Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
2 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
3 | It showed a little girl with a garland around her neck , and a grass skirt , on an island , being spied on by this little boy through a telescope . |
4 | Or the quarry would have carried on with this slate mine . |
5 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
6 | ‘ I 'd no idea you carried on like this . |
7 | Rafiq was doing a lot of waving into the darkness , as if he expected something to appear — a deputation from the Noise Abatement Society , thought Robert , if they all carried on like this for much longer . |
8 | Mapped on to this functional domain is the geometric domain . |
9 | Candidates from both the UK and overseas are accepted on to this full-time programme . |
10 | Even though the method described by Braybrook and Powell ( 1980 ) has moved on since this time , it still does not reflect current knowledge of child language . |
11 | Once more it was the terms used by people such as the Iroquois , who were believed to have moved on from this stage , who provided the evidence for its previous existence . |
12 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
13 | Obviously you can have photocopies or laser prints copied on to this material , but I have here some pens and a box of blank acetates which you will have the opportunity later to use if you so wish . |
14 | London 's later partner in the Brompton Park nursery , Henry Wise [ q.v. ] , was another of Rose 's apprentices , whose influence on the design of formal gardens was handed on in this way to the next generation . |
15 | Our own sonar is now locked on to this device and the sonar room has suddenly become the focal centre of interest in the Kilcharran . |
16 | In principle , any discipline can be called on in this way , as an intellectual resource which has the power of showing hidden ways of perceiving the object in question . |
17 | The thatch , which is marsh reed harvested from local wetlands , is tied on to this . |
18 | There are several inland cliffs , but these are too far from the sea for auks and gulls , and so the whole , and large , sea bird population of this part of Iceland is concentrated on to this one cliff . |
19 | ROS : To sum up : your father , whom you love , dies , you are his heir , you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped on to this throne and into his sheets , thereby offending both legal and natural practice . |
20 | In a way , the very roots of music are touched on in this work . |
21 | The many rules and regulations concerning licensing will only be touched on in this section ; they form in themselves a considerable volume of law . |
22 | Much of the work under discussion gives some consideration to the issue of subject specialization : the character of science education will , therefore , be touched on in this chapter , but a fuller discussion of this topic , and that of humanities education , will be found in Chapter 3 . |
23 | Had I gone on with this research at the depth which I had in view I would undoubtedly have used a far more informal interview and , having chosen possible points of difference , I would have introduced these in the interviews and let the informants develop the themes themselves . |
24 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
25 | I mean there are some Conservatives who do actually believe in the social welfare of the but there are also , I 'm I 'm sure there are large numbers who actually know what vicious streak there is behind a lot of the other measures of social control that have gone on in this country since consensus was in nineteen seventy nine er you actually realise what what a tragedy it is in this area . |
26 | ‘ It is something which has gone on in this force for almost two years but has now reached epidemic proportions and something has to be done , ’ he declared . |
27 | Mine , at any rate , after the initial angers and resentments , has lingered on to this day , and I think there has never been a rime when I did not remember that love and think of Dana . |
28 | It should perhaps , like type B hepatitis , be added to the list of diseases that are often or even usually passed on in this way . |
29 | The extent to which personality characteristics are passed on in this genetic way is less certain . |
30 | Another factor which has reinforced this and which has hardly been remarked on in this context is the telephone . |