Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Her successor , Margaret Moore , successfully carried on the established pattern . |
2 | Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out . |
3 | These are replacements but are still carried on the original pendentives . |
4 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
5 | Loose canvas seat covers were also carried on the upper decks . |
6 | This is because the genes controlling these particular colour-forms are both carried on the X chromosomes , the red gene on one and the non-red gene on the other . |
7 | 8 information about other books published , materials , tapes , etc — often carried on the inside back cover . |
8 | It also means a more complicated view of humans than the interpretation that is often put on the classical conception — that we are ‘ naturally evil ’ . |
9 | It is a truism that the executive search consultant hired has a stronger influence on the person eventually put on the short list of candidates than the client . |
10 | If all the amendments are lost , one by one , a vote is then taken on the original motion just as if there had been no amendments moved at all . |
11 | At about this time a hitherto unsuccessful fortune-teller living on the other side of the block chanced to glance into her scrying bowl , gave a small scream and , within the hour , had sold her jewellery , various magical accoutrements , most of her clothes and almost all her other possessions that could not be conveniently carried on the fastest horse she could buy . |