Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation . |
| 2 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 3 | The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm . |
| 4 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 5 | To have a dual occupation was an ancient way of life that lingered on in this area well into the Victorian period . |
| 6 | After pitching their tents , the travellers held a rave party that went on for 3 days and nights . |
| 7 | For all that , there was not much that went on in this household that Radulfus did not know . |
| 8 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 9 | It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells . |
| 10 | A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data . |
| 11 | These are then collected , distilled and passed on to social workers and others in basic texts , training manuals , child abuse courses and conferences ( cf Moore , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | Barnard considered that the energy introduced into the homoeopathic potency during the succussion process stabilized the arrangement of the water polymers and that it was these shape-specific polymers which were built up and passed on from one potency to the next . |
| 13 | Ray Warren left soon after and moved on to higher things , no doubt with some relief . |
| 14 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 15 | After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation . |
| 16 | Mr Clarke is expected to propose substantial changes in its composition and working methods to overcome SNP claims that the convention is Labour-dominated and bent on excluding nationalist arguments for independence . |
| 17 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 18 | Robert was a replacement in the Currie Cup final and came on for young Johan Roux in the second half . |
| 19 | He coaxed the Citation through the downwind leg and turned on to final runway heading , some five miles out from the airport . |
| 20 | We worked alone so that we could choose the good weather on my off duty days , but the communal gangs were no fair weather workers and pressed on under any conditions . |
| 21 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 22 | I put my forehead against it and hung on with both hands . |
| 23 | Wood changed the compass course and flew on for 20 minutes , but their next bearing from Darwin indicated that they were even further north of track . |
| 24 | Act and went on to other employment and trade union legislation . |
| 25 | He supervised several Rhodes scholars , who obtained their doctorates and went on to successful careers . |
| 26 | This started at about midday and went on until late afternoon , when everyone was so full of food that they could hardly move . |
| 27 | Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support . |
| 28 | Where the main constructive waves are swell waves which may have been generated hundreds and even thousands of kilometres away and travelled on as free waves , it is quite likely that the local resultant wind has a far smaller part in the orientation of coastal forms . |
| 29 | At 75 years of age also decided it was time to take things a little easier and retired on after 13 years with the company . |
| 30 | They rejected bananas and held on to buttoned coats . |