Example sentences of "what [verb] on in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 2 | Never know what goes on in a nutter 's mind . |
| 3 | The local nicks at Penzance and St Ives must have some idea what goes on in a set-up like that on their doorsteps . ’ |
| 4 | Well that does n't show any er expertise in what goes on in a solicitor 's office at all . |
| 5 | I think especially in the , in the hotel project it 's useful to have a little bar chart saying this is what goes on in a bathroom . |
| 6 | ’ We ca n't attend their committee meetings which is where all the real decisions are made , and we ca n't get information about what goes on in a committee meeting . |
| 7 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 8 | They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre . |
| 9 | Terms such as ‘ faggot ’ may be unacceptable to polite society in this age of political correctness , but clearly nothing has altered what goes on in the privacy of the popular conscience . |
| 10 | Syria 's response that it ‘ can not control what goes on in the Bekaa ’ and that Turkey ‘ should first try to solve the Kurdish problem within its own borders ’ has served only to confirm Turkish suspicions about Syrian intentions . |
| 11 | What these two exponents have in common is their deep concern for the education of children and their considerable reservations about what goes on in the name of education in our present institutions . |
| 12 | Classroom infrastructure tends to appear similar in different societies ; what is most various is the bureaucratic superstructure , which attempts to translate rhetoric into regulations and routine procedures for monitoring and controlling what goes on in the classrooms . |
| 13 | What goes on in the bedroom remains strictly off-limits . |
| 14 | They say that God intervenes directly in a supernatural sense in what goes on in the world . |
| 15 | One view is that insider research calls for the free-ranging exploration of what goes on in the classroom without the constraint of any preconceived theory . |
| 16 | What goes on in the US today has a habit of repeating itself in the UK tomorrow . |
| 17 | Having said this though , it is what goes on in the woman-only space , which defines it as graduated separatism or not . |
| 18 | Ted , 51 — now trained in law and first aid — said : ‘ As a cleaner I 've had an insight into what goes on in the cells . ’ |
| 19 | The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user . |
| 20 | We therefore found it necessary to look again at the empirical evidence about what goes on in the nuclear family — Who has the power ? |
| 21 | If communities can be thought of as houses , we are as concerned to discover what goes on in the bedroom , bathroom and kitchen as in the dining-room and sitting-room . |
| 22 | The origins are often to be found by watching and listening to what goes on in the Soccer Specials — the trains and coaches which fans hire to transport themselves to away games . |
| 23 | Kerr deplores the invasion of privacy in small houses , where visitors rub shoulders with the tradespeople , where the sounds of the scullery can be heard in the dining-room , where the kitchen can hear what goes on in the drawing-room , and the dresser or cooking-range may be seen in the kitchen . |
| 24 | ‘ Please do n't ask me to explain what goes on in the mind of an Italian Water Board . |
| 25 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 26 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 27 | At any one time , therefore , most of the many beliefs that constitute our knowledge of what goes on in the world are beliefs that we do n't know we have . |
| 28 | But in the end , higher education is a matter of what goes on in the mind of the individual ; it is essentially a personal affair . |
| 29 | I mean , you might think ‘ well , what goes on in the staffroom does n't get round to the kids ’ but it does , it does , even if it is just through the teacher 's own attitude . |
| 30 | Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him . |