Example sentences of "[verb] on [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can escape other troubles and concentrate on just the one problem — how to make that damn ball go where I want . |
| 2 | Of course much of China goes on just the same , shrugging off time . |
| 3 | Much of China goes on just the same , shrugging off time , while for Business Studies and Public Relations students life looks pretty rosy . |
| 4 | The sooner Evelyn tells her what really goes on here the better , he thought . |
| 5 | And the increases are likely to carry on now the plunging pound has made Britain such an economically attractive place for overseas visitors , the British Tourist Authority said . |
| 6 | But the subject of justice itself , harked on mainly the legal aspect which these notes deal with , is I think one of the most penetrating subjects have affect all our lives . |
| 7 | Do you realize — all this was going on exactly the same last March ? |
| 8 | It seems to me , everything 's going on just the same as it was before . |
| 9 | The man under discussion in the White House was , at that moment , dwelling on precisely the same subject . |
| 10 | In total , mergers did not occur on quite the same scale as they did in the 1920s — which was equivalent to something like one-third of all firms in manufacturing going out of existence — but they caused the loss of an equivalent of a quarter of all firms . |
| 11 | The installation of the other two new cards and their spinning frames is part of a phased operation to minimise disruption but will follow on immediately the first card is completed . |
| 12 | Using the ranking ( or confidence ) information for the list of candidate strings , we can reduce the problem somewhat , by trying the standard four error correction approaches on just the top 10 candidate strings . |
| 13 | Obviously , if you 're a very tiny newborn baby , the amount of food you need to er , put on extra pound weight , is , is not going to be the same as if you are a much larger child , and you want to put on proportionately the same amount of X pounds , whatever it would be , it would be same the same proportion of your weight . |
| 14 | Charles was just getting out of his bath and was about to put on again the same clothes he had taken off beforehand , when suddenly , there at the gates were envoys bringing from Aquitaine a crown and all the royal gear , and everything needed for holy rites ! |
| 15 | For the period before 1984 our analyses rely on much the same evidence as the Black report , though more complete registration data are now available . |
| 16 | Many small town craftsmen worked on much the same plan . |
| 17 | Weaving looms differ considerably in size and sophistication , but all operate on exactly the same principle , which requires a secure frame on which to tie the warp strands . |
| 18 | There are other probes that operate on exactly the same principle but are geometrically different : an important one is the hot-film anemometer ; the heated element consists of a thin metallic film on the surface of a wedge-shaped thermally and electrically insulating base . |
| 19 | The afternoon wore on much the same as the morning , only more slowly . |
| 20 | Lord Tebbit claimed that if Britain said ‘ no ’ , the Community would go on just the same as it did yesterday . |
| 21 | On parade Major Clark-Kennedy MC informed his troops life would go on just the same under a Queen . |
| 22 | 800 parking spaces , 112 petrol pump nozzles , as last minute preparations went on even the extra large soap dispensers were filled to the brim . |
| 23 | It was also useless to pretend that corruption at elections was one-sided ; the scale was far smaller than thirty years earlier , but it went on just the same in both parties . |
| 24 | After all , despite what the judge had said Britain still went on much the same , Berlin was still a divided city ( and was later to become even more so ) and Russia seemed no more or less secure . |
| 25 | We laboured for her because we liked her , but she tolerated no lazy work : she was a perfectionist and she had taste , insisting on only the best materials , which was unusual in the suburbs , where Victorian or Edwardian houses were generally smashed open and stripped bare , only to be filled with chipboard and Formica . |
| 26 | I regret I am not likely to lose weight in China , as their habit , at least in Peking , is to give us at least twice as much food as we need , and however much we gently suggest that three platefuls rather than six would be sufficient , they still go on just the same . |
| 27 | There are infrared-sensing security lights on the wall of the house and if they go on then the whole thing 's off ; I 'm up and over the wall and back into the woods and away . |
| 28 | And it would seem similarly improbable , for the same statistical reasons , that two lines of evolution should converge on exactly the same endpoint from different starting points . |
| 29 | On the other hand , massed fire from several cannons can be devastating on even the largest enemy units . |
| 30 | For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate . |