Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jane is an abductee , someone who believes they have been forcibly abducted by aliens , spirited up to spaceships and physically experimented on in various alarming ways ( rectal probing , artificial insemination , induced premature births ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the case of muscle it seems that there is a master gene controlling the expression of all the main genes , known as myogenin and it is always switched on in mature muscle cells . |
| 6 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
| 7 | We are all curious to know what really goes on in other families and all equally determined to preserve the privacy of our own family life . |
| 8 | What I have proposed in the foregoing pages is a conscious surrender to the culturalists of much of the activity that now goes on in English degrees , in order to retain something more coherent , defensible , and inherently valuable . |
| 9 | Symptoms often come on in cold damp weather and may be improved by cold dry weather . |
| 10 | Nothing went on here , though , in this shacky walk-up : what went on went on in interchangeable intercontinental hotel rooms , in the private suites of corrupt clubs and thriving speakeasies , in glazed Arab flats . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He then goes on in separate chapters to cover sexism , racism , ageism and disablism . |
| 13 | FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters . |
| 14 | Again cast on in full needle rib then transfer the stitches according to the diagram . |
| 15 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 16 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 17 | A feature of the in-service programme at Codsall Comprehensive School , for instance , was a guided tour of the school , the Director of Resources showing teachers what was actually going on in other departments . |