Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [art] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Satisfied with this flimsy explanation for the time being , she moved on to a more intimate subject : herself . |
| 2 | However , as soon as they moved on to a more public and active presentation of their demands then councillors condemned this activity , the demands themselves were ignored , and the groups were held up to public ridicule as a threat to democracy and the general interest . |
| 3 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 4 | There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin . |
| 5 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |
| 6 | But it is important to be aware of the limitations of the statistical concept of style before going on to a more realistic assessment of its value . |
| 7 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 8 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 9 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 10 | Once you can carve gybe and water start with ease , you can move on to the more advanced funboard skills . |
| 11 | But as Freud , with his own particular brand of madness and insistence , pressed on into a more realist style , Minton was obliged to recognise the power of his intensely probing vision . |
| 12 | By 1912 , however , the influence of Matisse and the Fauves , which the Brücke had grafted on to a more purely native form of Expressionism , was definitely on the wane , and German painters were feeling the influence of both Cubism and Futurism . |
| 13 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 14 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 15 | Having got his attention-grabbers out of the way , Mr Beckman went on to the more serious stuff . |
| 16 | That is because the offspring of the traditional older working class have gone on to the more pleasant and remunerative employments , the employments that are also called work . |
| 17 | Lower down we emerged on to a more open country of grass-covered hills , with delphiniums gladioli and other flowers growing along the banks of the many streams . |
| 18 | Erm , Chair , on the general financial position , it 's , it 's what I referred to earlier , as moving from somewhere where there were a direct employer or where we were grant-aiding a voluntary body to get on to a more , ultimately a more commercial footing , where we relate the money that we 're paying to the services that are being provided . |
| 19 | In the next chapter , I move on to a more interesting , more telling and more fruitful critique of inductivism . |
| 20 | Discussions of film and television genre habitually nod towards the broad stylistic categories fundamental to literary aesthetics since Aristotle — epic , lyric , drama , comedy , tragedy — and quickly move on to the more immediately recognizable categories under which industry products are branded and sold — horror , western , musical , soap opera , crime series . |
| 21 | We carried on in a more sober mood , each repeating his own prayers . |
| 22 | The metaphysical poets of the 17th century were rarely interested in pastoral as a game and preferred to move on to a more realistic way of expressing their discontentment with the mercantile age they lived in . |