Example sentences of "[vb past] on from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate . |
| 2 | We got a letter , passed on from the Newcastle office this morning concerning a woman who wants to sell her bungalow . |
| 3 | Eventually I moved on from the blues , picking up on Ronnie Lane again , only by this time The Small Faces had become The Faces . |
| 4 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 5 | The society-s proposal to convert the church into dwellings followed on from the same sponsor 's conversion of a similar local and redundant Anglican church , St James 's , Knatchbull Road , Stockwell Park . |
| 6 | The ideas pioneered in many of the courses which followed on from the ABC document are now central to much of the thinking behind records of achievement . |
| 7 | Its basis followed on from the Plowden Committee 's recommendation ( Cmnd. 1432 , 1961 ) that : ‘ Regular surveys should be made of public expenditure as a whole , over a period of years ahead , and in relation to prospective resources ; decisions involving substantial future expenditure should be taken in light of these surveys . ’ |
| 8 | In the task involving a meaningfulness judgment , performance was better with a sentence context , but when subjects had to judge whether the target sentence followed on from the context , performance was better with the word context . |
| 9 | This research followed on from the success of code breaking techniques in World War 2 and the supposition that translation was simply a more complex coding of words . |
| 10 | An A$970,000,0000 ( US$748,000,000 ) rescue operation by the state government had been set in motion before the announcement , which followed on from the collapse of the merchant banking section of the State Bank of Victoria in August 1990 [ see p. 37658 ] and that of Western Australia 's Rothwells merchant bank in November 1988 [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 11 | Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way . |
| 12 | Organised by Cleveland County Council and Hartlepool Borough Council with support from the Cleveland Action Team , it followed on from the success of last year 's inaugural event in Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | Holly 's head was doubled on his chest , and his words were spoken without sound , and Chernayev talked on from the side of his mouth , oblivious to the loss of his audience . |
| 14 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
| 15 | Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration . |
| 16 | Five London dealers plus Harrods , which plans a display next week , carried off nearly half the lots while Vietnam government officials , the vendors , looked on from the balcony . |
| 17 | While they fought to draw water from a broken tap , he looked on from the safety of his armoured tram , sipping iced champagne . |
| 18 | I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ . |
| 19 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |