Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lifestyle involving hard work , charity , abstinence from drink , strict morality , and thrift was deemed absolutely essential , as it was not only insisted on in the Bible , but was also seen as a sign of an individual 's elect status . |
| 2 | His son perhaps stayed on in a bungalow there , moving his goods by dinghy . |
| 3 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
| 4 | They 're always the ones that are a bit more boisterous , whereas the older ones you have to physically carry on in the shop floor , the students do n't , and that 's what gives them a bad name . |
| 5 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 6 | They have the potential to bring together coherently all the different aspects of planning already going on in every school . |
| 7 | Tractor development is n't just going on in the west either . |
| 8 | I heard it certainly I heard it just going on in the car . |
| 9 | Do you mind if I just go on in the way I 'm used to ? ’ |
| 10 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 11 | Well they just struggle on in the Wintertime |
| 12 | For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness . |
| 13 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 14 | The fight to save wildlife still goes on in the Shetlands . |
| 15 | We can assure the world that the spirit of wartime Liverpool still lives on in the young taxi drivers , news vendors , waiters , waitresses and the police . |
| 16 | The loss of Acre in 1291 had a symbolic significance for all the nobilities of western Europe , but a sense of unfulfilled obligation still lingered on in the testamentary dispositions of Gascon nobles . |
| 17 | Montrose House would of course not be the only cost-effective alternative but it does give some idea of the scandalous waste of resources which is still going on in the semi-State sector . |
| 18 | The Persians had been driven from Greece not many years before the temple was begun , and the fight to free Greeks from them was still going on in the east . |
| 19 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
| 20 | ‘ Ruddock 's trouble was that he was always going on in the build-up to the fight about how he reckoned he used to knock me out in sparring when we were kids . |
| 21 | Lucy said , with a sharpness that seemed to surprise both of them , and he quickly stumbled on in an attempt to limit the damage . |
| 22 | Success or failure , the Grendon inmates always move on in the end ; either back to the prison system , or parole , or release . |
| 23 | And now a shabby mischance had destroyed it , knocked down the precarious walls of my prison , I still sat on in the wreckage and kept my eyes closed , safe behind broken bars . |
| 24 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 25 | Bachelors were rather frowned on in the FCO . |
| 26 | Some people argue that the INFORMAL ORGANISATION describes what really goes on in an organisation whereas the FORMAL ORGANISATION describes what ought to happen . |
| 27 | Although the RAF had standard instrument panels from 1936 onwards it was a long time before the merits of this tidy arrangement really caught on in the USA . |
| 28 | It 's a funny thing the way podoeroticism has never really caught on in the West , what with sex being so popular and all . |
| 29 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 30 | I do n't believe that you have any idea of what 's really going on in a country or culture until you live there . |