Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 2 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 3 | Yeah so we get one and the you 're going on to the next one . |
| 4 | We 're moving on to the next paper . |
| 5 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 6 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 7 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry , I 'm moving on to the next paper . |
| 9 | And that 's an arrangement which will be carrying on over the next few years . |
| 10 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 11 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 12 | Hence , governments interested in reducing these disparities have introduced various taxes on large wealth holders , directed in particular at reducing the extent to which large accumulations of wealth can be passed on to the next generation . |
| 13 | That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools . |
| 14 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 15 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 16 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 17 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 18 | Only a proportion of these are passed on to the next stage of conscious analysis . |
| 19 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 20 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 21 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 22 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 23 | The anti-violence lobby resulted in a lot of romantic schmaltz being grafted on to the fifth series . |
| 24 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 25 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |
| 26 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 27 | The headstock is scarfed on behind the first fret ( as , in fact , were those on original Goodfellow basses ) . |
| 28 | Fact is , I do n't want them to see what 's going on in the next few hours . |
| 29 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
| 30 | This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza . |