Example sentences of "[verb] on in a " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( 3 ) In other words , although farm modernisation policies have actively encouraged non-viable or older farmers to retire from farming , many in the poorer areas have not done so , living on in a traditional way for extremely low returns . |
| 32 | For our purposes , culture is simply a convenient term to describe the sum of learned knowledge and skills — including religion and language — that distinguishes one community from another and which , subject to the vagaries of innovation and change , passes on in a recognizable form from generation to generation . |
| 33 | For three days , while Asmar lingered on in a Beirut hospital , Coleman stayed in the apartment and slept with a gun under his pillow . |
| 34 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 35 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |
| 36 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 37 | For a time they trudged on in a silence punctuated by occasional reminiscences of the film . |
| 38 | Compare Auntie 's " Him and his women " ( a fine , natural contour ) with her That is the sort of weak politeness ' just afterwards , where the thought is dwelt on in a manner quite foreign to real life ; or the inane canonic whining of the Nieces ( not perhaps Britten 's most successful creations ) with Balstrode 's " D' you think we should stop our storm for such as you ? " |
| 39 | Mr Annesley said his senior officers were ‘ rigorously assisting ’ Mr Stevens , while Mr Brooke said the investigation was going on in a ‘ thoroughly effective ’ way . |
| 40 | Mr Kinnock 's voice was choked with emotion as , refusing to concede defeat , he said : ‘ Even now as the recounts are going on in a very large number of seats the results of this election is not decided . ’ |
| 41 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 42 | I do n't believe that you have any idea of what 's really going on in a country or culture until you live there . |
| 43 | How do people arrive at conclusions about what is going on in a particular instance ? |
| 44 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 45 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
| 46 | Anyone who imagines that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer could , wholly independently , determine interest rates here without considering what was going on in a Europe with a single currency , with all the other member countries belonging to it , is totally wrong . |
| 47 | On May 8 Sami Abdul-Rahman , a member of the delegation [ see p. 38127 ] , said that " the talks [ were ] going on in a positive spirit " , although questions relating to international guarantees for an accord and Kurdish control over the oil-producing town of Kirkuk remained unresolved . |
| 48 | Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful . |
| 49 | But the real fun is going on in a nearby barn with pumpkin lanterns . |
| 50 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 51 | Best of all is Donald Maxwell , marvellously sinister as the hunchback Prime Minister , Leander , sidling on in a way to chill the blood . |
| 52 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 53 | getting fed up Okay just to finish up now , because we 're gon na be moving on in a minute . |
| 54 | The burgesses of the ‘ husband town ’ allocated such divisions on behalf of the Crown , the arable land being measured to assess its user 's liability for military service : a ‘ husbandland ’ was the area of ploughland sufficient to provide a man with a living that could afford him a horse and harness when called on in a Border emergency . |
| 55 | Jack will be staying on in a consultative position until early next year to help his successor through the opening months of his term . |
| 56 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 57 | There 's a school of thought that Hanley should be given a spot on the bench and brought on in a game-breaking role . |
| 58 | Threatened with the loss of the field , it found a local landowner who was willing to give land just outside the village to build on in a ‘ land swap ’ and approached the council . |
| 59 | For years he had plodded on in a series of jobs on building sites — and at one stage he even played football as a semi-professional in Ireland . |
| 60 | Let mummy just watch the news then I think Playbus is coming on in a moment . |