Example sentences of "[verb] on [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the debate goes on and the political parties bid for votes and support , Leila , Fatima and Samira are still confined to the library . |
| 2 | The sun goes down , the racing goes on and the keenest fans keep watching . |
| 3 | By the end of the 1920's Miss Lintorn-Orman 's brand of Fascism had not caught on and the Bolshevik revolution in England , which it had been formed to combat , had ceased to be an event worth waiting for . |
| 4 | As the chief location of tin mining , conditions confirm that an abundance of cheap labour tended to stimulate industrial growth , although naturally mineral extraction has to be carried on where the workable reserves happen to be located , using imported labour if necessary , as , it would seem , was precisely what was done in Penwith . |
| 5 | That little girl had to struggle on because the flat rent had to be paid , she had to struggle on because she had a car , kids had to go to school , until she died . |
| 6 | Everyone knew this was going on but the vast profits involved generated a convenient blanket of economic hypocrisy . |
| 7 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 8 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 9 | If the Minister for Sport was on the Treasury Bench , I would ask him — instead , I ask all hon. Members and the country — what is going on when the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation puts his name and that of his organisation to a positive argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship in sport ? |
| 10 | Mann 's use of starkly contrasted black and white images , fully light subjects and opaque backgrounds , leaves the viewer with nowhere to focus on but the photographic subject . |
| 11 | As I walked on and the eerie crunch , crunch sounded behind me , I was seized with terror and took to my heels staggering blindly . ’ |
| 12 | Viewers will get a chance to see how little Derek gets on when the six-part £2 million London Weekend Television series hits the screen next month . |
| 13 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 14 | In education , since 1979 the percentage of pupils staying on until the fifth year has increased from 35 per cent . |
| 15 | I felt a migraine coming on as the old girl began to wail and Zylpha screamed a torrent of abuse . |
| 16 | As the 1980s rolled on and the earlier uncertainties about choosing the right task and the right organism receded , consensus began to develop around a small number of such models , with several different groups of researchers each arguing the case for their own new versions of god 's organism . |
| 17 | As the afternoon wore on and the muted tones and friendly manner of my hosts remained unaltered , we discussed religion , morality and many of the people I had mentioned in the manuscript . |
| 18 | Inevitably , Macmillan 's grip slipped as his premiership wore on and the economic problems ( pay pause and EEC membership ) crowded in . |
| 19 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 20 | Even so the showing of chrysom babies on brasses went on until the second quarter of the seventeenth century , the last three in the extant series being 1600,1606 and 1631 . |
| 21 | The work went on until the last marcher had been patched up . |
| 22 | It was strange , the comfort she got from Ben 's words , a sudden consoling warmth like finding an electric fire to turn on when the central heating failed in winter . |
| 23 | Well in War and Peace it 's a story of the er I mean there are many themes go on but the broad sweep of history is about the Napoleonic invasion of Russia and the way the Russians defended themselves against the French armies . |
| 24 | Mrs Stych 's mind wandered as the voices droned on and the current film at the local drive-in cinema was condemned . |
| 25 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 26 | First , it clearly focuses on where the physical symptoms of the problem are . |
| 27 | And now the fat bellies in the cities are carrying on where the white folk left off . |
| 28 | If , for example , a client discloses to a solicitor , in confidence , the fact that a child is being abused by another person , this information can only be passed on if the public interest in protecting children from serious harm outweighs the public interest in maintaining confidentiality between solicitor and client . |
| 29 | Higher levels of language can not be started on until the syntactic processing is complete , since the relationships that they are concerned with are denoted by structural properties of the input . |
| 30 | ‘ Hamish ’ Hamilton , a Scot , had already spent six months on the island but had volunteered to stay on until the new squadron ( 185 ) was settled in . |