Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] on [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Sunderland will have to wait a little longer before knowing whether to turn left or right on to the M25 .
2 There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground .
3 What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … .
4 Computer graphics can produce an image in a variety of ways , on a video screen , for example , or directly on to film .
5 Its specially designed mechanism can be attached either to the back of the bed or directly on to the wall .
6 Pipe on to paper , if you need to allow the design to dry before being transferred to the cake , or directly on to the cake if this is applicable , for instance if the run-out is to lie flat .
7 Can I make a suggestion about , probably not relevant to B T but might be relevant to the other continuous jobs , if like health care it nearly follows the procedure that you 've got at the moment and that is that in that procedure you have somewhere a line that says that your continuous jobs at the beginning of the job , or early on in the job , in the master job file there is put a note of which parts of the procedure apply and which parts do n't , or how filing is done , or whatever bit is different , which allows you the flexibility for each job to have it 's own , to have it 's own small procedure that forms part of the master job file , that says this is how this one is done , if those differences are very small .
8 If , if you look in your books page one seven seven , you 'll see a beautifully illustrated instruction on how to do it , which you can refer to yourself this evening or later on in the course if you forget but I 'm now gon na show you how to do one as well , you , if you want to know it 's there for you to look up you take the bandage and fold it into your narrow fold band and put it round your leg , you 've got something to tie a reef knot round , okay ? if you know how to do a reef knot already fine , just do it , if you do n't , follow instructions .
9 Many pupils may object that they find this kind of culture to be alien and puzzling at first since this is a non-exam course there is opportunity for pupils to mark time without any serious results but to achieve personal development gradually or late on in the course at an individual pace .
10 The advantage of using a switch which is either completely off or completely on over any form of variable resistance as in linear supplies , is that no power is dissipated in this sort of control element , whatever the load requirements are or whatever the voltage developed across the switch happens to be .
11 The colours were very subdued , very , very sombre , erm dove greys , muted blues , nothing bright at all , now this was n't because of dyes , although later on in the eighteen-sixties when chemical dyes really took off , the colours were correspondingly garish and bright .
12 The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen .
13 Only the sun goes silently and endlessly on with the lark 's song .
14 We had a phone call erm a year or two ago Mrs did a lot of work on this with petition 's and so on about the costs of pensioner 's for animal treatment , because the P D S A no longer operates in Harlow and the nearest one I think is Edmonton , which makes it impossible .
15 And this is a Sotino which is a quality brand in those days , I , I , do n't know if it still is , I assume it is , erm , which was not advertised at all , and although the Rolex 's and so on in this world have been heavily advertised as they came on the market , Sotino 's never really was , so my father had a struggle I suspect selling .
16 So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went !
17 For one thing , it ignores the social reality that teenage sexual experience is extremely common amongst young people ; pupils may well appreciate the benefits of stable family life and so on without perceiving any need to desist from their sexual activity .
18 This should leave enough space to program any remaining technique and so on without overflowing the memory .
19 ( f ) John pulls out drawers , and so on at 7am ( lines 26 and 27 ) .
20 A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat .
21 I think it 's been successful in trying to break down barriers a bit , and I think at least some of the representatives erm the head boy and girl and deputy head boy and girl at Priory School and some of the people from Rings School and so on at least have contact now on a fairly regular basis with local councillors , local council officials and so on .
22 Nine or ten years later , it is stripped again , and so on for more than 150 years .
23 And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is .
24 And so on for three hours on one piece of celery and a prune wrapped in bacon .
25 This lady also started a shop for shoes , leotards and so on for other classes , so soon I added pink and white to my colours , with the occasional black one as well .
26 And so on for several more lines , and all to say he meant to finish with Claire , even though she was expecting his child .
27 The women who leave Seascale in 1950 will produce approximately a×b×27 children , as will those who leave in 1951 , and so on for 14 years .
28 And so on for the whole island .
29 And so on for the whole island .
30 Woodlands , however , can be at some distance , as people will only need to fetch firewood , poles , and so on for tools and fencing , or timber for construction , periodically .
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