Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 2 | Most will stay on for an extra year at school or go into some form of further training . |
| 3 | Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 4 | You want to be very careful er , Mr Chairman , how we put out erm , information , I mean , let's face it , you know , you start sort of raising a lot of hairs if you 're not careful and if , if , even if it 's totally irrelevant people will latch on to a particular com comment and make it their own . |
| 5 | If she went out into the rue du Bateau her suspicions might latch on to an innocent person coming from one of the other flats . |
| 6 | While I agree that worm watching will probably never catch on as a mass pursuit , something well known here in Cornwall is to observe seagulls tap dancing on the lawn after rain . |
| 7 | Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’ |
| 8 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 9 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |
| 10 | The NI economy is demand-led and based on public expenditure and a recovery in consumer demand in the UK , which will follow on from an export-led recovery , mid-to-late 1994 . |
| 11 | Patrick Kelly , whom Dan would look on as an ill-educated lout , had actually spent time on her enjoyment . |
| 12 | It will slide on as a whole line , from the bottom right hand corner ( which will take 50 frames to complete ) stay still for 120 frames , and then scatter off randomly over a period of 30 frames . |
| 13 | 45133 and 50015 will then move on for a short period to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before returning to Butterley . |
| 14 | If you 've been here long enough , you can move on to a progressive prison ; to a C cat , or even D cat . |
| 15 | Once you have an exact description of the job then you can move on to an accurate description of the ideal candidate to do it . |
| 16 | They consider that you can only move on from an unhappy experience if you have given it some meaning . |
| 17 | But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency . |
| 18 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 19 | Yeah , try those for and er , I mean there , but there , they 'll go on to a similar any way , but just keeping up the enjoyment side and er |
| 20 | The CPU , floating point , instruction and data caches , memory controller and I/O interface will all go on to a single chip . |
| 21 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 22 | Your point is well taken that a percentage of those will go on to a transmural infarct , but I have difficulty in understanding these figures in relation to an expected mortality for sub-endocardial infarction of around 5–6% . |
| 23 | From the drawing or painting of a real aquarium one could go on to an imagined aquarium and allow the children to invent fishes of their own design and colour , and other water creatures , shells , etc . |
| 24 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 25 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 26 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 27 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 28 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 29 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 30 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |