Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] on [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the late 1980s Bluetts agreed to a mangement buyout and capital investment but the firm 's inability to meet the cost of the rent on its new premises opposite Claridge 's Hotel , and the slackness of trade as perceived by Chesfield , has meant that they are no longer willing to go on supporting the company . |
2 | And so they were prepared to go on taking the punishment , taking the cost because their objectives were , ha had a different scale of value to the objectives sought by the United States . |
3 | And so they were prepared to go on taking the punishment , taking the cost because their objectives were , ha had a different scale of value to the objectives sought by the United States . |
4 | Some were gentlemen who felt strongly , like his lordship himself , that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over . |
5 | It is unbecoming to go on hating an enemy like this once a conflict is over . |
6 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
7 | Jim described it as a ‘ user friendly ’ locomotive , it is possible to keep on using the machine continuously without having to take it out of service for maintenance . |
8 | You would not , for instance , had he had his way , have been able to go on running the provender committee in the disgraceful way you did . ’ |
9 | Say whether you will be happy to go on eating the product now that you are more aware of what it contains . |