-year-old children going on to secondary education . |
| 20 | The 11 + examination tested what teachers believed it was important for children to know before going on to secondary school . |
| 21 | By 1939 , nearly 80 per cent of pupils going on to secondary schools came from public elementary schools and the balance from private schools of various kinds . |
| 22 | Extending from the individual partnerships there are wide varieties of helpful relationships between groups or classes of children and a department of a business or a small company going on to whole business/school schemes . |
| 23 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 24 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 25 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 26 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 27 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 28 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 29 | He went there and back and do nothing to the people bol er er involved , being consulted and we 've had that going on for two years no consultation here has taken place with the people who it affects and there 's nothing in your motion to say it will . |
| 30 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |