Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on in the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 6 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 7 | I then went on in the proper sequence to the pitch control : " And this reduces the pitch . " |
| 8 | It sometimes comes on in the open air . |
| 9 | 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 . |