Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | These and other strange phenomena carried on throughout his teens and into his early twenties . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) might like to remember that in the polyester yarn sector , which is not covered by the question , there are anti-dumping suits going on , so we are pursuing the cases of which we are aware . |
| 3 | Technically , they are European institutions carrying on home-regulated investment business in the UK for the purposes of the Banking Co-ordination ( Second Council Directive ) Regulations 1992 ( the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) . |
| 4 | In this gap the outgoings of the company for its normal operations carry on . |
| 5 | In this gap the outgoings of the company for its normal operations carry on . |
| 6 | There was nothing to keep him here that could outweigh the thought of the possible conspiracies going on behind his back back home . |
| 7 | Precisely how the Minoan merchants carried on their trade is uncertain . |
| 8 | 8–12 There have been extensive improvements going on in Jura during the last two years . |
| 9 | But it must never be forgotten that the political , economic , cultural transformation of the world by European influences went on right down to 1945 and beyond . |
| 10 | The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver . |
| 11 | In order to identify those most at risk and encourage potential restorers from the public and private sectors to take on buildings in need of rescue , the Buildings At Risk Service has been set up . |
| 12 | In particular the government forces encountered problems in maintaining control of a town once rebel forces had been defeated ; when armed units moved on to another troubled area , rebels could regain control . |
| 13 | Herbs distributed about the garden mixed in with the general plantings will often supply that " surprise " quality that the old garden-landscape designers insisted on , as an aroma wafts through the air on a hot sunny day , or when a plant is brushed accidentally so that a spicy smell comes apparently out of nowhere . |
| 14 | Strong smell of burnt fingers going on . |
| 15 | Gareth 's eventual ambition is to become a freelance commercial artists taking on commissions for a living . |
| 16 | You know they , they ran , they took the nurses , because the nurses home was a mile or , was it a mile or a mile and a half or something from the hospital , they had this , they took them in the morning and then they took them at lunchtime and then all the different shifts coming on and off they took them , and they had the schools run as well . |
| 17 | We get told that erm in the early times there was quite a bit of social activities going on , lots of clubs and things |
| 18 | Traditional circumpolar cultures live on little except animal fare , whilst some of the planet 's largest populations are vegetarian . |
| 19 | Do you want to see humanity kill itself off because of its inability to rear improved generations to follow on ? ’ |
| 20 | Sandeep , used only to life in a Bombay high-rise , is hypnotised by the daily rituals going on around him — his aunt rubbing oil into her black hair , his uncle retiring to the lavatory with an ashtray , a newspaper and a pair of reading glasses . |
| 21 | Railways , Spearman went on , had the power to break local strikes , as they had done in a recent coal strike in the United States , and the operating officers and freight-yard superintendents took on a military-style power . |
| 22 | This sometimes led to productive and satisfactory change ; but in some classrooms it resulted in confusion as procedures became separated from their underlying objectives , and as teachers strove to balance the conflicting demands of a mixture of well-tried and untried practices , of a wide variety of grouping strategies , and of many different activities going on simultaneously in their classrooms . |
| 23 | Finally , an audit trail maintains a record of all the network activity , including unsuccessful illicit attempts to log on or access restricted files or devices . |
| 24 | Apart from the system of secret diplomacy under his personal control which he developed after 1745 and which served merely to complicate and frustrate the foreign policies carried on by his ministers through regular channels , he took little interest in the machinery of government . |
| 25 | However , the Oriental assault on British clubs goes on . |
| 26 | British opportunities to pass on their views were enhanced when Sir David Ormsby-Gore ( later Lord Harlech ) became the British ambassador in Washington . |
| 27 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 28 | Mansell is 39 — but top drivers carry on into their 50's in the 16-race Indy series that , oddly , kicks off in Surfer 's Paradise , Australia . |
| 29 | It is made from presses steel , which is then epoxy coated for a durable finish , and has rubber treads bonded on for step security . |
| 30 | She was almost shouting but it was the week before Christmas and we were in the Three Tuns and there were at least six different parties going on , so nobody noticed . |