Example sentences of "[to-vb] on in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 2 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 3 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 4 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 5 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |
| 6 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 7 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 8 | That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being . |
| 9 | It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful . |
| 10 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 11 | Clive Barker ( 1977 ) of Warwick University has given new substance to the use of games in the training of actors and Brian Watkins ( 1981 ) has evolved a theoretical framework conceptually linking drama and game in a way which I shall attempt to build on in the next chapter . |
| 12 | Lion Cavern came from last in a race run at a slow early pace , to get up in the finalstrides and score by a head from long-time leader River Falls , with Swing Low a further length away third , and Rodrigo de Triano failing to run on in the final furlong and weakening for fourth . |
| 13 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 14 | It was also based on the even worse assumption that the actual level of income support in April 1990 was sufficient for people to live on in the first place . |
| 15 | for learning to gallop on in the first size |
| 16 | Look how difficult it is for women to get on in the medical or legal profession ! |
| 17 | They had both planned to stop on in the Sixth , then at the last moment , half way through the summer holidays in fact , Sheila had announced she was getting a job . |
| 18 | There is no institutional culture here , which there is at the BBC , and that 's what we have to trade on in the next 10 years . |