Example sentences of "[to-vb] on in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate evacuated to Oxfordshire where three large houses were taken over in Goring-on-Thames and the school was able to carry on in a ‘ make-do ’ fashion . |
| 2 | Mellor told Mr Major he felt unable to carry on in a phone call early yesterday morning . |
| 3 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 4 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 5 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 6 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 7 | If knowing how to go on in a discipline is largely a matter of rule-following , it remains the case that the rules are as much socially imposed by the disciplinary tribe as they are by epistemic considerations ( Becher 1989 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | President Arístides Pereira asked the outgoing government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until after the presidential elections due on Feb. 17 . |
| 10 | Any swing will be increased by the inertia of the glider because the mass is behind the wheel , trying to move on in a steady direction . |
| 11 | Seamen , after receiving their pay would slip into the hand of the door messenger sums varying between half-a-crown and a sovereign , with the confidential whisper " do n't forget me when I am ready to sign on in a week or two 's time " . |