Example sentences of "on in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our fifth type must therefore be the traditionalist , for whom it is a pleasure to find the past living on in the present . |
| 2 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 3 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 4 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 5 | ‘ What am I supposed to live on in the meantime ? ’ |
| 6 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 7 | What is controversial about functionalism is its claim that we are going to be able to make significant generalizations about behaviour only if we think about what is going on in the brain at a particular level of description . |
| 8 | I have no quarrel with Searle 's claim that ‘ mental phenomena are caused by processes going on in the brain ’ . |
| 9 | Later on in the article he repeats this ; ie. ‘ not only does the tenon need to be pretty much where it needs to be relative to the thickness of the wood . ’ |
| 10 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 11 | In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin . |
| 12 | The reader is both astonished and utterly convinced , as he is later on in the interview when Porfiry plays the dangerous game of saying he has got no real proof , he 's going on hunch and ‘ psychology ’ — so Raskolnikov had better confess . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm thinking of the sort of attitude that suggests the unemployed do too little to help themselves , that if only you have determination and drive you can get on in the world . ’ |
| 15 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 16 | ‘ Sorry to mention a critic 's name so early on in the proceedings . |
| 17 | Over lunch in the canteen , very early on in the field-work , the conversation turned to stress and the danger members of the RUC face . |
| 18 | However , later on in the conversation she said they very rarely encountered juvenile offenders from grammar school , most would be educationally subnormal or at least well below average . |
| 19 | There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening . |
| 20 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 21 | He stayed on in the room but there was nothing he could do but withdraw . |
| 22 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 23 | I put them on in the afternoon ; my mother became very silent . |
| 24 | Peter Brock and Andy Rouse fought back to fourth place , following an incorrect tyre choice and tardy pit stops early on in the race . |
| 25 | There 's a TV shop with all these tellies on in the window , and I stop a bit and watch . |
| 26 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 27 | THE Lawson affair rumbled on in the Commons yesterday with the Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , asking the Prime Minister why she did not ‘ tell the truth ’ when she was asked why the former Chancellor of the Exchequer resigned by television interviewer Brian Walden . |
| 28 | No , he asks you to please stay for supper and we 'll go on in the morning . |
| 29 | No , he asks you to please stay for supper and we 'll go on in the morning . |
| 30 | Doncaster staged it 's first meeting since the abandonment of the St Leger fixture but it was a disappointing turnout with a total of only 29 runners , which included a walk-over by Tebitto , who won £4,491 because of the defection of Tap On in the Sea Pigeon Handicap Hurdle . |