Example sentences of "on [to-vb] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hours later an investigation involving firemen and police was going on to see if the fire was arson . |
| 2 | He switched on to see if the set was still working . |
| 3 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 4 | Having slipped in this normative bias , Plekhanov goes on to consider whether a series of accidents might not change the course of history . |
| 5 | They went on to consider whether the return during trading on one market leads the return during trading on the other markets . |
| 6 | The court rejected this proposition , but went on to consider whether the Secretary of State could justifiably depart from the judicial view on tariff . |
| 7 | Engels ( 1874 ) , in an essay on authority directed against the anarchists , commented upon violent political revolutions that ‘ a revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is ’ , but he did not go on to consider whether the authoritarianism of an armed revolutionary struggle might not subsequently become firmly entrenched in the practices of a post-revolutionary government ; and he could not foresee that the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ( a phrase which he and Marx occasionally used in order to refer to the political dominance of the working class , conceived as the vast majority of the population , in the initial phase of socialist society ) would be transformed into a plain dictatorship and a reign of terror , turned against the people themselves . |
| 8 | So the courts were called on to decide whether the authorities had correctly interpreted their duties . |
| 9 | The workshop then went on to examine whether the government had a credible community economic development policy and whether the various initiatives which it had set up represented such a strategy . |
| 10 | Further objections to the term ‘ popular culture ’ have come from left-wing or Socialist historians who also question the cultural value of these activities before going on to ask whether the word ‘ popular ’ needs also to be examined . |
| 11 | This section went on to ask whether the respondent had had direct experience of a whole school review in accordance with the Oxfordshire scheme . |
| 12 | In Chapter v I shall move on to ask whether the work done by Poulantzas suggests a means of overcoming these problems , and finally I shall consider how successful the theory is as a tool for furnishing explanations of the social world . |