Example sentences of "[vb pp] on in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin . |
| 2 | The Great Western pioneered the idea but it never caught on in the rest of the country . |
| 3 | It 's a funny thing the way podoeroticism has never really caught on in the West , what with sex being so popular and all . |
| 4 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 5 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 6 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 7 | Some 1 500 periodicals are currently taken ; these reflect the wide range of scientific activity carried on in the Garden . |
| 8 | Another important industrial activity carried on in the neighbourhood was the extraction of salt from sea water . |
| 9 | The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends . |
| 10 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 11 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
| 12 | The answer to the last question is , of course , the so-called Standby Credit which is really a form of performance guarantee which will only be drawn on in the event of default by the party who has contracted to perform some service . |
| 13 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 14 | Genetic make-up , early childhood socialisation , class divisions and inequalities of opportunity are things which we either do not know how to change , or would involve a degree of social and economic transformation which is very unlikely to be embarked on in the name of reducing crime . |
| 15 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 16 | By now , the case of Sumner v. Virgin had dragged on in the law courts for eleven days , with the two parties holding each other up in the centre of the ring like panting heavyweights , while the legal fees gushed forth like blood from the wounds . |
| 17 | The shafts can be tied on in the case of very young children , especially during active play . |
| 18 | It was a wild challenge brought on in the heat of the moment and by the magnitude of the occasion . |
| 19 | We can not assume that what the linguist identifies as significant should correspond with aspects of language to be focused on in the teaching and learning of a language as a school subject . |
| 20 | We can sum up the thread of the argument here by saying that binary oppositions , such as masculine/feminine , are not themselves the first principles of semantics and human cognition , they are a system grafted on in the attempt to analyse those things . |
| 21 | One was its involvement in politics in a direct sense which would be frowned on in the West . |
| 22 | Bachelors were rather frowned on in the FCO . |
| 23 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 24 | And if we look at the implications er West Yorkshire which were touched on in the beginning of this part of the debate . |
| 25 | The relationship between body posture and suppressed past trauma or emotions was touched on in the section dealing with cervical reintegration . |
| 26 | These were Allen 's and Marian 's guesses as to what had gone on in the darkness but the rest of the story of those two hours before dawn was easily pieced together from Tom All Alone 's account . |
| 27 | It would be absurd to adopt a rigidly determinist view of what has gone on in the formation of culturally transmitted marriage laws . |
| 28 | Whatever the support or not for these values , the book fails to recognize the wider changes that have gone on in the family and in gender relations , changes which may be quite separate in origin from the question of poverty , although they add to the poverty of women and children . |
| 29 | Spending on current health needs is often constrained by the serving of financial commitments taken on in the past to secure basic health resources . |
| 30 | Even though it may be said that what is taken on in the incarnation is a humanity in which we all share , it is still the case that the form in which this universal nature is said to have been taken on is that of a male human being . |