Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James began construction of the large residential gatehouse or forework , called le dungeon , that was added on to the earlier gatehouse to provide a more fitting apartment for the Keeper — and also for the King , whenever he should visit . |
| 2 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 3 | Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road . |
| 4 | It was also alleged for instance that women were too docile to make really good workers , too lacking in spirit and ambition : " Boys [ i.e. apprentices ] would claim to be shifted on to the higher branches of the trade " . |
| 5 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |
| 6 | These led on to the further issues of the relation between Christianity and other religions in general , and of the impact of the critical study of religions on Christian theology ; for that study too had made huge strides through the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 8 | Financing just the first instalment of Labour 's spending plans would raise basic-rate income tax by 3½p in the pound if the entire burden was not to be loaded on to the better-off . |