Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I do have the confidence of the backbenchers to carry on with this particular job as well as the confidence of the leader and the shadow Chancellor . |
| 2 | Several authorities increased their maintenance allowances , paid to the children of very poor families to stay on at secondary school , –5 to compensate for the failure to raise the school leaving age to fifteen , scheduled to take place in 1939 , but held back by the war . |
| 3 | Some agencies prefer that provision should be made to make it easier for confused tenants to move on from sheltered housing . |
| 4 | Items to carry on to future agendas included the MacDonalds and affiliation and working with other groups . |
| 5 | It is possible for a student who copes comfortably with the modules to go on to Higher in S6 . |
| 6 | Specific points to concentrate on in either situation are described below . |
| 7 | Parents can not expect their children to get on with each other but family life is very difficult if there is continuous bickering and jealousy between children . |
| 8 | We there was n't room for a three piece suite sort of thing and then you 'd have a sideboard and a table , chairs to sit on like hard chairs , wooden chairs like kitchen chairs . |
| 9 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 10 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | How could they get women to sign on for such a life ? ’ |