Example sentences of "go on at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
| 2 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 3 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
| 4 | What goes on at these ‘ ends ’ is intelligible only to those involved . |
| 5 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 6 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 7 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 8 | Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available . |
| 9 | There was nothing to go on at all . |
| 10 | There is absolutely nothing else to go on at all . ’ |
| 11 | But they were n't totally happy — for it was confirmed that the interrogation of the prisoner — going on at that moment — would reveal where the stuff had gone . |
| 12 | While this was going on at one firm , the table split and the trainee dealer slipped and sprained his ankle . |
| 13 | The machine is called a ‘ Fourdrinier ’ machine and mimics the hand process in a continuous conveyor belt fashion with wet pulp going on at one end and a dry roll of paper at the other . |
| 14 | If an organiser does not co-ordinate and monitor and know exactly what 's going on at each stage , then ultimately he has only himself to blame if something goes wrong . |
| 15 | To have a noisy celebration going on at such a time is causing considerable distress to the family of the late Sir Nelson . ’ |
| 16 | I I 'm I say you must excuse me going on at such a pace but I 've got A I 've got another meeting quite shortly and B you 've got some little mo I think M Michael 's looking to take over . |
| 17 | Even I did n't believe what was going on at first . |
| 18 | But then , I do n't like much of what is going on at all . |
| 19 | that he knew what you were goin was going on at all ? |
| 20 | knows what is going on at all times within the department ; |
| 21 | I did n't really have much idea of what was going on at all . |
| 22 | No extended lines of credit , no invoicing thirty days later and all designed to be quick in-and-out operations before the tax man or the VAT man has twigged there 's anything going on at all . |
| 23 | Pooling of clients and vendors is envisaged : ‘ Both parties should know what 's going on at both ends ’ . |
| 24 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps . |
| 28 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 29 | Another problem may be that you only have one machine for both recording and playback so that only one of these activities can go on at one time . |
| 30 | It is , then , because he is explaining differences and resemblances as he is that Darwin , in 1838 , needs a theory of purely opportunistic adaptive change in changing conditions , a theory making no developmentalist assumption as to a preferred direction that life will take provided it can go on at all . |