Example sentences of "going on [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You may be going on to new material before thoroughly mastering previous material . |
| 3 | But we know are going on to double shift on Monday |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 11 + examination tested what teachers believed it was important for children to know before going on to secondary school . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 8 | Is a search still going on for missing material ? |
| 9 | There 's probably some name calling going on with TI retorting , ‘ well , it is your design ’ . |
| 10 | A site where building was going on with real devotion when I visited the town in August was on the once bare hillside near the old cemetery . |
| 11 | At the fury on Eachuinn Odhar 's face he swallowed before going on with considerable courage . |
| 12 | Where this factor-augmenting technical progress is going on at constant exponential rates , the production function may be written ( 8–15 ) where K denotes the rate of capital augmentation and the rate of labour augmentation . |
| 13 | the local communities have been ignored in these issues and these discussions that are going on between British Coal and the County Council . |
| 14 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 15 | What is it going on about liquid gold and gold ? |
| 16 | Old Angie took everything seriously , always going on about mortal sin , and I got sodding tired of it , and of her , tell the truth . |
| 17 | Erm that um anyway er that 's a slight aside so erm when you hear people going on about false memory syndrome it tends to pre-suppose that there are certain memories which are true by contrast um which is n't necessarily always going to be the case . |
| 18 | The debate about whether and how the universe began has been going on throughout recorded history . |
| 19 | To understand what is going on in physiological psychology one needs to know what these assumptions are . |
| 20 | When they get to Italy the teacher decides it 's all a bit cosy : there 's a lot of good work going on in other curriculum areas , and the children are enjoying it , but where 's the drama ? ! |
| 21 | The first fruits of their mental endeavour are a sobering awareness of the likely complexities of the post-war Middle East and an unease about the meagre quantity of strategic thinking going on in other European and Arab capitals . |
| 22 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 23 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 24 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 25 | However , his denials were rejected by Barnard who described himself as a scapegoat and claimed that there was " a cover-up going on from ministerial level down " . |