Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six soldiers seized in the central Cambodian province of Kompong Thom on Dec. 1 ( and eventually released on Dec. 4 ) had been monitoring troop movements from a boat on the Stung Sen river . |
| 2 | The 1991 budget , whose approval by end-1990 was the precondition for a crucial US$2,000 million IMF emergency lending package , was debated by the Assembly on Dec. 27-30 and eventually passed on Dec. 30 by 214 votes to 128 . |
| 3 | About half the captured Africans survived the rigours of capture , passage , seasoning and eventually worked on plantations and , Kane concludes : ‘ only the strongest survived . ’ |
| 4 | James Howe attended the village school in Skirling but left still young and incompletely educated on account of his deafness . |
| 5 | A Roman Catholic taxi driver was shot and badly injured on Nov. 13 by loyalist paramilitaries apparently in retaliation for the IRA murders . |
| 6 | Organizing resources : six case studies was a research report into specific aspects of resource centre organization and so concentrated on matters such as indexing and the allocation of funds . |
| 7 | Andrew Gurr claimed to detect ‘ a rather remarkable pattern of shifts between ‘ you ’ and ‘ thou ’ ’ , only to admit that the ‘ sequence ’ as a whole showed ‘ a remarkable display of inconsistency ’ and so concentrated on Sonnets 1–17 . |
| 8 | It is only when extended memory is available that DR-DOS can make use of it to reduce its demands on conventional memory and so improve on MS-DOS 3.3 . |
| 9 | It is run by a charitable trust and so relies on grants and donations for its survival . |
| 10 | Four months ago Alan Govier was looking forward to early retirement , buying a new car and perhaps going on holiday . |
| 11 | The savings come from less absenteeism , lower insurance costs , more productivity , fewer deaths ( Weis calls this ‘ much lower rates of worker mortality ’ ) , not so much deterioration in furniture , carpets and so on , including office machines , less maintenance and less spent on air-conditioning and heating . |
| 12 | The young pedlar cast him a wary glance and apparently decided on practicality over valour . |
| 13 | ‘ must be kept within narrow limits if it is not to shake the confidence of those who habitually and rightly rely on signatures when there is no obvious reason to doubt their validity . |
| 14 | They were made in Plasticine , and obviously based on photographs of Hindu sculpture in the art books on his bottom shelves . |
| 15 | They include frequent recommendations of new books he had found , and much comment on painters he had come across . |
| 16 | He slipped quietly up the stairs and gently tapped on Dame Elizabeth 's door . |
| 17 | Rocky mountainous country , breeding on cliff ledges , and generally roosting on rocks or crags . |
| 18 | By Heathcote Williams The largest and oldest of land mammals is celebrated by Heathcote Williams in a poem written and already broadcast on BBC radio . |
| 19 | In order to understand better and to compare offers received , it would be helpful to my clients if you were prepared to discuss the mechanics of your offer price which should be worked assuming a debt free group and thus based on profit before tax and interest . |
| 20 | The second section looks at Paris and Vienna , and largely drawing on Clark and Schorske , respectively , at the visual arts and the social structuring of urban space . |
| 21 | But if you do not take enough protein and just live on carbohydrates , e.g. and all-fruit diet , you will lose muscle tissue , rather than fat . |
| 22 | ‘ I have had to be flexible and open minded on selection for all of the six-and-a-half years I have had this job , ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 23 | French engineers , facing similar difficulties of a wartime investment backlog ( but , significantly , steel prices which reflected real shortages ) , based more of their immediate postwar programme on sets of 100MW and above , and soon standardised on 125MW sets ( the first of which , with re-heat , was commissioned in 1955 , three years before the BEA 's first 120MW re-heat set ) . |
| 24 | In Britain alone , Glasgow St Enoch 's was torn down in European Architectural Heritage Year ( 1975 ) ; Birmingham Snow Hill was allowed to rot for years and finally demolished on safety grounds , epitomizing a technique in all too frequent use — deliberate and wanton neglect given as a justification for removal . |
| 25 | In the future we need to be quicker than the competition and totally focused on customer satisfaction and production requirements . |
| 26 | And Esther , now , suddenly tired of the Italian economy , dismissed it and Charles ( 'You do n't seem to realize , Charles , that I live below the reach of the economy , as an economic unit I simply do n't exist' ) , and peremptorily turned on Liz , demanding to know details of the guest list . |
| 27 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 28 | Max has been to numerous rehearsals with his celebrity owner and once appeared on breakfast TV . |
| 29 | These are bright yellow and usually mounted on poles outside the entrance to the building . |
| 30 | ‘ I always take him out in knee-pads , and usually put on exercise bandages , as we are still wary of his split tendon operation . |