Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 2 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 3 | But when you first see it , it can be rather frightening , so hold on to small children 's hands . |
| 4 | Er well Susan 's erm gone to , obviously gone on to senior school now er she 's , she went , she started this year . |
| 5 | There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps . |
| 6 | Proud of the rapid development time for the 601 , the two companies are nevertheless rushing on to complete work on three other promised iterations of the part , now under development at IBM 's Somerset plant in Austin , Texas . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 9 | Like it or lump it , the world is slowly turning on to Graphical User Interfaces , whether they be Windows , the Apple Mac 's operating system , or the Next — not forgetting OS/2 v 2.0 , of course . |
| 10 | They gradually caught on at other establishments , although not on such a substantial scale . |
| 11 | Is a search still going on for missing material ? |
| 12 | No she does to you though cos she 's always going on about other people talking about other people . |
| 13 | Old Angie took everything seriously , always going on about mortal sin , and I got sodding tired of it , and of her , tell the truth . |
| 14 | He is dynamic and creative , always moving on to new realisations of his infinite activity . |
| 15 | In so far as fairness is used within the traditional adjudicative framework the balancing involved therein may be different in degree but not in kind to that which has always gone on within natural justice itself . |
| 16 | Once typed on to special paper , the copy could be pasted on to the boards and , with no need for hot metal , or skilled printers , was camera-ready . |
| 17 | In the case of muscle it seems that there is a master gene controlling the expression of all the main genes , known as myogenin and it is always switched on in mature muscle cells . |
| 18 | In their factory , so essential to the prosperity of Trazior — to its trade and supply routes forever preyed on by vicious nomads — the Valences lived their whole lives , many of them adapted by surgery to their specialised tasks . |
| 19 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 20 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
| 21 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 22 | We are all curious to know what really goes on in other families and all equally determined to preserve the privacy of our own family life . |
| 23 | What I have proposed in the foregoing pages is a conscious surrender to the culturalists of much of the activity that now goes on in English degrees , in order to retain something more coherent , defensible , and inherently valuable . |
| 24 | Castells has now moved on to new areas of research , one of these being new forms of communications technology and the threats and opportunities represented by such developments.3 Meanwhile , however , his emphasis on consumption set the tone for a very thriving area of urban sociology by later writers in this tradition . |
| 25 | The 12-year-old has now moved on to Branksome School , but still keeps in close contact with Philip , who lives next door . |
| 26 | THE pastime of hurling plates around tavernas is now frowned on by Greek authorities . |
| 27 | We now move on to Liberal Democrat motion number two . |
| 28 | I now move on to black paper motion number six , Euro Cities . |
| 29 | Symptoms often come on in cold damp weather and may be improved by cold dry weather . |
| 30 | Socialization within the family and the educational system tends to inculcate an assumption that obedience to those in positions of authority is neutral and morally proper ; and the legitimacy of industrial management is routinely insisted on by religious dignitaries , politicians , judges , editors of newspapers and others with the ability to exert ideological influence . |