Example sentences of "[to-vb] on in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 2 | The Minister warned : ‘ He may be able to carry on in the job but he can not do so effectively . |
| 3 | One therefore gets trapped into a situation where it appears much easier to carry on in the business than to divest , or move out . |
| 4 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 5 | ‘ In no way will there be enough teams left to carry on in the age groups concerned . |
| 6 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 7 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 8 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 9 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 10 | She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again . |
| 11 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |
| 12 | Was there a lot of erm drinking used to go on in the , in the , in the area at the time ? |
| 13 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 14 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 15 | That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being . |
| 16 | It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful . |
| 17 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 18 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 19 | Mr Thomas stressed that this is the area that WACC-Asia needs to concentrate on in the months to come . |
| 20 | This was not the moment to tell Ingrid to strain less in her upper registers , or to remind Luiza to allow plenty of time when she had to walk on in the ball scene . |
| 21 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 22 | The Government are remiss to press on in the face of careful and constructive opposition , which has been voiced by experts from the county of Leicester and other parts of the country . |
| 23 | ‘ He always carried a spare pair of socks and a pair of more comfortable slippers to put on in the office . ’ |
| 24 | Clive Barker ( 1977 ) of Warwick University has given new substance to the use of games in the training of actors and Brian Watkins ( 1981 ) has evolved a theoretical framework conceptually linking drama and game in a way which I shall attempt to build on in the next chapter . |
| 25 | That is a record to be proud of and to build on in the future . |
| 26 | BATTLE-WEARY British pilots too scared to fight on in the Gulf War were secretly replaced , Whitehall admitted last night . |
| 27 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 28 | Lion Cavern came from last in a race run at a slow early pace , to get up in the finalstrides and score by a head from long-time leader River Falls , with Swing Low a further length away third , and Rodrigo de Triano failing to run on in the final furlong and weakening for fourth . |
| 29 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 30 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |