Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices . |
| 2 | The context-specificity of latent inhibition is not be explained ( or at least , not entirely ) in terms of interference effects that go on during the conditioning phase of the procedure . |
| 3 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 4 | I 'd never find out about a lot of things that go on at the hotel without him around . |
| 5 | Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university . |
| 6 | They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street . |
| 7 | Where the book scores is in its revelations about attitudes towards opera management and about deals that went on behind the scenes . |
| 8 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 9 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 10 | A readable picture can be subtle and delicate , with the viewer slowly discovering details that linger on in the mind ’ ( ibid . |
| 11 | We checked on the five french windows that opened on to the playground , noted the survival of the wash-house and , on walking to the side of the school and round the back , found the original planks that constituted the vieille planche intact . |
| 12 | My job essentially was to introduce general management , and therefore I er , I was able to use many of the skills which I had acquired in I B M , but of course , I was also part of the Griffiths debate , here I 'm talking about Griffiths Two , not Griffiths One , I was implementing Griffiths One , which was general management , Griffiths Two was a community , the community debate , so I saw something , which I 'm certainly not allowed to quote , of the great debates that went on over the period of eighteen months before the eventual decision was made about community care . |
| 13 | It was from my teacher and her two other pupils , who were older than me , that I learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the village . |
| 14 | I hope , though , there are fifteen hundred families in Portslade who are doing that job , not for me but for them , so that we can carry out the important educational processes that go on within the college . |
| 15 | From the iron gates that gave on to the road the palace was visible through tall plane tress , but it was not easily accessible . |
| 16 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 17 | He wandered towards the doors that opened on to the wet street , and stared out at the people hurrying along the pavements , feet splashing in puddles , sodden raincoats , barging umbrellas , gleaming cycle capes . |
| 18 | Horrified … and yet strangely relieved and satisfied , and tingling with primitive energy and release , she turned on her heel and threaded so nimbly through the crowded guests that she reached the French doors that opened on to the side veranda before Greg had recovered enough to take a single step . |