Example sentences of "on [prep] the [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More opportunities for individual and small group Work in the infant schools would make it more likely that children will achieve fluency in reading early enough to prevent the rejection of learning which so often accompa-nies failure as children move on into the older primary classes . |
| 2 | S4 Many sit Standard Grade on the way to Higher and the ablest by-pass , getting on with the Higher Course . |
| 3 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 4 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 5 | it 's so new to them that they 're bothering to cost it , but how did we go on in the older days ? |
| 6 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 7 | One hand was tangled in her hair , holding her down , and with the other he traced a line past her collarbone and down on to the softer flesh beneath , tugging the neckline of her dress lower and lower , until Folly could feel it brush the swollen aureoles of her breasts under the silk of her bra . |
| 8 | I was going to put Dave Reynolds on to the Jenner part of this ; will that be okay with you ? ’ |
| 9 | All Souls was given a new roof oversailing the upper parapets , throwing water directly on to the lower aisle roofs . |
| 10 | This discourages mounting adhesive from oozing on to the lower surface of the preparation , where it would affect attachment on the lapping machine 's vacuum chucks . |
| 11 | Both were from the same village as Mr Shahiduddin Postman ; both had managed to get educated and to break out of the village on to the lower rungs of academia . |
| 12 | Then when he wanted it to go again he used to get the th the belt , the leather belt , and er sort of hook it on to the lower end of the cast iron pulley and follow it round until it went on . |
| 13 | This was no super-sixth-form with teachers guiding me smoothly on to the higher reaches of learning . |
| 14 | It sounded an ideal way to explore some of the remoter parts of this region , but our time was limited and we wanted to move on to the higher mountains . |
| 15 | Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road . |
| 16 | It was also alleged for instance that women were too docile to make really good workers , too lacking in spirit and ambition : " Boys [ i.e. apprentices ] would claim to be shifted on to the higher branches of the trade " . |
| 17 | There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground . |
| 18 | Assembly of the Peugeot is a matter of fixing the separate plastic guard plate on to the trimmer head . |
| 19 | After we woke , he would take us on to the bigger islands , known as the Big Bush ’ . |
| 20 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 21 | Instead he put in an extra spurt to create a stockpile , giving him time to throw some finished logs on to the smaller heap . |
| 22 | The living picture formed relies on the large barbs to catch the eye , and move it on to the smaller Tetras . |
| 23 | She turned her back on the light and opened the door on to the smaller staircase . |
| 24 | Place a little white royal icing into a piping bag with a fine writing nozzle and pipe decorative loops on to the large balloon where the different colours join , and on to the smaller balloons . |
| 25 | Moving on to the smaller lifeboats Mr Vernon referred to development work on a 22ft version of the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable at the RNLI 's Inshore Lifeboat Centre at Cowes . |
| 26 | The doctor looked down on to the younger children 's heads and his teeth clamped down even harder on his cigar . |
| 27 | Through that we obtained a middle generation , who then passed us on to the older generation of the family . |
| 28 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 29 | James began construction of the large residential gatehouse or forework , called le dungeon , that was added on to the earlier gatehouse to provide a more fitting apartment for the Keeper — and also for the King , whenever he should visit . |
| 30 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |