Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know . |
| 2 | The first fruits of their mental endeavour are a sobering awareness of the likely complexities of the post-war Middle East and an unease about the meagre quantity of strategic thinking going on in other European and Arab capitals . |
| 3 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 4 | Sixty per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education , up from only 40 per cent in 1979 . |
| 5 | 75 per cent of 16 year-olds stay on in full-time education or Youth Training schemes , up from 46 per cent in 1979 . |
| 6 | Maybe this attitude lingers on in advanced Western societies , explaining why some people still wax so lyrical about arcane grammatical rules , the Oxford English Dictionary and all the other magical authorities , and why they are so indignant about feminists ‘ tampering with language ’ . |
| 7 | When they get to Italy the teacher decides it 's all a bit cosy : there 's a lot of good work going on in other curriculum areas , and the children are enjoying it , but where 's the drama ? ! |
| 8 | of youngsters stayed on in full-time educational training . |
| 9 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |
| 10 | So far he and his foreign minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , have stuck nobly to the view that Germany should remain a member of NATO , with some ( no doubt far fewer ) NATO troops staying on in what is now West Germany and with enough Soviet troops staying on in eastern Germany for a while to make the Russians feel better about it . |
| 11 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 12 | Civil War conditions lingered on in other ways . |
| 13 | I mean the old boy network is pretty bad in this country , but er , it 's similar sorts of things go on in developing countries , and because there 's much less of an industrial sector there , the government sector itself , erm , plays a very important role in , in employment . |
| 14 | The day dragged on in ordinary fashion until Jess felt she would scream . |
| 15 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |
| 16 | The general trend appears to have been towards making it more difficult for people to stay on in full-time employment after 65 ( Heron and Chown 1961 ) . |
| 17 | A kitchen tends to fall into one of three categories depending on its physical limitations and your life pattern : it may be designed purely as a work room when all the other family activities go on in other rooms ; or it may be a room where the work is done and some or all family meals are taken ; or finally it may bc the real centre of the house , where work is done , meals are taken and where the family congregates . |
| 18 | These cells are classified into about 210 ( according to taste ) different kinds , all built by the same set of genes but with different members of the set of genes turned on in different kinds of cells . |
| 19 | How well a foreigner gets on in Italian football , he thinks , depends on his own attitude . |
| 20 | Only 35 per cent of young people in Britain stay on in full time education and training . |
| 21 | The Lyric Theatre put on in recent years a fine production of the book dramatised by John Boyd and Louis Muinzer . |
| 22 | It seemed that she should say something , for Isabel would let the meal run on in total silence , as every meal now ran , until Kathleen feared that she might scream . |
| 23 | On reaching the city centre the generator goes off and the bus runs on in virtual silence . |
| 24 | Braintree hang on in captivating encounter |
| 25 | Four-year-olds are very different from five-years-olds , says Sandra Brown , an educational researcher who has looked at how four-year-olds get on in primary schools . |
| 26 | The doyen of insider trading may be a shadow of his former power after paying fines of $100million and spending two years in prison , but his legacy lives on in criminal trials on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 27 | The original breed 's hardiness , great adaptability , pleasant nature and dependable productivity live on in other breeds on every continent . |