Example sentences of "be [verb] on in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All contain the same genes , although different genes will be turned on in the different specialist cells . |
| 4 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 5 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |