Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 2 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 3 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 4 | Somatostatin infusion ( Somatostatine UCB 250 µg/h ) was given to reduced pancreatic secretion and elective surgical intervention was decided on for the seventh day . |
| 5 | But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century . |
| 6 | The Founders moved on to the next question . |
| 7 | And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis . |
| 8 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 9 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 10 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 11 | As I recall it , I was a parcel , handed on to the next bloke at the end of the day . |
| 12 | The headstock is scarfed on behind the first fret ( as , in fact , were those on original Goodfellow basses ) . |
| 13 | ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 14 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 15 | This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza . |
| 16 | They walked away , and the exhibit , full of inertia and its own importance , continued to slide and pump long after they had walked on into the next display . |
| 17 | The work of the courts is touched on in the next chapter . |
| 18 | Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too , and left school : her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying — ‘ One 's treated like an adult , ’ and her daughter to do a foundation course in art . |
| 19 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 20 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 21 | Hence , governments interested in reducing these disparities have introduced various taxes on large wealth holders , directed in particular at reducing the extent to which large accumulations of wealth can be passed on to the next generation . |
| 22 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 23 | Then those same genes either get passed on to the next generation or they do n't . |
| 24 | This hatred builds up and is then passed on to the next generation . |
| 25 | Only a proportion of these are passed on to the next stage of conscious analysis . |
| 26 | While physicians advised sparing use of the ointment , the quacks prescribed it liberally to great effect and had usually passed on to the next town before the inevitable relapses and the not infrequent deaths — results of over-treatment — had occurred . |
| 27 | Sean was so astonished that he almost swallowed the paten as well as the host and Paddy , his face bright red as his hair , hurriedly passed on to the next communicant . |
| 28 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 29 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 30 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |