Example sentences of "on from [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Some contain two or more different plants to flower together or to follow on from each other .
2 Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite .
3 Following on from Better Schools , the Education ( No.2 ) Act 1986 removed control of the secular curriculum from LEAs ( section 23 of the 1944 Act , above , being revoked ) .
4 There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing .
5 The gallery has secured a newly discovered and never before exhibited example from that group ‘ Sunset at Petworth House ’ and has placed it among examples by other artists from Richard Dadd to Lucian Freud in a show called ‘ British Watercolors ’ , on from 5 May to 5 June .
6 You 'll be on from 7.30 A.M. to 4 P.M. this week ; next week , 1.30 P.M. to 10 P.M. ; third week 3 P.M. to midnight .
7 Moving on from sports-style shirts , these hand-made knitted tops come in a range of bright colours , with or without collars and in long-sleeved and short variation .
8 The conflict between Chramn and Chlothar dragged on from 556 to 560 , when the prince was finally defeated , captured and burned .
9 They are part of the culture of society and are passed on from one generation to the next .
10 He wandered aimlessly on from one squalid street to another .
11 Never go straight on from one candidate to the next without pause for reflection , no matter how rushed you feel .
12 All the complex information which is passed on from one generation to the next is coded using specific arrangements of just four molecules !
13 Barnard considered that the energy introduced into the homoeopathic potency during the succussion process stabilized the arrangement of the water polymers and that it was these shape-specific polymers which were built up and passed on from one potency to the next .
14 For Dr Eugene Nida ‘ culture ’ is ‘ all nonmaterial traits which are passed on from one generation to another .
15 Generalizing a little , we might plot the stress trajectories , that is the direction in which the stress is handed on from one atomic bond to the next , very much as in Figure 2 of this chapter .
16 It seems probable that all tools were handed on from one generation to the next ; their frequency in Kent may reflect a greater overall wealth and the ability to dispose of such items as grave-goods .
17 In the case of Statement B racism is entailed in a set of inherited predispositions passed on from one generation to another .
18 The distinctive property of cultural behaviour , as ethologists use the term , is the way it is passed on from one generation to the next .
19 Darwinian , genetical evolution takes place because genes are passed on from one generation to the next , and if some genes build better bodies than others , they are favoured by natural selection , become commoner , and evolutionary change will take place .
20 Never had his mind worked so fast or so clearly , leaping on from one conclusion to the next , some exhilarating , some appalling .
21 Genes are , essentially , segments of DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid , a complex chemical compound constituting the basis material of the chromosomes through which the individual traits of an organism are passed on from one generation to the next .
22 Mistakes and ignorance can be handed on from one generation to another , habit can blind , and tradition can bind .
23 In essence , culture is a distinctive way of life of a people , not biologically transmitted but learned behaviour that is passed on from one generation to the next , evolving and changing over time .
24 It 's a sort of passed on from one generation to the next and it is you know , you will see people , hear people talking about it as if it was yesterday .
25 Yes , but when you have it on from one o'clock right through till six o'clock in the evening on I T V not you know , constantly .
26 A thunderstorm before the game had made the pitch very greasy , following on from two days of non-stop sunshine .
27 It looked , so to speak , like a follow on from other painting .
28 The causal thread that reaches from the perceived object to the perception and on from that to the overt activity of the perceiver symbolizes the ontological homogeneity of the world .
29 Then he moved on from that , into what he called Alan Ladd suits .
30 George was recording ‘ Under Lock And Key ’ , Steve was doing ‘ Eat ‘ Em And Smile ’ in David Lee Roth 's band ( with Billy Sheehan ) , Megadeth were doing ‘ Armored Saint ’ , and the list went on from that .
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