Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 2 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
| 3 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 5 | They keep on going on in the negative sense and the bulldozing here , has got you digging a big hole , and you eventually fall into it . |
| 6 | We can assure the world that the spirit of wartime Liverpool still lives on in the young taxi drivers , news vendors , waiters , waitresses and the police . |
| 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 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 9 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 10 | Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’ |
| 11 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |
| 12 | She checked what she was saying and then went on in an altered tone . |
| 13 | She paused and then went on in the same proud tone she had used when she showed them the bathroom , ‘ Mr Evans is a very important man . |
| 14 | I then went on in the proper sequence to the pitch control : " And this reduces the pitch . " |
| 15 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 16 | It sometimes comes on in the open air . |
| 17 | It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful . |
| 18 | Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way . |
| 19 | I do not believe there is any absolute virtue in such openness , in fact , I think that education is ideally carried on in a shared form of life where there is agreement about fundamentals and attention can be concentrated on the task in hand . |
| 20 | Whether the Government are Labour or Conservative , the inspector ought to have the right to comment , on , for instance , funding and on what is currently going on in the Prime Minister 's county of Cambridgeshire , where there have been some very severe reductions . |