Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 2 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck , and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 3 | RIGHT The check chain fits on to an ordinary leash , by a circle as shown here . |
| 4 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 5 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 7 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 8 | The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level . |
| 9 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 10 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 11 | Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein |
| 12 | ( rather a lot of which goes on inside an internal combustion engine . ) |
| 13 | Today certain people will not go on the station after dark , so the past tragedy lingers on over an entire railway complex . |
| 14 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 15 | History rather suggests that the discipline needed for insurrection lingers on as an authoritative force after the revolution in a way that blocks the larger end of a socialism that advances opportunities for freedom and self-development through a true democracy of equals . |
| 16 | Don Johnson holds on to a chic Melanie Griffith ( above ) |
| 17 | Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely . |
| 18 | For our purposes , culture is simply a convenient term to describe the sum of learned knowledge and skills — including religion and language — that distinguishes one community from another and which , subject to the vagaries of innovation and change , passes on in a recognizable form from generation to generation . |
| 19 | A general survey of the whole span of Church history leads on to a second-level course which explores the growth and diversification of Christianity in three contexts ; the second century in the Roman Empire , early modern Europe and nineteenth-century Africa and America . |
| 20 | This leads on to a major guideline for all consequences : |
| 21 | This leads on to a third aspect — the redistributive effect over a person 's lifetime , rather than just in the current period . |
| 22 | This point leads on to a further problem in sampling — which is non-response . |
| 23 | This leads on to a further point . |
| 24 | Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible . |
| 25 | When the youngsters want to go outside and play they have to leave via the backdoor which opens on to a busy road . |
| 26 | Exquisitely furnished with antiques and fine paintings , it has impressive lounges and a bar which opens on to a large terrace where dancing can be arranged . |
| 27 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 28 | Having depicted the palace not just as a multitude of busy people and face-to-face relationships , but as an arrangement ( dispositio ) , an apparatus to be efficiently designed and maintained , Hincmar moves on to a second institution , the assembly . |
| 29 | Another is the dialectic , a pattern of movement which proceeds from a starting-point ( the thesis ) to another which stands over against it in opposition or contradiction ( the antithesis ) , and then moves on to a third stage in which the two are reconciled and reintegrated on a higher level ( the synthesis ) . |
| 30 | Nomad moves on to a larger site |