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 | Of course , the debate is not carried on in these terms . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps I had better not go on in this way or things will get too mushy and pastoral after all . |
| 7 | Warning — you can not cast on in this method . |
| 8 | You just carry on in this one look . |
| 9 | Above them on a rocky promontory of convenient geology , Jesus kneels in prayer , an exercise that still goes on in some places , though with less agony and less certainty of address . ’ |
| 10 | Logging is still carried on in some areas . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Do they always carry on in this fashion ? ’ |
| 13 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 14 | Whatever research still went on in that area remained the privilege of Tech-Green itself : unpublished and hidden . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
| 18 | It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself . |
| 19 | Fig. 88 abjures pattern , making its effect entirely by the balance of light figures and dark ground ; while Euphronios in fig. 89 makes his patterns too in red-figure : two ways of integrating the picture still further with the pot , both carried on in later generations . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | My project was a reasonable attempt to find out what 's really going on in those two hospitals . |
| 23 | The radio claimed losses by government forces in the north-west , and said that fighting was now going on in five areas , mainly in Amharic-speaking central , north and north-west Ethiopia , as well as in the south and in the Ogaden area of the south-east . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Symptoms often come on in cold damp weather and may be improved by cold dry weather . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We ca n't carry on in this bloody silly fashion . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He then goes on in separate chapters to cover sexism , racism , ageism and disablism . |
| 30 | 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 . |