Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As club manager , however , he was widely travelled and widely respected on the Continent , spreading the name and prestige of Arsenal in his imperialist fashion . |
| 2 | Power stations have been designed and successfully operated on the basis of that knowledge . |
| 3 | Answer : Mulberry Harbour — a pre-fabricated , sectional , floating harbour , designed and built in Britain and successfully assembled on the beaches of Arromanches . |
| 4 | It was far safer politically and economically to sit on the scientific fence . |
| 5 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 6 | Bickford was determined to make a safer type of fuse , and although he was no scientist he carried out a series of experiments with many different combinations of materials until , having nearly despaired of ever achieving his goal , he visited a friend in his rope walk and suddenly hit on the idea of spinning a light rope or cord round a tightly packed central core of gunpowder . |
| 7 | It was through this hedge that the naive teenager was dragged unconscious , beaten some more , and brutally raped on the tidy lawn of a smart bungalow . |
| 8 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 9 | Jimmy Marks had become the Commander of No 35 Squadron and so arrived on the day that the Pathfinders were formed with his hind-picked aircrews from No 1 Group . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if there is significant excess capacity at the agreed output , and the agreed price is well above marginal cost , then a significant output expansion would be both feasible and profitable and so reneging on the agreement could appear attractive . |
| 11 | It lies beside its mother occasionally disengaging from the teat with creamy milk dribbling from the side of its mouth , while she takes a rest and perhaps shifts on the sand to offer her other teat . |
| 12 | The pressures to evade the tax — a new imposition bearing particularly hard on poor people in deprived , high spending areas — will encourage some people to disappear from all public record and perhaps to keep on the move to avoid detection . |
| 13 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 14 | In the end , Reagan came very close to defeating Ford , obtaining more popular votes in the primaries than the president and only losing on the ballot for the nomination in the Convention by 111 votes out of a total cast of 2,257 . |
| 15 | These will be a separate elite from the rest of the community and highly organised on the ‘ business Union ’ basis as in the United States . |
| 16 | I was astonished and er I knew that there were there was a similar incident in Gatwick and erm I knew that our crew were quite er highly trained and highly experience on the European routes and Gatwick especially we have very frequent flights to Gatwick . |
| 17 | Discussions at the meeting of the Council of Internal Market Ministers held on 18 June failed to result in any agreement on the long outstanding European Company Statute , first proposed in 1970 and long deadlocked on the issue of employee participation . |
| 18 | The hours passed in fruitless speculation on one side of the room and loud snoring on the other . |
| 19 | Suggestive landscape descriptions , based on the countryside of Alain-Fournier 's childhood ( near Blois , in Loir-et-Cher ) allowed Minton again to delve into his now well-rehearsed repertoire of landscape devices , though unfortunately his original cover design was replaced by another in which the quintessential motif of a figure disappearing down a deserted lane is reduced to a miserable size and merely sits on the front cover like an enlarged postage stamp . |
| 20 | Fourthly , a successful terminal at Stratford would inevitably and inexorably encroach on the Lea Valley regional park and reduce leisure facilities . |
| 21 | It is largely a matter of economics and much hinges on the current price of energy . |
| 22 | The software houses that believed all the hot air about AD/Cycle , the Repository and SystemView and eagerly signed on the dotted line . |
| 23 | Sir John eased himself into his great chair at the top of the table and gloomily reflected on the past . |
| 24 | Now , if she were seated in her old place , wedged between the window and Penini , with his mother opposite encircled in her husband 's arms , or , if the men rode alongside or travelled on the outside of the carriage , sitting with her mistress while Pen and Flush lay on the other seat — now she would feel stifled , trapped , longing to get out . |
| 25 | We now have the opportunity to move out of the hotel and to rent the house of a Professor of Biology , and thus to save on the high cost of the hotel . |
| 26 | Although it might be construed in England as a joint papal and royal dissolution of a religious order and its houses , the statute of 1324 in waiving the king 's rights over the forfeited property omitted all mention of a papal grant to the Hospitallers and thus left on the statute book an impression of autonomous royal action . |
| 27 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 28 | I do this simply to bracket off questions about how experiences relate to the world and thus to concentrate on the question of subjectivity . |
| 29 | As the government itself was to admit in its response to the resultant Griffiths Report on Community Care , the ‘ rapid growth of residential and nursing home care ’ had been ‘ unplanned and largely based on the availability of social security benefits ’ . |
| 30 | er The ransom story may , may have come from er a source er possibly a Hezbalar source er trying to latch on to the , basically to the er the , the thoughts of freedom and just to jump on the bandwagon . |