Example sentences of "on [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 2 | ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I … |
| 3 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 4 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 5 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 6 | We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof . |
| 7 | He held on desperately to the dead weight fish , but try as he might , he was unable to regain his feet . |
| 8 | High on the wall of my room , near the open window , waiting for the lights to come on , a gecko is clinging on hopefully to the knobbly plaster . |
| 9 | We move on now to the closing headlines . |
| 10 | Moving on now to the important thing , appointments , this is where can go to . |
| 11 | ‘ Aw they 'll be up to somethin' , nae doot , ’ Isa 's needles clicked and the paddle-wheels of the Jeannie Deans churned on remorselessly through the grey waters of the Clyde , ‘ Chunk … chunk … chunk … ’ |
| 12 | No sooner has it done so than another baby joins on behind in the same way and within a few seconds , the entire litter has formed a caravan behind their parent . |
| 13 | Which comes on really to the second thing . |
| 14 | In no time Leith was getting on famously at the new Massingham Engineering acquisition — which was apparently , for the moment , to keep its G Vasey Ltd name . |
| 15 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 16 | It was presented in a further long meeting , going on well into the early hours of the morning , when George Elvin , having conferred with several of his senior colleagues on my telephone , returned to say that they would accept the proposal . |
| 17 | The D R one A is currently an excellent er tactical reconnaissance aircraft , all weather , at night etcetera and er it will go on well into the next century so there 's no great hurry to make a decision er one of the first points has got ta be decided is whether we carry the reconnaissance equipment in a pod under the aircraft replacing some of the other weapons or whether we try to build it in and er but taking first things first we have to get the requirement sorted out . |
| 18 | However , Tom gets on well with the second chef , who shares his general outlook , and this sets the tone of the kitchen . |
| 19 | At dinner the undergraduate in his second year got on well with the ex-prime minister , which is a mark up to both sides . |
| 20 | He trusts me , we got on well in the old days . |
| 21 | The emotional and mental link tying the child to its mother is usually very powerful , and goes on well after the physical birth itself . |
| 22 | First the good news — with the All Blacks almost on our doorstep , there are parts of Welsh rugby which live on even after the mass suicide , on and off the field , of the past seven weeks . |
| 23 | Nisbet , with his first goal of the season , ultimately revived Rangers ' European ambitions and no matter how fortuitous his strike was , it may yet turn out to be of inestimable value to an Ibrox team who clung on bravely in the closing stages . |
| 24 | Work was also going on independently among the main groups of professional care staffs to determine the future pattern of psychiatry within the area . |
| 25 | May I move on please to the next paper ? |
| 26 | Now the reason for the five thousand reduction there is that there is traffic or there was traffic that previously er came up the A sixty one but then went along Follyfoot Road which is the road you 'll see on the plan which parallels the southern bypass , and that is why up that very short section er there was this reduction er which was heading for points to the east , which clearly went on then to the southern bypass . |
| 27 | Er , moving on then to the tabled items which should be placed L , marked L. |
| 28 | If we can move on then to the fourth page , item twenty one , it should prepared to move ? |
| 29 | A few crofting families clung on there until the 19th century but the island is now uninhabited . |
| 30 | When Victoria found the grit from the paths got into her sandals , Richard removed her shoes and socks and shook all the gravel out of them , folding her socks for her to put them on again in the special way that her nanny did . |