Example sentences of "go on [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | With currently available equipment we are not able to discover what goes on in detail in the brain when someone is speaking , though we can make guesses based on evidence such as speech errors ( ‘ slips of the tongue ’ ) and the effects on speech production of different sorts of brain damage . |
| 2 | Obviously if you did a course in engineering or modern languages and you are going for a job where these skills are required it should not be difficult to explain that this is what positively interests you and you chose the subject because you wanted to go on to employment in the same field . |
| 3 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 4 | ‘ I want you to organize inquiries as to the whereabouts of Alfred Glynn , starting at the bookshop then going on to residents in the street who might have seen him ; get in touch with his brother at the pottery . |
| 5 | Their daughter Mary was born at Linlithgow , of which her father was also fond and to which he fled after defeat by the English at Solway Moss , before going on to Falkland in the wooded heartland of Fife . |
| 6 | Maybe it 's time you came down to see what 's going on at Theatre in the Mill . |
| 7 | The people of Midlothian are sick of the Liberal Democrats , because an argument is going on at present in Midlothian about who most wants to back the consortium and whether it is the Scottish National party or the Liberal Democrats . |
| 8 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 9 | In addition , there is a revolution going on in Japan in the financial services sector as it faces deregulation . |
| 10 | Meetings were still going on in Manchester in a last-minute attempt to avoid today 's scheduled hearing in the High Court . |
| 11 | However , it is estimated that although there is a lot of work going on in ESs in universities , companies and research departments worldwide , only a few dozen are in regular use in aircraft maintenance . |
| 12 | It is important for us to understand , therefore , that what was going on in schools in the 1920s , '30s , '40s and '50s paled into insignificance by the side of community drama . |
| 13 | Pupils can go on to play in groups of four . |
| 14 | Pupils continuing Latin take Higher in S5 and may go on to CSYS in S6 . |
| 15 | Do not go on to fill in the objectives list until you and your partner have begun negotiations on your expectations . |
| 16 | But Mrs Thomas knows that most of her pupils will go on to college in distant cities , and few return . |
| 17 | Miss Lamb 's own inquiries convinced her that exploitation does go on in homes in the Teesside area . |
| 18 | The Ellerman & Bucknall ladies team won their heat and then went on to victory in the final . |