Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers . |
| 2 | Matches and trophies carried on after the outbreak of war in August 1914 , although the Autumn Meeting in October was almost cancelled . |
| 3 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 4 | ( ) If it appears to the Secretary of State — ( a ) that the financial affairs of any institution within the higher education sector have been or are being mismanaged ; or ( b ) that , in consequence of matters outwith the control of such an institution , it is likely that the financial position of the institution will be significantly adversely affected , he may , after consulting the Council and the institution , give such directions to the Council about the provision of financial support in respect of the activities carried on by the institution as he considers are necessary or expedient by reason of the mismanagement or , as the case may be , adverse effect on the institution 's financial position . ' . |
| 5 | Schools got on with the business of education . |
| 6 | What do the journalists type on at the Post ? ’ |
| 7 | The council 's ruling Labour group split on the issue , after leading opponents of the scheme claimed it would increase violence with drinkers spilling on to the streets at exactly the same time . |
| 8 | This Sunday the world-wide Fun for Nature 's Walk for the Rain Forest is taking place , and that there are three hundred walks going on throughout the country , four of them are in Oxfordshire , and Sue May is , is concentrating on the walks at Burford Wildlife Park and also the one at Banbury . |
| 9 | During the final stages of an attack the weapon 's sensors lock on to the target ship 's radar or sonar signals and the Telemine homes in on them . |
| 10 | After last season 's floppy-hatted waifs , this time around models were given hair styles which looked like a punk reworking of a clipped poodle ; make-up featured a spatter of sequin shapes glued on around the eyes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver . |
| 13 | Both cars spun on to the grass outfield , Senna 's McLaren minus its left front wheel and Mansell 's car damaged badly enough to ensure his retirement . |
| 14 | GRAHAM Gooch will have plenty of shoulders to lean on during the tour of India . |
| 15 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 16 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 17 | The fiery Scot was first to react when two supporters ran on to The Dell to stage an injury-time protest . |
| 18 | About 100 fans from two sections of the ground allocated to away fans ran on to the pitch after Cardiff took a 2–1 lead . |
| 19 | Furious Saints fans ran on to the pitch in anger just before the final whistle as their team headed for a 2–1 defeat by QPR . |
| 20 | A large number of jubilant Boro fans ran on to the pitch to congratulate Pollock , a gesture which is now a criminal offence . |
| 21 | But the variable of interest may of course genuinely swing around abruptly ; the monthly count of unemployed people rises very sharply when school-leavers come on to the register , for example . |
| 22 | The counter-argument is that seasonal adjustment will itself take care of much of the distortion ( as it will eliminate the predictable seasonal rise in unemployment in July and August when school-leavers come on to the register ) . |
| 23 | It was all over in bloody , yelling minutes , and the Scots swept on into the encampment itself . |
| 24 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 25 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 26 | About 6,000 silk rosettes have to be made next , and these are stitched on the inside and outside of the garland before forty-eight red , white and blue ribbons with bells sewn on to the ends are attached . |
| 27 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 28 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 29 | We wo n't be able to nod off as news presenters drone on about the world 's woes and mother-in-laws ring with the latest family crisis . |
| 30 | His appetite whetted by this auction , he was a natural target for Sotheby 's when Irises came on to the market . |