Example sentences of "[verb] on in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 2 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 5 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 6 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 7 | The loss of Acre in 1291 had a symbolic significance for all the nobilities of western Europe , but a sense of unfulfilled obligation still lingered on in the testamentary dispositions of Gascon nobles . |
| 8 | Both processes are going on in the two locales , sometimes with a single agency carrying out both simultaneously . |
| 9 | She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal . |
| 10 | Two minor ‘ quakes shook Yokohama during our conference — as if there were not enough earth-moving activity going on in the plenary sessions ! |
| 11 | ‘ Itsi ’ won his cap eighteen years ago , coming on in the dying seconds of an 8–1 victory over Hong Kong . |
| 12 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 13 | it 's so new to them that they 're bothering to cost it , but how did we go on in the older days ? |
| 14 | Who knew what strange rites went on in the savage mountains beyond Tirana , what musical instruments they played , where mad King Zog had ruled . |
| 15 | Captions on the screen can give brief information about what went on in the missing bits and how much time has elapsed . |
| 16 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | The mapping or transformation rules to convert the conceptual model in the form of entities , attributes and relationships , to a logical model which could be relational , hierarchical or network has already been touched on in the relevant sections . |
| 19 | He ran on in the latter stages , but never looked likely to justify heavy support in the betting market . |
| 20 | Then they too died as , too exhausted to fight any further , they were covered by a crust of snow which froze on in the bitter winds . |
| 21 | We will fight on in the civil courts . |