Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bishop Harris , who has welcomed me so warmly , has expressed his willingness to continue on until the end of the year whilst I complete my own duties in Westminster diocese . |
| 2 | As one , they turned to continue on around the side of the house , Hector racing along before them . |
| 3 | Part of the panel members is might be classed as partly walking wounded but endeavour to carry on during the course of the day , you will find out who 's the walking wounded . |
| 4 | During this period of numbness , people are perfectly able to carry on with the practicalities of living . |
| 5 | We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do . |
| 6 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 7 | I 'm not going to go on to the things of the brain because we are going to do them further down the list . |
| 8 | We 're going to go on to the effects of chilling and what damage does that do ? |
| 9 | How long are you going to go on with the farce of keeping this bloody lot in business ? " |
| 10 | He is encouraged to go on with the process of living ( line 60 ) and perhaps hints at compensation for suffering in an after-life . |
| 11 | I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family . |
| 12 | This phenomenon , which we call ‘ cognitive trial-and-error ’ , requires a deductive process to go on inside the mind of the animal without its actually trying different behaviours . |
| 13 | We 're just at the beginning of it and this is going to go on till the end of April or May now , it 'll be like this . |
| 14 | Hugo was smoking a thin cigarette through a long cloisonné holder which he now began to wave about , causing highly aromatic ash to fall on to the sleeve of his green velvet jacket . |
| 15 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 16 | They 've lived through history and know so much , which they 're certain to pass on to the rest of us . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the proposed stimuli are myth and folk song and , hopefully , these are meant to lead on to the poetry of Blake and Shakespeare . |
| 18 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |
| 19 | Labour , on return to power , decided to press on with the development of a new family allowance scheme , called ‘ child benefit ’ , designed to replace the older allowance , extended it to the first child in each family , and offset it against the abolition of tax allowances . |
| 20 | Strathclyde 's Labour group also agreed to press on with the closure of two primary schools , Castlehill in Prestwick , and Dalmuir in Clydebank . |
| 21 | Well it certainly is , and we think that we 've had an examin of our co , examination of the constitution , we 've made a number of changes , but the task for Labour now is to press on with the issues of looking at our policies , and making sure that our economic policy and our social policy a actually meets the changes that are out their in the world . |
| 22 | The Government are remiss to press on in the face of careful and constructive opposition , which has been voiced by experts from the county of Leicester and other parts of the country . |
| 23 | Teachers have constantly to buttonhole each other as they pass in the staffroom and tack extra things to do on to the bottom of each other 's already overlong agendas . |
| 24 | Er I 'd be fourteen in the June and we used to have to keep on till the end of the term which was August . |
| 25 | Defries , Johannsen , Ace and Daak had managed to climb on to the top of the pod 's nose . |
| 26 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 27 | One of the ‘ leaders ’ even managed to climb on to the roof of government buildings , where he desecrated the state flag . |
| 28 | Some countries like Malaysia have , however , managed to hang on to the advantages of being early recipients of such investments by virtue of their installed base of experienced workers who could help attract later entrants . |
| 29 | Some financial planners have worked out another loophole , telling their clients to hang on to the part of their income paid in company shares , because taxes on capital gains are unlikely to rise under President Clinton and may even fall . |
| 30 | However , I would like to hang on to the notion of homology in a qualified sense . |