Example sentences of "[vb infin] on in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think he will stay on in that role , ’ Mr Smith added , ‘ but we will consider the future in our own time . ’ |
| 2 | All brood parasites show a range of fascinating adaptations in support of their unorthodox life style , but the best-known and most fully studied is undoubtedly the European cuckoo which is the species we shall concentrate on in this chapter . |
| 3 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 4 | Few would have dared to predict in the late 1960s that duvets would ever catch on in this country , but today it would be hard to find a British household that does n't have one . |
| 5 | Long may the spirit carry on in all all our lives . |
| 6 | How can a government carry on in such circumstances ? |
| 7 | We ca n't carry on in this bloody silly fashion . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Do they always carry on in this fashion ? ’ |
| 9 | They arrive on stage in strict order of precedence , the noblest usually arriving last so that the lesser characters can look on in suitable admiration , whilst the servants ( the corps de ballet ) keep their distance . |
| 10 | This is certainly the most useful , easily accessible and up-to-date compilation of figures , and it is the one I shall mainly rely on in this book . |
| 11 | ‘ When the alarms go off in the house , they 'll go on in Central Station . |
| 12 | One might go on in that vein to explain that occasional ‘ wrecks ’ of birds occur ( to use the ornithologists ' term ) , where huge numbers of birds are driven off course by a storm , and end up scattered over the land in an exhausted state . |
| 13 | I thought I would go on in that job — hairdressing . |
| 14 | The processes that have been described will go on in any event . |
| 15 | Perhaps I had better not go on in this way or things will get too mushy and pastoral after all . |
| 16 | One can go on in this knockabout vein for some time , because some of the illogicalities of the Velikovskian scientists are very funny indeed . |
| 17 | The question is whether the student can go on in unfamiliar circumstances , can exercise judgement , can be his or her own person . |
| 18 | Employers could not pass on in full these extra costs to the consumers because of the competitive international situation , with the result that profitability fell . |
| 19 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 20 | We have already quoted part of the letter to Rohde , written in December , which gives the best testimony to Nietzsche 's state of mind : " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years … |
| 21 | • A new signal at the start of the race told drivers that the red light would come on in five seconds . |
| 22 | ‘ It needs a born Highlander to understand aright our Scottish Highlanders ’ , goes on JTR , ‘ and to gather from them all the lore they know , so as to give us pictures that will live on in after ages . |
| 23 | ‘ … it wo n't really be dying , because you 'll live on in this plant . ’ |
| 24 | Warning — you can not cast on in this method . |
| 25 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
| 26 | Flagellants will fight on in hand-to-hand combat regardless of casualties or circumstances . |
| 27 | These ‘ survivals ’ would , of course , be evidence that oral societies can and do ‘ fix ’ some aspects of the cultural repertoire ; they do not simply roll on in perpetual immediacy , responding to each new need in a new way and changing the meanings of words and communication accordingly . |