Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Bomber Command and the American Air Forces were concentrating on oil refineries and synthetic petroleum plants as well as the usual railway marshalling yards and arms factories all over France and western Germany in order to enable the invading armies to carry on advancing , but air losses were heavy . |
| 2 | Well all that means is that you just have n't got on with him so far , or you have n't quite found the right way to get on with that person yet . |
| 3 | ‘ I would say that he is the right stallion to use on near thoroughbred mares to produce the speed needed to achieve cross country optimum times comfortably , because that 's where the soundness comes in . |
| 4 | ‘ Monetary discipline ’ and ‘ public credibility ’ , key phrases in this approach , would ensure the most favourable backdrop for the private sector to get on with its proper business of creating and allocating wealth . |
| 5 | It is the responsibility of the offline manager to log on to LIFESPAN and to set up various parameters for the offline run . |
| 6 | It is time at least for the English language to take on the concept of child-friendliness . |
| 7 | I think that I will allow the hon. Gentleman to get on with his speech . |
| 8 | They have not affected the determination of the British people to carry on their lives as normal and I do n't see any reason for that to change now . ’ |
| 9 | On the other hand she did not want to stand until dawn , and she did want the French words to go on being threaded together . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the operators , Amoco , said : ‘ The weather has considerably moderated , allowing the towing operation to carry on as planned . ’ |
| 11 | He 'll be delighted to have the old hands to call on . |
| 12 | Of course the Latin fathers not only had St Paul 's reference to Christ as the propitiation ( with its notions of appeasement ) for sins , 5 they also had the whole history and logic of the Old Testament to draw on . |
| 13 | The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on . |
| 14 | … it is doubtless true that the power of the imperial Parliament to pass on its own initiative any legislation that it thought fit extending to Canada remains unimpaired . |
| 15 | Production is being doubled from 300 to 600 cars a week to meet the growing demand and Rover needs the extra staff to take on the extra shifts . |
| 16 | The brokers note that representations are being made to the Treasury to enable USM companies that switched to the Official List to go on enjoying inheritance tax relief by extending this relief to all family-owned companies . |
| 17 | He is the natural author to take on the popular character to so successfully revived in ‘ Batman 2 ’ . |
| 18 | John , playing from Great Aycliffe , goes through to the area finals of the national championships to take on international Cliff Simpson ( Hartlepool ) on a neutral venue . |
| 19 | Does subsidiarity mean that the Member States should be permitted to decide whether that decision is an individual matter or one for the national state to take on the basis of its view of where the best interests of |
| 20 | And you would miss Carn Mor Dearg which , after the relentless pull to climb on to its broad back , rewards you with the most fabulous views , and an easy walk to its summit . |
| 21 | The important point to focus on is the relationship between the modern economic sector and the informal sector which is clearly not as negative as the formal/informal dichotomy would imply . |
| 22 | All the strained confusions of the night are over , all the sleepless impatience to get on with the job . |
| 23 | In well-run firms , the right of the continuing partners to carry on the practice will be expressly recognised and the partnership agreement will contain detailed provisions as to the entitlements of outgoing partners ( Clause 20 ) . |
| 24 | The fact that Treasury rules restricted past investment makes it all the more necessary now for the privatised companies to get on with it . |
| 25 | The other wanted the Communist Party to go on as before . |
| 26 | Any attempt by the Irish Government to press on with political talks would be pointless , when politicians here are pre-occupied with the security situation and are still miles apart , politically . |
| 27 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 28 | President Arístides Pereira asked the outgoing government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until after the presidential elections due on Feb. 17 . |
| 29 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 30 | Eight days after knocking out Errol McDonald on a low-key bill at Bury , the 25-year-old Dudley boxer steps unexpectedly into the big time to take on experienced champion Donovan Boucher , of Canada . |