Example sentences of "[verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili . |
| 32 | If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future . |
| 33 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 34 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 35 | You know , they wanted a grandson to carry on the estate . ’ |
| 36 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |
| 37 | Poor Kitty , everyone said , when she did not conceive again ; thank goodness there 's a lesser Bainbridge to carry on the line . |
| 38 | ‘ I lost a fortune by closing the place down , but there was no way I wanted to carry on the business . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 40 | One , however , was the decision to establish a European Movement which would have a National Council in each country , to carry on the debate and pressure governments . |
| 41 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 42 | The editor of a newspaper owned by a Trust will be ‘ forced ’ to carry on the newspaper 's tradition . |
| 43 | It had not originally been intended to carry on the research after that date , but it was so successful that finding was obtained to set up a panel study . |
| 44 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 45 | Community groups are now being trained to carry on the work started by AREPP . |
| 46 | During the successive rounds of these twin controversies Baldwin used with remarkable freedom the House of Commons as well as public platforms to carry on the debate within his own party . |
| 47 | Like the King in chess the Young King had possessed very little power of his own , yet without him it was impossible to carry on the game . |
| 48 | In his book Inside The Over-The-Counter Market , Tom Wilmot , chairman of the best-known licensed dealer Harvard Securities , offers the following definition : " Effectively companies other than stockbrokers or jobbers which are licensed … to carry on the business of dealing in securities . " |
| 49 | It is a natural development to use further reservoirs or special settling tanks to carry on the process of clarification , to remove substantially all the solids in suspension . |
| 50 | The last possibility seems to be that our original conception of the rule amounted to the creation of a disposition to carry on the series in one way rather than another . |
| 51 | The memorandum of association of the Ashbury Railway Company stated the company 's objects to be : ‘ to make or sell or lend on hire railway carriages , wagons and all kinds of railway plant , fittings , machinery and rolling stock ; to carry on the business of mechanical engineers and general contractors , to purchase and sell as merchants timber , coal , metal and other materials , and to buy and sell such materials on commission or as agents ’ . |
| 52 | If musical politics now involves a constantly shifting ‘ war of position ’ , Adorno helps us to understand the enemy , but it is Benjamin who is more able to offer the tools to carry on the struggle . |
| 53 | The deed authorises the bank to appoint a receiver and manager of the company 's undertaking , with power to carry on the company 's business . |
| 54 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 55 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 56 | Civil servants are employed to assist ministers to carry on the business of government . |
| 57 | " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year . |
| 58 | But he died rather young , leaving his widow to carry on the farm and bring up their three children . |
| 59 | God sent the Spirit of Jesus to his followers in order to equip them to carry on the mission of his Son in the world . |
| 60 | These powers are : ( i ) to make any compromise with creditors or persons claiming to be creditors ; ( ii ) to bring or defend proceedings ; ( iii ) to carry on the business of the bankrupt so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the estate ; ( iv ) to accept payment in the future on the sale of any property comprised in the estate . |