Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This one point alone has almost certainly caused many novice flyers to struggle on with an unmanageable model which could easily be completely transformed by correct adjustment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ultimately , de Gaulle 's attempt to hold on to the symbolic status bestowed by 18 June and the war proved his undoing . |
| 6 | I am well aware of the anxiety of people in Plymouth to get on with the whole business of the release and development of Ministry of Defence land . |
| 7 | If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place . |
| 8 | Those who care for ‘ ordinary ’ old people learn much about the courage and competence which so many display ; they discover that it is their ordinariness which is remarkable — their determination to carry on with the daily business of life , often in the face of considerable difficulties . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |
| 11 | and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic |
| 12 | Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag . |
| 13 | There are some who would question his recording of details on site suggesting that in his eagerness to move on to the next find he may neglect to tidy up the details left behind . |
| 14 | Directly underneath was the tempter to move on to the special four-page pull-out section with the banner headline SAVAGE IN MY BED . |
| 15 | Over time she has retained her ideological commitment , and the shortcomings as well as the successes of her government record are invoked by her as reasons to press on with the original strategy . |
| 16 | Every few blocks , a building or two had been gutted , walls standing , roofs collapsed , as if random artillery shelling had taken out the commercial heart of the city , leaving a few lucky businesses to struggle on until the next round . |
| 17 | THE pathetic objections voiced by the Lords to allowing peerages to pass on through the female line really rammed home to me how outmoded this institution is . |
| 18 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 19 | BTR 's headquarters leaves decentralised management teams to get on with the day-to-day job of running each business . |
| 20 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 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 | If both sides are affected collapse of the lateral masses allows the skull to descend on to the cervical spine and the odontoid to enter the foramen magnum . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As AT&T 's Bob Kavner , soon to be USL 's erstwhile chairman , says Novell 's purchase takes the emotions out , leaving people to get on to the real issues . |
| 25 | He wanted people to get on with the urgent business of living the good life set out in the Eightfold Path , and not to waste time or energy in speculation and debate . |
| 26 | When Karpov fought back to near equality after a difficult opening in Thursday 's play , commentators were all expecting the game to drag on towards a turgid draw , but as both players came into time-trouble , Yusupov played a remarkable piece sacrifice to expose Karpov 's king . |
| 27 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 28 | ERA is one of more than 50 new ales to come on to the Scottish market in the past year . |
| 29 | Around 300 yards past the car park and toilet area you pass through a wide kissing gate to get on to the old railway track . |
| 30 | The first firm to move on to the revamped Southwich Yard , now part of a 110-acre enterprise park , at Sunderland will be the tunnelling equipment manufacturer Herrenknecht International , the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation said . |