Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do n't they give them the money to carry on and do all the good work they 've done , which is well worthwhile . |
| 2 | Although the policy review will be endorsed by the conference , giving Neil Kinnock the freedom to go on to the offensive against the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election , there are a number of areas of potential conflict . |
| 3 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 4 | And that means that from then on your life is n't your own , you do n't do what you want to do , you do what you believe God is telling you to do and you try to live by what the bible says and you pray about any important decision you make and then , when God has shown you what the right thing is to do , even when you 're going through very hard times , you know that you 're there because that 's where God wants you to be and that gives you faith to carry on . |
| 5 | The idea is that when an instruction that is meant for a coprocessor is encountered , the coprocessor handles it leaving the main processor to carry on with other jobs . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , complaints about station 1OAB competing with the commercial stations continued to plague the Ottawa board , and shortly after our decision to carry on as before , the CRBC abruptly cancelled our license to broadcast and ruled Station 1OAB off the air by the end of the month . |
| 7 | It was a hard decision to carry on working , leaving Thomas with his nanny at their country cottage in the quiet village of Colston Basset , Notts — but she took advice from mothers of other sick children who told her : do n't give up . |
| 8 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 9 | You skirt Godinton Park to go on to Great Chart . |
| 10 | I feel around me and find a branch to sit on . |
| 11 | Bishop Harris , who has welcomed me so warmly , has expressed his willingness to continue on until the end of the year whilst I complete my own duties in Westminster diocese . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr ’ Habsburg may not have a throne to sit on , he does have a leg to stand on . |
| 13 | If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point . |
| 14 | And literacy is not the end of the road : there is the added incentive that those adults who can read and write now have the opportunity to go on to higher education through a special rural matriculation scheme . |
| 15 | He could n't be sure she would have the heart to go on running racehorses if she were forced to believe Harry a murderer … if she thought he had left her without warning , without a note , if she were worried sick by not knowing where he 'd gone , and was also haunted by the thought of Harry with Angela Brickell . ’ |
| 16 | Well erm David said that he did n't think the strike would have gone on or they would n't have the heart to go on without the women ? |
| 17 | I owe it to him to explain what 's happened between us , to get his permission to go on seeing you . ’ |
| 18 | Having mastered aerobatics in his little Deaky before the war , he had gained Hitler 's permission to go on bombing runs , although — boringly — only as a gunner . |
| 19 | If a computer printed out that its memory was suffering from a certain kind of fault , we might be persuaded from past experience to go on examining its hardware for faults , even though we found none in the initially plausible places . |
| 20 | Rachel too climbed out of the pool , not having the heart to carry on swimming now that the others had finished . |
| 21 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 22 | It is her nurturing , sustaining tolerance , extended , it seems , to all the creatures in the garden , that gives the initially repulsive caterpillar permission to live , permission to carry on denuding the box thorn . |
| 23 | The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises . |
| 24 | And turning away from calls to battle and the accompanying rise in blood pressure , it seems reasonable for teachers of literature to go on teaching what they have been trained to teach , and what they like , understand , and are familiar with , without also having to take on many varieties of history — intellectual , cultural , political , social , economic , artistic , and musical — not to mention sociology , the study of popular culture , including the merest graffito , and , inevitably , literary theory . |
| 25 | I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so . |
| 26 | As Basingstoke closed , Holmes was up in support to carry on and , with a three-man overlap , he dummied the full-back and outpaced the cover to race under the posts . |
| 27 | He decided to resign , not as a tactical manoeuvre , but because he did not have sufficient support to carry on . |
| 28 | Annie started to clamour for the story to go on . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Critical rejection of her poetry at an early stage denied her an audience , but also brought her freedom to write on , unfettered by that audience 's demands or limitations . |