Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being . |
| 2 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 3 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 4 | Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game . |
| 5 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 6 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 7 | And did you brothers stay on in the little cottage ? |
| 8 | The 112-bhp 1.6-litre engine lives on in the entry-level £10,298 Lantra GLSi . |
| 9 | Members agree that proposal continue on in the ideal although it was commendable to set high standards . |
| 10 | Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | there is some change going on in the rural economy and perhaps he does want to interpret it as er a revolution which the communists can actually get involved in so he 's writing his paper and saying look , this is happening it may not be a rel revolution , but it |
| 13 | Example 2:13 Right to display advertisement permitted by regulations The right to display in and on the demised property any advertisement permitted to be displayed without the express consent of the local planning authority by virtue of the Town and Country Planning ( Control of Advertisements ) Regulations 1992 or any modification or replacement thereof Example 2:14 Right to display advertisement in prescribed form The right to display on the front door of the demised property a name plate not exceeding in area and advertising the business carried on in the demised property and to display the name or style of that business on the name board situated in the entrance hall of the building of which the demised property forms part with letters provided by the landlord |
| 14 | Back in time for our encore at Wembley ( well , after six nights , you do tend to get a bit lax , and anyway , the tapes went on in the right order and the dry ice was great ) . |
| 15 | European Alexandria lingers on in the Italianate architecture , the long lines of balconies along the seafront , in the old shop signs in French and Arabic , in the Greek cafes like Trianon 's and Pastroudis with their air of idleness and neglect , and in old-fashioned pensions like the Hotel Normandie . |
| 16 | A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down . |
| 17 | of CCA comments , ‘ I do not think that this experiment is going to substitute and take the place of several experiments going on in the Third World . |
| 18 | The other programme was the field theory initiated by Faraday , according to which electrical phenomena can be explained in terms of actions going on in the medium surrounding electrified bodies and electric circuits , rather than in terms of the behaviour of a substance within them . |
| 19 | Lights went on in the darkened boardroom . |
| 20 | In the Mala Strana , the secretaries and the artists , the nurses and the busmen return to their apartments , the lights go on in the high windows , the courtyard below us is filling up with the smells of food and voices discussing — what ? |
| 21 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There was even the same poker game going on in the back room , a game I could n't get in on but which I could glimpse every time the same barmaid took refills through . |
| 24 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
| 25 | It was also based on the even worse assumption that the actual level of income support in April 1990 was sufficient for people to live on in the first place . |
| 26 | So Benn scraped on in the seventh of seven places . |
| 27 | These activities went on in the Great Workshop , where the looms were installed . |
| 28 | His voice wandered on in the dull , matter-of-fact tones of someone describing his own environment . |
| 29 | I 'd watched Motown and the blues catch on in the Sixties and the roots of all that stuff was laid in the Forties , so the funk was always going to catch on and stay . |
| 30 | Yes , and an astute decision by Milton 's manager , Keith Stocks , saw substitute Brian Marlan brought on in the sixty eighth minute and two minutes later he was all smiles as he headed home Nigel Mott 's cross to break the deadlock . |