Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’ |
| 2 | With luck , these two new Windows-based spreadsheets should help Lotus hang on to the 40% of the market it currently controls . |
| 3 | Could n't you hang on till the end of the season ? ’ |
| 4 | The 1896 discovery by Eduard Buchner ( 1860–1917 ) that fermentation could carry on in the absence of living cells seemed like the final nail in the coffin . |
| 5 | ‘ We are not going to stop our style of play , we are a free-running side who want to score tries and even if we come unstuck against good sides with well-organised defences we will still keep on with the kind of game which we know pleases the fans . ’ |
| 6 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 7 | The multi-well dishes will fit on to the stage of a binocular dissecting microscope and if angled mouth pipettes are constructed the entire procedure can be viewed down the microscope . |
| 8 | Let's move on to a recap of tonight 's main stories . |
| 9 | Having discussed the construction of a melody 's smallest essential part — the initial phrase — we can move on to the building of complete themes . |
| 10 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 11 | Perhaps we could now move on to the question of Sir Conrad 's recent involvement in the club 's affairs ? ’ |
| 12 | There are other sums of money that you might be entitled to , too , before we can move on to the business of budgeting . |
| 13 | Having discussed coloured water and clear water briefly let us move on to the reality of the situation as we find it when we arrive for a session . |
| 14 | This means it could hold on with a couple of limbs whilst feeding with the others . |
| 15 | From the behavioural point of view , the principal male characteristic is sadistic sexual egoism , since is it clear that only the male who is capable of driving off his rivals can hold on to the females of the breeding group . |
| 16 | Can we go on to the minutes of the committee meeting of sixth December then . |
| 17 | It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years . |
| 18 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
| 19 | Did Tolkien go on from the exploitation of occasional scenes to the manipulation of plot , the creation of recognisably symbolic characters , the thing the TLS reviewer asked for so plaintively , ‘ a clear message for the modern world ’ ? |
| 20 | I could however moan on about the likelihood of anyone ever wanting to listen to this collection straight through at one sitting , or that Miss Battle could have done rather more in the way of characterising each aria ( and her diction is also hardly crystal clear ) . |
| 21 | The visitor can pass on without an inkling of these rare events , and in walking through the church pass over the Teutonic bones of those ancients . |
| 22 | This will lead on to a discussion of an action-based theory of mentality , the theory developed by the Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget , and then to some discussion of mental development itself . |
| 23 | Alternatively , if language problems are seen in terms of the child 's limited understanding of the rule system , this , in turn , might lead on to a programme of intervention designed to teach the child more about the rules assumed to underlie language use . |
| 24 | But generational time can gradually lead on to an appreciation of dates and time-lines . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher called the move ‘ a major step in the right direction … we hope it will lead on to the release of Nelson Mandela and open the way for negotiations for a new constitution for South Africa ’ . |
| 26 | " What is it made of ? " and " How was it made ? " are far better starting points and can lead on to the extraction of a great deal of information about the people and the society that produced it . |
| 27 | The question , as one senior American diplomat says , is whether the Somalis are prepared for a UN trusteeship in all but name that may drag on towards the end of this century . |
| 28 | How did you get on with the rest of it ? |
| 29 | Now though I 've got to just get on with the rest of my life |
| 30 | The accident happened two years ago — the victims families say it 's time the insurers paid up , so they can get on with the rest of their lives . |