Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er well Susan 's erm gone to , obviously gone on to senior school now er she 's , she went , she started this year . |
| 2 | The whole patrol drove to a position within about sixty miles of Bouerat , and there the raiding party all piled on to one truck which was to be driven close to the port by Hunter himself . |
| 3 | But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road . |
| 4 | Was ninety percent of the people there very law abiding and just got on with own lives , and ten percent that caused the problems it kept re kept sh showing its head because of these . |
| 5 | The conflict has already dragged on for five years ; thousands have died . |
| 6 | Supply landing operation already laid on to last detail with Mid . |
| 7 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 8 | Vauxhall just held on to second spot ahead of Rover with 24,376 sales to Rover 's 23,251 . |
| 9 | Logging is still carried on in some areas . |
| 10 | The hole stays the same size as the dog grows , but few of them disappear altogether and are usually operated on at some stage . |
| 11 | The Commissariat for War still hung on to 752 coaches ; the Commissariat for Health had no fewer than 2,718 , and was even demanding a further 1,200 . |
| 12 | In so far as fairness is used within the traditional adjudicative framework the balancing involved therein may be different in degree but not in kind to that which has always gone on within natural justice itself . |
| 13 | Once typed on to special paper , the copy could be pasted on to the boards and , with no need for hot metal , or skilled printers , was camera-ready . |
| 14 | It should perhaps , like type B hepatitis , be added to the list of diseases that are often or even usually passed on in this way . |
| 15 | In the case of muscle it seems that there is a master gene controlling the expression of all the main genes , known as myogenin and it is always switched on in mature muscle cells . |
| 16 | In their factory , so essential to the prosperity of Trazior — to its trade and supply routes forever preyed on by vicious nomads — the Valences lived their whole lives , many of them adapted by surgery to their specialised tasks . |
| 17 | Fig. 88 abjures pattern , making its effect entirely by the balance of light figures and dark ground ; while Euphronios in fig. 89 makes his patterns too in red-figure : two ways of integrating the picture still further with the pot , both carried on in later generations . |
| 18 | This nearly led on to another story , but as Chairman of the meeting , I decided to get some order into things ! |
| 19 | Castells has now moved on to new areas of research , one of these being new forms of communications technology and the threats and opportunities represented by such developments.3 Meanwhile , however , his emphasis on consumption set the tone for a very thriving area of urban sociology by later writers in this tradition . |
| 20 | And if memory serves ( what was she called , that girl who did the PR for Windscale , Sellafield I should say , and Aldershot FC ? ) , oh yes , Daphne Grierson , who has now moved on to greater things and is image adviser to Nigel Canada ( is that correct ? ) the teenage fiddle-player . |
| 21 | The 12-year-old has now moved on to Branksome School , but still keeps in close contact with Philip , who lives next door . |
| 22 | Our own sonar is now locked on to this device and the sonar room has suddenly become the focal centre of interest in the Kilcharran . |
| 23 | THE pastime of hurling plates around tavernas is now frowned on by Greek authorities . |
| 24 | The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes . |
| 25 | Tuberculosis spreads easily and it is often passed on from older members of the family to the children . |
| 26 | Socialization within the family and the educational system tends to inculcate an assumption that obedience to those in positions of authority is neutral and morally proper ; and the legitimacy of industrial management is routinely insisted on by religious dignitaries , politicians , judges , editors of newspapers and others with the ability to exert ideological influence . |
| 27 | That the document containing the statement was produced by the computer during a period over which the computer was used regularly to store or process information for the purposes of any activity regularly carried on over that period , whether for profit or not , by any body , whether corporate or not , or by any individual ; |
| 28 | Hall ( 1987 ) argues that most regulation is simply added on to existing frameworks ( often as the result of specific frauds or crises ) rather than building up new systems , and that the efficiency of regulation suffers as a result and costs escalate . |
| 29 | Proceedings invariably dragged on for eighteen months . |
| 30 | The industry is still stuffed with excess capacity , mostly taken on for Big Bang and the freak year of boom that followed ( until the 1987 crash ) . |