Example sentences of "go on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 2 | William Howitt , in his Rural Life in England , 1838 , wrote of the Dent knitters , ‘ The knitting goes on with unremitting speed … they burn no candle but knit by the light of the peat fire . ’ |
| 3 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 4 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 5 | Unenamoured of either , he rejected both in favour of the career of a scribe here his own account goes on to other things becoming a clerk to the imperial divan in 922/1516 , and rising thence through the office of private secretary to two Grand Vezirs and that of to become nisanci in 941/1534 . |
| 6 | This field , again , is important , since without it , as we shall see , great harm to living creatures could occur as a result of what goes on in outer space . |
| 7 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 8 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 9 | He then goes on in separate chapters to cover sexism , racism , ageism and disablism . |
| 10 | We are all curious to know what really goes on in other families and all equally determined to preserve the privacy of our own family life . |
| 11 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |
| 12 | What I have proposed in the foregoing pages is a conscious surrender to the culturalists of much of the activity that now goes on in English degrees , in order to retain something more coherent , defensible , and inherently valuable . |
| 13 | Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making . |
| 14 | Mexico apart ( and for domestic reasons no American government can ignore Mexico ) , the administration is not much bothered with what goes on in Latin America . |
| 15 | The mustard goes on like acrylic paint , and the world is not my oyster . |
| 16 | Business was so good a new home had to be found when the Comedy had to go on to other previously arranged bookings . |
| 17 | Curing the deficiency in this area , thirdly , is the necessary base for a much larger proportion of our age groups than at present ( about 15% ) to go on to advanced education — in both academic and especially applied studies . |
| 18 | You skirt Godinton Park to go on to Great Chart . |
| 19 | They tell you to go on with artificial respiration for ever , for long after you 've given up hope . |
| 20 | Erm and erm I do n't think that on the to go on about affordable housing as I did this morning , I do n't think that in fact the affordable housing targets which the different authorities have and although I 've only quoted four authorities I think , I think the other ones will be very much the same . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You may be going on to new material before thoroughly mastering previous material . |
| 25 | As for the staff , they 're going on to new jobs . |
| 26 | But we know are going on to double shift on Monday |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The 11 + examination tested what teachers believed it was important for children to know before going on to secondary school . |