Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 2 | Polio , apparently passed on from a human epidemic in the region , had already reduced their numbers . |
| 3 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 4 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 5 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
| 6 | Often , nowadays , he did n't have to do it ; relatives might live in different parts of the country , and usually they were best called on by a uniformed man . |
| 7 | A " slip " , a temporary recourse to the mood-altering substance or behaviour , may or may not lead on to a full-scale relapse . |
| 8 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 9 | There was a window in her bedroom , but it just looked on to a tiny area and did n't let in much light . |
| 10 | The voice-parts of the opening ‘ Domine ad adjuvandum ’ are largely composed on to a transposed version of the preludial ‘ toccata ’ a true Shakespearian ‘ tucket ’ of Orfeo . |
| 11 | It was like hanging on to a wriggly eel . |
| 12 | Gum tabs ( usually stuck on with a price-marking gun ) |
| 13 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 14 | It says right get on to a new line . |
| 15 | Similarly , some couples assiduously hang on to a sexual problem as a defence against facing up to a much wider problem in their marriage . |
| 16 | But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency . |
| 17 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 18 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 19 | Life here plays on like a distant , steady backbeat to the often hollow din of modern America caught in the rituals of an election year . |
| 20 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 21 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck , and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 22 | Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’ |
| 23 | The view here gave on to a terraced garden within the walls . |
| 24 | I asked him , ‘ Have you got any old letters in the attic ? ’ and he said ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ , is his mildly amazed recall of this historian 's jackpot — one which he then capitalised on by a determined digging out of all the other surviving relatives , enabling the construction of the definitive Shrewsbury family tree in the book . |
| 25 | Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely . |
| 26 | This is then mapped on to a geometric domain which contains all the graphical description of the object in CAD terms . |
| 27 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |
| 28 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 29 | 45133 and 50015 will then move on for a short period to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before returning to Butterley . |
| 30 | Depression is sometimes brought on by a sudden change in one 's life , such as coming into a Home . |