Example sentences of "move on [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 2 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 3 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 4 | We then moved on to the spiralling property prices in Oxford , the purchase price of the Parsons ' house compared to its current estimated value , the solicitor 's recent attic conversion , and so on and so forth . |
| 5 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 6 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 7 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 8 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
| 9 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 10 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 11 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 12 | The conversation moved on to the human habit of colour-mapping . |
| 13 | Setting men to guard both , Douglas and Ramsay moved on into the outer bailey , hardly able to believe their good fortune thus far . |
| 14 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 15 | But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century . |
| 16 | Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members . |
| 17 | But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East . |
| 18 | The Founders moved on to the next question . |
| 19 | And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Lewis meanwhile moved on to the Daily Mail , where till 1930 he wrote a column called ‘ At the Sign of the Blue Moon ’ . |
| 22 | More often , they simply died ; the after-dinner heart attack while slumbering in one of the club 's deep leather chairs was a popular way of moving on to the great gentleman 's club in the sky . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've only five horses here at the moment , ’ Tom said moving on to the first loose-box . |
| 24 | Seeing in black life nothing more than an answer to racism means moving on to the ideological circuit which makes us visible in two complementary roles — the problem and the victim . |
| 25 | Many users navigate these databases with the assistance of any available controlled indexing terms ; they may even search a related database with controlled index terms first , in order to identify some documents and refine their search strategy before moving on to the natural language of the full-text databases . |
| 26 | He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity . |
| 27 | Unlike the varied operations and sequences of the unique ‘ one-off ’ products of jobbing production , the products of batch production are dealt with systematically in lots , or batches , only moving on to the next operation , when each lot has been machined or processed in the current operation . |
| 28 | These characteristics lead to a generally well-controlled and efficient method of production , whose main disadvantage is the time-delay caused by the queueing effect of individual units waiting for the batch to be completed before moving on to the next operation . |
| 29 | Students should therefore be encouraged to debate the issues before moving on to the next question . |
| 30 | Er the very fact that we 're at our desks er for more than seventy percent of our time filling these forms in er prevents us from moving on to the next prisoner and going out and arresting more people for crime . |