Example sentences of "on [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we go on to explore in some detail how the Stress Syndrome comes about I want to make a couple of general points . |
| 2 | I looked up the subject , Justice , in the new dictionary , and it said , To Treat Justly , or to Treat Fairly , and then it went on to talk about legal justice . |
| 3 | It went on to prognosticate with some insight but little charity about his political future . |
| 4 | Nevertheless the court went on to discuss in some detail what the position would have been if the appeal could properly have been entertained , expressing the opinion that ( i ) ( Silke V.-P. differing ) there was no ground to intervene in the Barclays ( Asia ) case ; and ( ii ) ( all members of the court concurring ) there was no ground to intervene as regards the order in which the cases should be decided . |
| 5 | There 's another element which Your Lordships have not touched on to do with this land which is why er we are being very cautious about our plans for it and that is that er the union railways have indicated a requirement to lease two point eight acres of the land for site purposes from nineteen ninety seven to thousand and three er , but this will depend on the timetable for construction of the Channel Tunnel Link . |
| 6 | As a result they went on to argue for sole custody in step-parent situations on the assumption of children having one ‘ psychological parent ’ with whom they maintain a continuous relationship and bond . |
| 7 | And there are many men and women who , having ‘ failed ’ at a first marriage , have gone on to learn from that failure and to have extremely happy second marriages . |
| 8 | A few months later , as Emile de Laveleye goes on to say in this essay of 1871 , the Franco-Prussian war broke out , setting in motion the sequence of European conflicts which led , ultimately , to the obliteration of the centre of Berlin in 1945 . |
| 9 | by providing the threat of bankruptcy , spurring both the management and workforce on to strive for improved productivity and greater efficiency . |
| 10 | The narrator then goes on to tell of this divorcee , Brenda Goring , who arrives in their village and who latches on to his quite mouse of a wife , whom he dearly loves , fills her ears with tales of the fast life she has always led and still leads in visits to London and , worse , is always to be found in his home when he gets back exhausted from the office . |