Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself . |
| 2 | It was propped against the end-post of a break in the wall , the same break that gave on to the cottage steps which Forester had passed before . |
| 3 | But you were telling me that there 's a lot of research that goes on in the universities . |
| 4 | such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't believe I am being blamed for a fight that went on in the stand behind us , and I hope video evidence will clearly back me up . ’ |
| 6 | Inside the two women who keep the inn serve through the hatch that opens on to the one room . |
| 7 | In recent months the residents of the area around the bar had been complaining almost nightly to the police about the noise that went on until the small hours and about the hypodermics left strewn around the piazza , a serious health hazard to the children who played there during the day . |
| 8 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 9 | The soul-searching that went on in the security community , in the think tanks and universities throughout the United States in 1990 gives some hint of that ‘ sense of loss ’ . |
| 10 | A door into the hallway , a door beyond that , and Schmidt going for the french window that let on to the patio . |
| 11 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 12 | The context-specificity of latent inhibition is not be explained ( or at least , not entirely ) in terms of interference effects that go on during the conditioning phase of the procedure . |
| 13 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 14 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 15 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 16 | G. observed that although holidays mean a shut-down in industrial activity , they can lead to plenty of pollutions because of the cleaning that goes on in the factories . |
| 17 | The involuntary expansions and contractions have the consequence that to hold on to the most aware response it may be a practical necessity to numb oneself to a local awareness which distracts from it . |
| 18 | Even with all the other general fund-raising that goes on over the year , it is pleasing that you still run or participate in events that are specifically for the Society ; we have again benefited from Raffles , Cake Sales , Bring and Buys , Good as New , Cheese-and-Wines , Coffee Mornings — AND — Sponsored Slims ! |
| 19 | The Canterbury batsman also recalled some of the fun that went on behind the scenes of that tour . |
| 20 | I 'd never find out about a lot of things that go on at the hotel without him around . |
| 21 | Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university . |
| 22 | They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street . |
| 23 | Mediate behaviour that go on inside the head . |
| 24 | Where the book scores is in its revelations about attitudes towards opera management and about deals that went on behind the scenes . |
| 25 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 26 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 27 | A readable picture can be subtle and delicate , with the viewer slowly discovering details that linger on in the mind ’ ( ibid . |
| 28 | Now , erm on the subject of of the family , it 's worth mentioning another erm sort of debate that goes on within the subject of child sex abuse , the business of I suppose you might call it the business of responsibility . |
| 29 | Fourthly , at the level of individual test items , a question can be asked about how well they represent the learning that goes on in the classroom . |
| 30 | In answer her husband threw open the little back door that opens on to the Church . |