Example sentences of "[verb] on [subord] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In education , since 1979 the percentage of pupils staying on until the fifth year has increased from 35 per cent . |
| 7 | I felt a migraine coming on as the old girl began to wail and Zylpha screamed a torrent of abuse . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The work went on until the last marcher had been patched up . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 12 | First , it clearly focuses on where the physical symptoms of the problem are . |
| 13 | And now the fat bellies in the cities are carrying on where the white folk left off . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | This means that a decision must be taken on whether the in-use setting can be recreated in the studio or whether the photography should be done on location . |
| 18 | When discussing terms with your employer , you may be asked to consider whether you prefer a fixed-term agreement or a ‘ rolling ’ contract , ie one which rolls on until the required period of notice is given . |
| 19 | Ken Tyson recreates the advanced projects that Japan was working on before the atomic bombs brought World War Two to a close . |