Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] gone on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shy 19-year-old who married the heir to the throne has gone on to shake the British monarchy to its roots . |
| 2 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
| 3 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
| 4 | Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality . |
| 5 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
| 6 | This idea of fair play has gone on to permeate the Challenge as a whole . |
| 7 | Regardless of intention , public expenditure as a proportion of national income has gone on rising . |
| 8 | Lord Lane personally rejected the second appeal of the Birmingham Six in January 1988 saying , in words which returned to haunt him : ‘ As with many cases referred by the Home Secretary to the Court of Appeal , the longer the case has gone on , the more this court has been convinced that the jury was correct . ’ |
| 9 | The ministry is spending about £1 million a year on lasers — and some of this money has gone on buying equipment from Spectra-Physics for Japanese companies to try out . |
| 10 | Bardolet has gone on to win three rounds in a row — the first hat-trick by a GM Spain driver — but remarkably he is n't leading the championship . |
| 11 | Since the Second World War the motor industry has gone on and on growing , undeterred even by two oil shocks which sent the price of petrol soaring . |
| 12 | Much relevant research has gone on since then , but it seems to have made very little impact upon the public debate about the ageing of British society . |
| 13 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 14 | In 1935 , after the Murrells débâcle and the dawning realization that very little which could be described as administration had gone on in Masai District , the Tanganyika government did in fact begin to give some serious thought to the type of man which should be sent there . |
| 15 | ‘ T is not in morals to command success … ’ but as the poet had gone on to say , to deserve it was better still . |
| 16 | A considerable amount of planning and research had gone on , and help had been received from Green Space , a group sponsored by Hampshire County Council . |
| 17 | A light had gone on in one of the downstairs rooms in Puddephat 's wing . |
| 18 | All over the room a search had gone on for what the scientists called ‘ forensic residues ’ . |
| 19 | But long before this stage was reached an elaborate , though subterranean , process of screening had gone on . |
| 20 | However , work has gone on . |
| 21 | Briggs felt he had a mission to bring this approach to the notice of his AI colleagues , who. he said , were ‘ either above looking at ancient approaches to the same problem , or … simply ignorant that such work has gone on ’ . |
| 22 | A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months . |
| 23 | Defence Review in 1974/5 , civilian manpower has gone on falling thanks to efforts of successive Permanent Under-Secretaries to reduce overheads and to increase the percentage of the Defence vote that can be devoted to weapon procurement . |
| 24 | But the minister pointed out : ‘ The basic fact would seem to be that , the longer the campaign has gone on , fewer people have been prepared to take on the commitments and risks of being part-time soldiers . ’ |
| 25 | This separation has gone on for far too long . |
| 26 | And so some backtracking has gone on . |
| 27 | The bus driver had given chase , had managed to signal to a police car and the chase had gone on through Kirkintilloch and Milton of Campsie before Cook lost control in Birdston Road . |
| 28 | It is certain that a great deal of such duplication has gone on , all over the chromosomes , and throughout geological time . |
| 29 | We eat well and sleep in the very comfortable barn ; the war has gone on — over the horizon . |
| 30 | As the war has gone on , the lands have become perilous . |