Example sentences of "of [noun pl] going [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 2 | There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down . |
| 3 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 4 | Its three tall windows gave a view of the stone terrace and the double flight of steps going down to what had once been a lawn and formal gardens , but which was now a half-acre of neglected grass , bounded to the west by the brick annexe of the Vehicle Examination Department , and to the east by the old stable block , now converted into garages . |
| 5 | Most sociologists would wish to maintain that , while their social science does not meet the rigorous criteria of a natural science , in terms of the procedures used for verification of theoretical hypotheses there is some disciplined thinking and testing of ideas going on in sociology which does distinguish it from religious or mystical thinking . |
| 6 | We were able to confirm the histories of families going back to the 19th century . |
| 7 | There were all sorts of things going on with the WTA board , and I took a leadership position there . |
| 8 | The other programme was the field theory initiated by Faraday , according to which electrical phenomena can be explained in terms of actions going on in the medium surrounding electrified bodies and electric circuits , rather than in terms of the behaviour of a substance within them . |
| 9 | The age participation rate ( roughly , the proportion of eighteen-year-olds going on into full-time higher education ) would advance from 8 to 17 per cent . |
| 10 | An explicit shot of Koons going down on his girlfriend as she stuffs a glass dildo into her freshly shorn pudenda — a photo to be crafted via computer into a 12- by 8-foot painting — is particularly repugnant . |
| 11 | It 's a good sport for women to play in and there 's lots of developments going on in the sport and we would like to go into the under sixteens and the under twelves . |
| 12 | there 's plenty of colds going round at the moment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It also becomes quite understandable why people tend to become ‘ ill ’ when there are a lot of stresses going on in their lives and especially at times of life crises such as griefs , changes in work and divorce . |
| 15 | It was a culmination of measures going back to the middle of the nineteenth century , but more particularly government experience since the 1890s. and above all , a shift in attitudes towards State-provided housing . |
| 16 | Most of the specifics , particularly tariffs , are the subject of talks going on in the company 's ATM Customer Advisory Council . |
| 17 | And yet the proportion of women going out to work has doubled over the last thirty-five years ( from 30% to 60% between 1951 and 1987 ) , and almost all this increase is in part-time work . |
| 18 | Seemingly standing rigid like a statue , his eyes are fixed on page one of the script while peripheral vision is trying to take in every detail of events going on around him in the studio . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's a load of nomes going over to the dump , so we 'll have company the rest of the way . |