Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may disintegrate on impact or , if it survives that , it may carry on some distance under water . |
| 2 | Thus the death of his father is not an event that impinges on a child only at one particular point : it may go on producing shock waves through its continuing effect on the mother , which in turn may bring about a different relationship with the child ; in addition there may be economic difficulties as a result of which the mother has to go out to work , a new home has to be found , and an altogether new lifestyle adopted . |
| 3 | It may stop after one or two drinks or it may go on into a spree . |
| 4 | It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them |
| 5 | This acts as an insurance against driving protest below the surface where it may take on more sinister forms . |
| 6 | The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero . |
| 7 | So we proceeded on a cost plus basis , also the cost plus environment actually brings the partners together because if there are three of us working on a cost plus contract and I have a problem , my two partners rush to help me because clearly there 's some more profit for them , erm if the only difficulty with cost plus contract of course is that unless you have a a real ceiling on the total er costs that you 're going to pay , it may keep on rising far higher than you 'd ever imagined . |
| 8 | But if you contribute to the world 's culture , if you have a good idea , compose a tune , invent a sparking plug , write a poem , it may live on , intact , long after your genes have dissolved in the common pool . |
| 9 | If the choice of bearing is between a sixteen double O four and a six double O four , it may hang , for us it may hang on whether , er , whether we can localize the sixteen double O four |
| 10 | Branson 's views about England were more platitudinous than revolutionary ; England , he would say , is ‘ a great place to live in , but as a great place it should carry on standing totally for democracy and people should have the absolute freedom to say what they think ’ . |
| 11 | It should go on while you are reading . |
| 12 | But I do n't think — it should go on . |
| 13 | Thank you so if I press play and record now twenty one thirty , twenty two thirty it 's half past ten thirty five to half past ten that 's alright so if I press play and record now it should come on at wha one and a half and ten one forty so it should come on when it says one forty . |
| 14 | Thank you so if I press play and record now twenty one thirty , twenty two thirty it 's half past ten thirty five to half past ten that 's alright so if I press play and record now it should come on at wha one and a half and ten one forty so it should come on when it says one forty . |
| 15 | The centre-left American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA — whose leader , former President Alan García , was in exile in Colombia ) , despite internal divisions over the stance which it should take on the poll , called on its supporters to spoil their papers . |
| 16 | According to the hon. Member for Sedgefield , once a programme is introduced it must carry on for ever , regardless of whether it is the most effective way of achieving those aims . |
| 17 | Once the court is satisfied that there is evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control , it must go on to consider the second requirement : was the provocation enough to make a reasonable man do as D did ? |
| 18 | It follows that if a government should wish to keep unemployment below the NUP , it must keep on increasing the rate of growth of the money supply and will have to tolerate an ever-increasing rate of inflation . |
| 19 | And if there was a town council meeting it might go on till ten o'clock . |
| 20 | The report would need to include any denial by the police , but it might go on to comment that whether the allegations were true or not , their existence undermined the confidence of the community in the officers , and for this reason the officers should be transferred . |
| 21 | It might catch on . |
| 22 | Of course it 'll pass on |
| 23 | And once the Worm 's in captivity — in a zoo or suchlike — it 'll go on reminding folk about Kershaw and the unemployed . ’ |
| 24 | If the floor needs washing , okay , I wo n't wash it , but I know it needs washing and it 'll go on nagging me until I 've washed it — so you ca n't win really . |
| 25 | Not having a good night 's sleep is the main thing and not knowing how long it 'll go on for . |
| 26 | And it 'll go on , too — a real little nest egg . ’ |
| 27 | Viola and I will get several thousand each- and it 'll go on . ’ |
| 28 | Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on . |
| 29 | It 'll go on for much longer . |
| 30 | Yes , we have had other school groups but they , this is the thing , this , I mean , it could happen with you , as , as people move on and leave school er you need to encourage people lower down the school to get interested and then , then it 'll , it 'll carry on otherwise they tend to drop . |