Example sentences of "[vb past] on [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This led in Britain to the setting up the Meteorological Office under Captain FitzRoy , formerly of HMS Beagle , who went on to make the first weather forecasts in Britain . |
| 32 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
| 33 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 34 | After defeating Pam at the 19th to win the Scottish , she went on to bag the Australian Girls ' title and the British Stroke-Play Championship . |
| 35 | In 1893 , when American celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus ( a year late ) , the robber barons who banded together to support the Chicago exhibition went on to found the American Academy in Rome . |
| 36 | After basic religious toleration was conceded in 1689 , the dissenters turned their back once and for all on Anglicanism and went on to develop the distinctive spirituality which was to play so dynamic a role in the revolutionary social and economic changes of the next century . |
| 37 | The struggle therefore went on to keep the Unionist press alive , and in 1912 and 1913 both Aitken and Northcliffe stood by the party and gave valuable support in their papers . |
| 38 | as if looking for a quarrel he went on to exaggerate the uncompromising nature of his position . |
| 39 | ‘ Very uncomfortable , I expect , ’ said Fenella and went on studying the black stone buildings to see if there was a small , partly hidden door that they might use to get inside . |
| 40 | Constantinides went on to discuss the permanent disability rate of 18.6–20 per 100 000 children per annum following accidents ( road accidents , recreational accidents , and burns and scalds ) , and the type of disability included brain damage ; deformity ; loss of mobility ; scarring ; and sensory loss mainly due to eye injuries . |
| 41 | He went on to discuss the finer points of his work : Americans take the deepest divots , he said , the Japanese no divots at all . |
| 42 | Lord Morton went on to construe the statutory terms extremely narrowly as permitting challenge only if express statutory requirements were violated . |
| 43 | Marek went on to tell the same story as Tait had narrated to Blanche the day before in the circling car — of a brave man who was betrayed , tortured , castrated and shot . |
| 44 | He won the NIBA singles championship , and went on to become the first Parks player to lift the coveted Irish title since Balmoral 's Alan McMullan in 1987 . |
| 45 | He went on to become the first director of the National Monuments Record , the body that catalogues the most important buildings in country . |
| 46 | Maybe despite or because of failing ‘ O ’ levels she went on to become the first woman engineer at her college because her earlier setbacks had made her determined to prove that she could succeed . |
| 47 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 48 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 49 | The musical forms that emerged out of the American black experience — gospel , blues , jazz initially ; soul , funk , rock'n'roll , R&B , reggae , rap , House eventually — went on to become the dominant repertoire of popular music throughout the world , no matter how watered down . |
| 50 | She went on to become the British Champion in 1914 , 1920 , 1921 and 1926 and English Champion in 1914 and 1919 . |
| 51 | Lisboa went on to become the leading soccer club of the day and eventually changed its name to Benfica , the club renowned today in world soccer . |
| 52 | She had one brother , John , who went on to become the High Commissioner in Cyprus . |
| 53 | He went on to criticize the Holy Office for acting as judge and jury when it condemned theologians without giving them an opportunity to know what they were accused of , or of responding . |
| 54 | Lauda , however , went on to win the first race of the season as Hunt crashed out on lap 33 . |
| 55 | She subsequently went on to win the overall UK Livewire title in London . |
| 56 | Mario went on to win the next race at the Glen and the championship by a handsome margin , with Ronnie posthumously second . |
| 57 | Glasgow gangster Frank Murphy changed his name to Frank Earn and went on to win the Scottish Welterweight Boxing Championship , but he was the exception . |
| 58 | Grosvenor went on to win the short corner count 12–2 . |
| 59 | Dr Mason went on to attack the Labour administration 's decision to shut the Faskally , Fornethy , Seafield and St Columba 's centres to save £1 million . |
| 60 | She went on to attack the Colonial Office on the ‘ hut tax ’ , and became a Fellow of the Anthropological Institute in 1898 . |