Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor had fallen on to plush green grass . |
| 2 | Roared on by considerable vocal support , Matt Cook took his goal tally to eight with two more goals , and then set up Becky Ashdown to round off a 3–0 win . |
| 3 | Unfairly , Sandra is still best known in Britain as ‘ Madonna 's best friend ’ , the possible — but in the end rather improbable — lesbian love interest that titillated the tabloids for a while until Maddy moved on to other mock shocks . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 6 | It consists of 12 information panels ( heavily illustrated with contemporary photographs ) mounted on to large wooden boards measuring 8ft high and 4ft wide . |
| 7 | They are very interested in successful women , but not turned on by facial good looks . |
| 8 | Most patients ( n=123 ) were operated on for presumed ulcerative colitis but 10 ( 8% ) are now known to have Crohn 's disease and a further 10 ( 8% ) have certain features of Crohn 's disease and have been labelled indeterminate colitis . |
| 9 | The rationalisation is one of several going on between various European defence companies in a shrinking market . |
| 10 | Most nest on soda lakes on the Tibetan plateau , but a few travel on to remote high lakes in the Pamirs and Tien Shan . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | If a relationship is clearly becoming either more established , or girls ( and boys ) are moving on to other sexual relationships , it seems logical to take precautions . |
| 13 | With urban wastes , the process is generally in two stages : digesting with algae and then moving on to anaerobic bacterial fermentation . |
| 14 | Peter Graham Scott , who made some episodes of Danger Man and the TV play The Quare Fellow , was working on the legendary series The Troubleshooters when he was called on to direct several episodes of Sir Francis Drake , including the opening one . |
| 15 | When Hughes , who had been cheered every time he warmed up , was brought on with United 2-1 down , Ferguson again incurred the crowd 's wrath by bringing off Sharpe , who like all United 's young players is popular with the supporters . |
| 16 | The reproductive role of women exposes them to many health problems , including diseases associated with malnutrition , infections and diseases brought on by inadequate prenatal care . |
| 17 | Cream 's ‘ fraternal individualism ’ , for instance , is easily metamorphosed into ‘ elitist exhibitionism ’ ( musically , this is the development from Cream to what has often been described as the ‘ empty virtuosity ’ of many later ‘ guitar heroes ’ ) ; similarly , the ‘ thinking ’ of unpredictable extended forms , given the predictable lulling rhythms and bland timbres of Mike Oldfield , is turned into LP-length ‘ easy listening ’ ; the ‘ psychedelic sound ’ becomes exactly that : a fetishized label , isolated from the radical harmonic/rhythmic context it has in ‘ Strawberry Fields ’ , and pinned on to simple Top Ten dance tunes , as a tribute to the middle class ideology of riskless hedonism . |
| 18 | Eventually it became apparent that every vine in every vineyard would have to be grafted on to phylloxera-resistant American rootstock . |
| 19 | The term ‘ Majorism ’ , briefly promoted by the Prime Minister 's Office , was frowned on by Tory Central Office . |
| 20 | Alternatively or in addition he may be co-opted on to other public bodies , such as hospital authorities , water authorities , etc . |
| 21 | But Mr Rickman , who co-starred with Bruce Willis in the movie Die Hard , and went on to other leading screen roles including the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves , is not appearing for superstar 's wages . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Their conversation then drifted on to other desultory matters . |
| 24 | Take the left hand gate and follow the track to Jofless Cottage and go on to High Jofless . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 27 | Siting premises used for the carrying on of designated offensive trades is all important . |
| 28 | Over four years , Ukraine would receive 75,000 million cubic metres of gas and 50,000,000-70,000,000 tons of oil , some of which would be passed on to other European countries . |
| 29 | HIV is not contagious — it can not be passed on by ordinary social contact in the same way as colds and flu are . |
| 30 | Consequently , it is not contagious ( it can not be passed on by ordinary social contact ) and is transmitted in four main ways : |