Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical experts are surprised at the speed at which the latest flu virus has caught on in Scotland . |
| 2 | MEDICAL EXPERTS SURPRISED AT SPEED / ' FLU ' VIRUS HAS CAUGHT ON IN SCOTLAND . |
| 3 | Son Pardo has come on in leaps and bounds since finishing fifth on his debut at Newmarket on 2,000 Guineas day . |
| 4 | With the introduction of carbon fibre , rod development has come on in leaps and bounds . |
| 5 | The young members section has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's technically a very good goalkeeper and he has come on in leaps and bounds in recent weeks , ’ he said . |
| 7 | He has come on in leaps and bounds this season . |
| 8 | Following its bid for Dataid SA in France , AT&T Co 's AT&T Istel subsidiary has moved on to Germany and won agreement for the acquisition of CAB Computeranwendungs-Beratungs GmbH , a software house specialising in applications that run mainly under Unix . |
| 9 | Australian Mick Lee will not be returning to Farnham and James Barrow has moved on to division one club Cheam . |
| 10 | Professor Beck emerged with his reputation intact and has moved on to launch a new project called ArtWatch , based in New York . |
| 11 | From Weimar , where van de Velde taught at the new school of applied art , became a founder member of the DeutscheWerkbund in 1907 , and chose Gropius as his successor , the show has moved on to Berlin 's Bauhaus-Archivmuseum fur Gestaltung ( until 18 April ) . |
| 12 | Kinlet Hall has moved on By Steve Standbridge |
| 13 | Although they have worked together for so many years , there has still been time for individual projects and exhibitions : François-Xavier has moved on from vegetable architecture to monumental fountains and sculptures ; Claude 's ventures include jewellery and bronze furniture for an American garden , stage props for Bob Wilson and breastplates for the angels in Wim Wenders ' film ‘ Wings of Desire ’ . |
| 14 | Debate on Southcom 's future , which has dragged on for years , was put on hold when American relations with General Noriega reached rock-bottom . |
| 15 | Although the princess has returned to Britain the prince has stayed on in Hong Kong . |
| 16 | Mrs Knelle gave a shudder , and in that moment she reminded me of a Karen Blixen figure in Kenya , who has stayed on after Mau Mau to make the best of life in a new Republic . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Xerox has piggybacked on to Access with its ScanWorx high-speed document recognition system for Sun platforms trying to get into reseller channels . |
| 18 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
| 19 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 20 | If one looks across the channel , as some of us have , and sees the way in which the matter is approached there , it is humiliating to consider what has gone on in Britain over the past few years . |
| 21 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 22 | That added to the bitterness which has lived on from generation to generation . |
| 23 | And so Bickers moved on to form Levitation , and into his shoes stepped Simon Walker , just long enough to tour extensively and to record the latest album before he , too , split . |
| 24 | If the request is for a search outside the UK , this gets passed on to MC Strategy Services . |
| 25 | Similarly if the request is for a search outside the UK , this gets passed on to MC Strategy Services . |
| 26 | Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether . |
| 27 | So this is how one chance question at evening classes gets passed on from machine to machine . |
| 28 | And of course another very clear example of the overlap between domestic concerns and international concerns is Maastricht and the great debate that 's gone on in Britain about whether or not we should have agreed to the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 29 | Asked her if she 's signed on at Trevalle |
| 30 | It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you . |