Example sentences of "on in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Braintree hang on in captivating encounter |
| 2 | This field , again , is important , since without it , as we shall see , great harm to living creatures could occur as a result of what goes on in outer space . |
| 3 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
| 4 | He motioned Ho to keep still and they sat on in cramped discomfort . |
| 5 | It seemed that she should say something , for Isabel would let the meal run on in total silence , as every meal now ran , until Kathleen feared that she might scream . |
| 6 | Four-year-olds are very different from five-years-olds , says Sandra Brown , an educational researcher who has looked at how four-year-olds get on in primary schools . |
| 7 | The day dragged on in ordinary fashion until Jess felt she would scream . |
| 8 | The doyen of insider trading may be a shadow of his former power after paying fines of $100million and spending two years in prison , but his legacy lives on in criminal trials on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 9 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 10 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 11 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 12 | So the delicate gilded furniture and the rococo mirrors had gone from his office ; and in their place were desks and chairs that renaissance princes might have sat on in perfect safety , even if they had weighed three hundredweight . |
| 13 | There are many businesses that can be carried on in rural and residential areas without causing unacceptable disturbance … |
| 14 | They sat on in friendly silence until the laughter began , whereat Lydia 's glass shook beneath her hand . |
| 15 | In the face of this central problem , the valuable work that has gone on in recent years in narratology , and other aspects of fictional form , is curiously difficult to apply in practice . |
| 16 | The Lyric Theatre put on in recent years a fine production of the book dramatised by John Boyd and Louis Muinzer . |
| 17 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 18 | At Chessington attendances pretty well stood still , again a very good performance in my view and er , justification for the capital spending that 's gone on in recent years to bring that er , to bring Chessington to where we want it to be . |
| 19 | A few pupils have gone on in recent years to study Classics at universities including Oxbridge . |
| 20 | And have there been any specific breakthroughs in organic chemistry you can put your fingers on in recent years ? |
| 21 | Jane is an abductee , someone who believes they have been forcibly abducted by aliens , spirited up to spaceships and physically experimented on in various alarming ways ( rectal probing , artificial insemination , induced premature births ) . |
| 22 | Much research along these lines is going on in various parts of the world ; the quantum Hall effect is an offshoot that derives from curiosity about the effects of a strong magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plane of the two-dimensional system . |
| 23 | Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know . |
| 24 | The way the paint 's put on in various places makes the painting take off , as it were , where the paint gets fuzzy ’ . |
| 25 | I was thinking for instance in the context of Sri Lanka , where I was born , that there is n't a straight forward national liberation struggle , there are lots of problems such as militarism which the women 's movement has taken on in various ways and played a major part in combating . |
| 26 | To understand what is going on in physiological psychology one needs to know what these assumptions are . |
| 27 | ‘ When the alarms go off in the house , they 'll go on in Central Station . |
| 28 | Well special report on tonights programme from Wesley Smith , we erm have got also some other reports coming up later on in Central South from Wesley Smith in America . |
| 29 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 30 | So far he and his foreign minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , have stuck nobly to the view that Germany should remain a member of NATO , with some ( no doubt far fewer ) NATO troops staying on in what is now West Germany and with enough Soviet troops staying on in eastern Germany for a while to make the Russians feel better about it . |