Example sentences of "on [prep] the new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 2 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 3 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 4 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |
| 5 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 6 | In the 1880s Glasgow 's Victorian prosperity was approaching its peak , and the noon-tide of Empire was to witness the arrival of electricity , the cable subway and the electric trams , photography , St Andrew 's halls , the Great Exhibition of 1888 , 1901 , and on into the new century , hospitals , bridges , effort and endeavour . |
| 7 | Then put the coin in the slot , please Rex , and we 'll get on with the new plan . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There may be benefits for us too — if we do n't get on with the new rector he may only be here for five years , ’ said Miss Duff . |
| 9 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 10 | The French gave support to the Scots who , from very early on in the new reign , caused trouble in the north ; while to the west , in Wales , where Owain Glyn Dŵr was to rise against English rule in 1400 , French troops landed and at one time might have been seen in the Herefordshire countryside . |
| 11 | If you want a conventional light switch to control the new lights , run the sub-circuit cable to a four-terminal junction box first , and connect the new switch cable tin to it before running cable on to the new lights . |
| 12 | Procedures for preparation of tax computations will have to be reviewed to ensure easy transfer of figures on to the new returns . |
| 13 | Once on the new side , the rig should be thrown well forwards to complete the turn on to the new tack . |
| 14 | Fig 28 Once round on to the new tack , the board is steered on to its new course by leaning the rig forwards . |
| 15 | The caterpillars will soon crawl across on to the new leaves . |
| 16 | Here , depressive feelings associated with the originators of agriculture — the weaning mothers of the first , and every , cultivating generation — seem to have become displaced on to the new subsistence-pattern itself . |
| 17 | Welding a bonding cable on to the new rail . |
| 18 | To pick them up , moisten the paint-brush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point , and pick up a larva with the tip of the brush and put it gently on to the new plant . |
| 19 | This should firm the edge fibres on to the new cloth , and form a definite groove along the book . |
| 20 | He twitched his shoulders as if shrugging the burden of Georgina on to the new arrival . |
| 21 | In 1990 out of an intake of 48 on to the new graduates management training course 13 were women , in 1991 this had risen to 30 out of 90 . |
| 22 | To help users , BOC has made available unaudited schedules that show past published information restated on to the new basis . |
| 23 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 24 | A small firm may feel vulnerable and unable to compete effectively and look to be taken over , though with an agreement that those of its partners who do not retire should be taken on by the new firm . |
| 25 | No doubt spurred on by the new Pillar and Gable guide Steve Reid teamed up with John Campbell and visited Pillar , adding Gorre , E1 5b , 5b , 4c , which takes a direct line between Charybdis and Goth on the Low Man West Face . |