Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] on " in BNC.

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1 However , periods of solitude are essential to all ages and may be therapeutic to the elderly , providing the opportunity to reflect on and analyse their lives .
2 In any case , 100 Welsh players having the opportunity to take on the world champions and learn from them will do a lot of good for Welsh rugby . ’
3 The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 .
4 Many of them , it was suggested by the organisations we spoke to , are married women with domestic commitments who are unable or unwilling to work on a regular basis but who value the opportunity to take on occasional work outside normal hours , particularly in the pre-Christmas period ( the height of the banqueting season ) .
5 If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point .
6 And literacy is not the end of the road : there is the added incentive that those adults who can read and write now have the opportunity to go on to higher education through a special rural matriculation scheme .
7 They must naturally be pursued , but always giving counsellees the opportunity to move on to other , more crucial issues .
8 Introducing change , however , calls for patience , sensitivity and consideration for others who may not have had the opportunity to move on in their thinking .
9 The horse that forgot about the tiger that lived in its lair at the bottom of the hill , or at any time disregarded the danger , would very soon become the tiger 's dinner , and so lack the opportunity to pass on to future generations its genes for a poor memory and a low threshold of fear .
10 Of the £8 , the branch has to send £4 to the National Childbirth Trust HQ to support the work of the national charity , so we only get the remainder to spend on 's breastfeeding counsellor training , Penny 's antenatal teacher training , newsletter production & mailing , our post-natal support network , expenses for members who sit on the Birmingham Maternity Services Committee and the Community Health Council etc. etc …
11 There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) .
12 But in some instances research assistants may have been primarily concerned with digging out tables from published sources and presenting them to the writer to work on ; in this case the data are certainly secondary and practically tertiary .
13 It is a scheme that is er , an alternative to placement in children 's homes , for adolescents with severe behavioral and emotional difficulties , erm , whereby er , specialist er , foster parents er , are , are , recruited , they are extensively trained , and er , have the willingness to take on what are difficult and challenging youngsters and er , who are placed with them .
14 Rachel too climbed out of the pool , not having the heart to carry on swimming now that the others had finished .
15 He could n't be sure she would have the heart to go on running racehorses if she were forced to believe Harry a murderer … if she thought he had left her without warning , without a note , if she were worried sick by not knowing where he 'd gone , and was also haunted by the thought of Harry with Angela Brickell . ’
16 Well erm David said that he did n't think the strike would have gone on or they would n't have the heart to go on without the women ?
17 ‘ I dare say he wo n't have the heart to push on with any changes , ’ said Fishbane .
18 Why do n't they give them the money to carry on and do all the good work they 've done , which is well worthwhile .
19 My feet were sore , I was roasted like Sunday pork , and I did n't even have the money to leap on to one of the buses that flashed past me .
20 Input is any data given to a program for the computer to act on .
21 It is very rarely sufficient just to put the product on the table and expect the photographer to get on with photographing it .
22 In the case of Russia , revisionist research has underlined the manner in which the specific nature of the tsarist regime conditioned the decision to take on the Central Powers .
23 The contract required the buyer to pass on to the seller all the buyer 's rights under the sub-sales contracts .
24 The installation of a Lasercomp in 1979 enabled the Division to take on the filmsetting work of the Computer Assisted Typesetting unit as well as expand the range of their own setting .
25 She had gone to the cloakroom at the back of the building to put on her white coat and he had gone to the box in Chief Inspector Martin 's office to switch off the system which protected the inner doors of the main Laboratory rooms .
26 Although the policy review will be endorsed by the conference , giving Neil Kinnock the freedom to go on to the offensive against the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election , there are a number of areas of potential conflict .
27 It appointed Patrick Le Quement , one of the world 's most free-thinking car designers , and gave him the freedom to get on with it .
28 The trust my partner and I share gives us the freedom to get on and do things without stopping every ten minutes to check up on each other .
29 One way of avoiding this problem is to use JTMP ( Job Transfer and Manipulation Protocol ) to run jobs remotely ; once a workable JTMP framework has been set up , there is no need for the user to log on directly to CMS at all .
30 Annie started to clamour for the story to go on .
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