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Example sentences of "that [verb] gone on " in BNC.

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1	In the face of this central problem , the valuable work that has gone on in recent years in narratology , and other aspects of fictional form , is curiously difficult to apply in practice .
2	Huxley argued , in his classic Problems of Relative Growth , published in 1932 , that allometry was found between related species as well as within species because of a common growth mechanism ; a red deer is , in a broad sense , like a roe deer that has gone on growing .
3	Despite all the fence-mending that has gone on , relations have been , and remain , strained at times , leading to frequently repeated disavowals of territorial ambition by the Lord Chancellor 's Department .
4	( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth .
5	Hon. Members will have an opportunity to debate the Bill , but , whatever happens , it is far better to have a system that is more accountable to local people and that will , we hope , put an end to some of the ridiculous mismanagement , inefficiency and wasting of money that has gone on for far too long .
6	This is a departure from the soul-searching that has gone on since Hayes v Malleable Working Men 's Club and Institute [ 1985 ] ICR 703 , of trying to find a useful comparative male illness ( prostate operation ? arthritic hips ? ) to emulate a medical condition comparable to the inconvenience caused to employers by a female employee 's pregnancy .
7	I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years .
8	I can not say thank you enough for the effort that has gone on . ’
9	You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on .
10	There were two children aged nine and seven and the father was determined to involve them as much as possible in talking about all that had gone on .
11	He was acutely aware of everything that had gone on in front of the then roaring fire .
12	If she went to the Dordogne she would be facing a life that had gone on without her , a life that had not for one minute taken her into consideration .
13	we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative .
14	When she later climbed into bed , though , she was human enough to have found — out of all the unpleasantness that had gone on — a couple of things of a complimentary nature .
15	‘ With all the stuff that had gone on prior to the match and then the conditions we had to play in , the result could have been worse for Rangers but for our goalkeeper , ’ Gough admitted .
16	er , er er er , er it , it has n't been , I mean , i it , it was , last night was the first one that had gone on to like over two hundred .
17	Whatever the support or not for these values , the book fails to recognize the wider changes that have gone on in the family and in gender relations , changes which may be quite separate in origin from the question of poverty , although they add to the poverty of women and children .
18	How could all that have gone on under my nose ? ’
19	We have overhauled the plans in some of the companies , we 've considered changes that should be done to erm make them more , actually more cost effective for the employee , there 's an element of shifting the cost to the employee while still providing them with coverage and I think the other thing is that erm given the the redundancies that have gone on in Camco and other parts of the group and cost cutting generally , it 's very difficult at this stage to predict you have all sorts of things like actuarial assumptions erm cost inflation of medical costs .
20	But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe .
21	I mean there are some Conservatives who do actually believe in the social welfare of the but there are also , I 'm I 'm sure there are large numbers who actually know what vicious streak there is behind a lot of the other measures of social control that have gone on in this country since consensus was in nineteen seventy nine er you actually realise what what a tragedy it is in this area .
22	‘ But surely someone should be carrying the can for everything that 's gone on . ’
23	We 're against all the stupid surfing talk that 's gone on . ’
24	At Chessington attendances pretty well stood still , again a very good performance in my view and er , justification for the capital spending that 's gone on in recent years to bring that er , to bring Chessington to where we want it to be .
25	We did , however , feel it was necessary to go and look at the because we are very aware of , of , of the lighting that affects those properties who 've been very patient with the amount of development that 's gone on there .
26	And of course another very clear example of the overlap between domestic concerns and international concerns is Maastricht and the great debate that 's gone on in Britain about whether or not we should have agreed to the Maastricht Treaty .
27	‘ It 's hard to believe the amount of work that 's gone on and it 's all been voluntary . ’
28	all the consultation that also talks about in this paper is met with the two centres , the management committee of Highfields youth and commune centre and also the users of the Moat Centre and I think in light of everything that 's gone on I think it 's substantially a success to stand here and say that we have at least achieved some result and I I formally would welcome the Libs supporting this this afternoon and I 'm grateful for the turn that the Libs have made and in light of er what er Mr the involvement Mr has put in .
29	erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate .