Example sentences of "on what [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Taylor rightly says , most academics simply do not feel competent to comment on what goes on outside their discipline , and even if they do , there are powerful professional and institutional demarcations which deter them from doing so . |
| 2 | A good deal of observational research has been done on what goes on in classrooms , including language classrooms . |
| 3 | Both horses are ‘ thinkers ’ — in the sense that a lot depends on what goes on inside their heads . |
| 4 | As the NHS did not get a ‘ grant ’ for community care , the temptation will be to concentrate on what goes on inside brick walls and let the rest go hang . |
| 5 | The hydrofoil left Narvik in the early evening bound for Svolvær , on what turned out to be one of the loveliest journeys I have ever taken . |
| 6 | But , as it happens , I took no advice at all before embarking on what turned out to be a disturbing exploration of my own personality . |
| 7 | On what turned out to be the final day , Salisbury , having relished an hour in the heat of battle , was lbw , yorked , by a big Akram inswinger , and thereafter a wicket fell every 18 minutes ; 17 in all ; some through the caprice of the pitch , some through frailty , most because of devastatingly purposeful bowling . |
| 8 | Already in 1860 Crookes had embarked on what turned out to be an important journalistic enterprise , launching the weekly Chemical News , which he edited until 1906 . |
| 9 | On one of our south coast patrols I managed to be in at the kill on what turned out to be one of our more amusing combined operations . |
| 10 | We set off for the ‘ shoot ’ on what turned out to be a dull , damp and extremely grey day , to Ickworth House and gardens — a National Trust property — near Bury St. Edmunds . |