Example sentences of "go on [prep] the mind " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ Please do n't ask me to explain what goes on in the mind of an Italian Water Board . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
5 | This phenomenon , which we call ‘ cognitive trial-and-error ’ , requires a deductive process to go on inside the mind of the animal without its actually trying different behaviours . |
6 | Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child . |
7 | For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness . |
8 | In broad terms , the shifts of emphasis have been related to two central themes : first , that notions of reading comprehension must take greater account of what is going on in the mind of the reader , and second , that methods of text analysis must take greater account of what is going on beyond the sentence boundary . |
9 | On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver . |
10 | On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver . |
11 | Everyone has a different pain threshold but how much of that is due to what is going on in the mind is hard to say . |
12 | ‘ No , but then I do n't usually have to wonder what 's going on in the mind of the person who 's made the offer , ’ she returned . |
13 | These all assume that the manager knows what is going on inside the mind of the employee . |