Example sentences of "[verb] on as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 2 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 3 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 4 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 5 | Articles 100 and 235 of the Treaty of Rome provide a mechanism whereby the amassment of power by the Community may be carried on as a continuous process . |
| 6 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 7 | If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in . |
| 8 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 9 | While I agree that worm watching will probably never catch on as a mass pursuit , something well known here in Cornwall is to observe seagulls tap dancing on the lawn after rain . |
| 10 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 11 | Mr Hay left out the experienced campaigners Karen Brown , Vickey Dixon and Jane Sixsmith from the starting line-up , though Sixsmith came on as a late substitute for Joanne Menown . |
| 12 | Democracy in industry , or , more broadly , at the work place , is an idea that has often been discussed , but with a few exceptions ( including Yugoslavia to some extent ) has hardly as yet been embarked on as a serious practice in most societies . |
| 13 | Mr Murdoch said it was too early to say whether the firm could be sold on as a going concern ; much depended on negotiating settlements on contracts . |
| 14 | Labour was moving on as a renewed party — ‘ a party that cares as much about consumers as it cares about producers ; a party that wants to make the economy work as much as it wants to change the economy ; a party that embraces as much of the green as it does of the red ’ . |
| 15 | It will slide on as a whole line , from the bottom right hand corner ( which will take 50 frames to complete ) stay still for 120 frames , and then scatter off randomly over a period of 30 frames . |
| 16 | He has stayed on as a special adviser and in April will start teaching at his alma mater , Chuo University . |
| 17 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
| 18 | In due course , and all too soon , the excitement of the scenery fades as the road declines through woodland to the only buildings , the Nature Reserve of Inverpolly , there crossing the River Polly and climbing over a bare moorland dominated by Stac Polly , here seen end on as a slender spire , and then finally joins the Ullapool-Achiltibuie road . |
| 19 | To this day they live on as a nomadic people wandering in the wildernesses of northern Ulthuan and ranging across Cothique , Tiranoc and Chrace in small , fierce bands . |
| 20 | To this day they live on as a nomadic people wandering in the wildernesses of northern Ulthuan and ranging across Cothique , Tiranoc and Chrace in small , fierce bands . |
| 21 | In 1688 some of them marched with the invading army of William of Orange to Salisbury where one of them decided to stay on as a small shopkeeper . |
| 22 | Erm , right on the expenditure side we have our normal subscriptions for the year , A S erm the F B A S which you all know , there 's no strangers here who do n't know what these are the A L A and the Whale and Dolphin er Preservation Society which we have taken on as a personal thing in the , in the er name of the club because it 's cheaper |
| 23 | Mr Maxwell , who lives in Oxfordshire , has been taken on as a part-time consultant for the London recruitment agency , Morgan Chase Associates . |
| 24 | We 've been taken on as a whole gang with lots of others , to make roads for those who are chopping down the trees in Wychwood Forest . |
| 25 | The Otago CA , like other sporting bodies , was moved publicly to urge young men to enlist ( each man who did was kept on as a financial member of the association for the duration ) . |
| 26 | Jettisoning Shakespeare , and talking in a ludicrous mixture of Italian and heavily accented English , he comes on as a hilarious parody of a libidinous Latin , pinching handbags from the audience , flogging dodgy cassette tapes and offering healing laughter after all the grief of the earlier acts . |
| 27 | Now we 'll see what the government does in response to er all their friends who are going bankrupt in the Lloyds er cos er that , in that scandal , on the one hand you 've got the government trying to save its neck with its forty four MPs who 've had their , had their hand in the till at the same that they 're doing that , they wo n't actually meet the just demands of people who 've worked all their lives to actually have some sort of security in the future , and that 's the ol er sort of double standards they 're gon na try and er and use to get off the hook on that one because they owe people in this country a decent , we should have the right to a decent pension and security , employment and er with this , this campaign , we should be , we should be concentrating on as a major issue for this union in the forthcoming year . |
| 28 | He stayed on as a civilian minister , preaching to both prisoners and garrison at Windsor , having in September 1647 became a fellow of Eton College . |
| 29 | Mr Carr retired from Dalepak in 1988 but stayed on as a nonexecutive director , and was also a non-executive director with Hartlepool-based building group Cecil Yuill . |