Example sentences of "[v-ing] on to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 2 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll be right here beside you , ’ she added , climbing on to the next horse . |
| 4 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 5 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 6 | On no account should it be regarded as something through which the traveller passes quickly while hurrying on to the next destination . |
| 7 | Leading on to the second half I 'd er very quickly like to introduce you to Huw er from er one of the U K's if in fact er worldwide now leading er leading developers of of financial software , and he will be er talking to th talking through to you his experiences er in developing with . |
| 8 | Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth-century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them . |
| 9 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 10 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 11 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |
| 12 | Omit each food or set of foods for about two weeks before going on to the next set . |
| 13 | ‘ Now I can see him going on to the next one , the way he is playing . |
| 14 | The usual practice , therefore , is to take each question individually and mark that one question on every script before going on to the next question . |
| 15 | The numbers in each year are progressively multiplied by some survival ratio to forecast the number going on to the next year , with ancillary information added in as appropriate . |
| 16 | It was an American teaching method that , Frank insisted , allowed students to progress through the stages of education confident that they had grasped all the basics of one stage before going on to the next . |
| 17 | After about a dozen movements have been learned , they are strung together in a kata sequence and practised over and over again before going on to the next set of kata movements . |
| 18 | Because if they do n't understand that , there 's no point going on to the next stage . |
| 19 | She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing . |
| 20 | Thus , when he explained his view of the campaign , and of the war as whole , to Cantalupo on 4 April , he claimed that he was waging war slowly , in order to avoid unnecessary destruction and to consolidate the " liberation " ( which , he said , was not the same as the mere " conquest " ) of one area before going on to the next . |
| 21 | Individuals will approach a Lect/Dem. differently and the details will vary , but in the main it is more practical to take a piece of apparatus and say all you want to about its use before going on to the next piece . |
| 22 | Breadth-first search extends all the paths at one level of the search tree ( the siblings ) before going on to the next level ( the descendants ) . |
| 23 | It should perhaps be pointed out before going on to the next set of examples to be discussed that most of the uses found with have admit of only one of the two interpretations given above . |
| 24 | Yeah so we get one and the you 're going on to the next one . |
| 25 | As each woman dropped money into the cap he would kiss her hand before skipping on to the next . |
| 26 | But , moving on to the second of the problematic areas indicated earlier , the liberal mode itself is open to question , irrespective of its organisational context . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've only five horses here at the moment , ’ Tom said moving on to the first loose-box . |
| 28 | Moving on to the last one . |
| 29 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
| 30 | The eyes of the slow reader will stop on each word before moving on to the next one . |