Example sentences of "go on [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe it to have been factually true that Crossman 's ambition to gain and retain Cabinet office was the aspiration to be in a position to observe what goes on as an academic or a philosopher observes . |
| 2 | Some people argue that the INFORMAL ORGANISATION describes what really goes on in an organisation whereas the FORMAL ORGANISATION describes what ought to happen . |
| 3 | ( rather a lot of which goes on inside an internal combustion engine . ) |
| 4 | It would be a waste of time for both of you to go on to an interview . |
| 5 | It then accepted a new structure in which a minimum standard of English and arithmetic qualified a child to go on to an intelligence test to measure its ‘ capacity ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 7 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 8 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 9 | The chances of going on to an additional baby from a given family size ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) can be calculated from past data for women who have completed their families . |
| 10 | Ideologically the Party was committed to creating a " working class united front " before going on to an alliance on the French or Spanish models . |
| 11 | But certainly by the end of the 17th century there was a huge concert up there at this time of the morning going on for an hour . |
| 12 | I was watching the Scum Derby on Sky this weekend , and managed to catch some of the phone-in afterwards , where someone was going on about an Autobiography written by the froggy himself . |
| 13 | So sorting out what is going on in an ERP is like untangling a complex bundle of many different strands of similar wool with one hand tied behind the back . |
| 14 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 15 | Generally what is needed is far greater signalling of what is going on in an essay , and more explicit management of the material presented . |
| 16 | From the drawing or painting of a real aquarium one could go on to an imagined aquarium and allow the children to invent fishes of their own design and colour , and other water creatures , shells , etc . |
| 17 | This Bulletin will be paper-based initially , but should go on to an e-mail bulletin board as soon as this is available . |
| 18 | Gomes went on to an unbeaten century , thanks to Malcolm Marshall . |
| 19 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 20 | Dorothy George , after describing the " roastbeef " of old England , retained her rose-coloured spectacles as she went on to an extraordinarily generous view of the Poor Law . |
| 21 | The article went on with an account of Walter and Hilda 's early married life , against a background of dole and depression . |
| 22 | ‘ It is not at all like her , ’ Mrs Marsden went on in an aggrieved tone . |
| 23 | ‘ Now let's go over it once more , ’ he went on in an encouraging voice . |
| 24 | She checked what she was saying and then went on in an altered tone . |
| 25 | However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced . |
| 26 | ‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper . |
| 27 | He said he was to have met another man at a school on Garscube Road in Maryhill and go on to an unknown warehouse . |
| 28 | Thus an organisation may need departmental or unit charts to show all the jobs and tasks that go on within an organisation ; |
| 29 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |