Example sentences of "on in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 2 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 3 | In one house , on the corner , there was a light on in the front bedroom . |
| 4 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 5 | I 've had a radiator on in the front room . |
| 6 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 7 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 8 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
| 9 | ‘ You should see the party going on in the forward dome car . |
| 10 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 11 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 12 | Customers , or suppliers , or competitors , or even what is going on in the outside world , seem of far less importance than the endless struggle to achieve and operate the perfect bureaucracy . |
| 13 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 14 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 15 | Many teachers and heads felt that getting on in the primary sector required verbal and practical allegiance to certain quite specific canons of ‘ good primary practice ’ , and that anything less , let alone any open challenging of the orthodoxies in question , could damage their professional prospects . |
| 16 | This diversification requires that the genes coding for the ‘ luxury ’ proteins in these cell types are switched on in the appropriate cell . |
| 17 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 18 | ‘ Itsi ’ won his cap eighteen years ago , coming on in the dying seconds of an 8–1 victory over Hong Kong . |
| 19 | These activities went on in the Great Workshop , where the looms were installed . |
| 20 | His voice wandered on in the dull , matter-of-fact tones of someone describing his own environment . |
| 21 | Further on in the above entry he admits he can only be less than himself in company . |
| 22 | A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down . |
| 23 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 24 | erm There 's probably two-thirds of the logging that goes on in the tropical forest , which is about 5 million hectares a year erm is of that nature , so that the forest is left to recover after the logging has gone through . |
| 25 | The baker and the newsagent were open and there was a light on in the Carabinieri station that stood between them . |
| 26 | We can assure the world that the spirit of wartime Liverpool still lives on in the young taxi drivers , news vendors , waiters , waitresses and the police . |
| 27 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 28 | The mapping or transformation rules to convert the conceptual model in the form of entities , attributes and relationships , to a logical model which could be relational , hierarchical or network has already been touched on in the relevant sections . |
| 29 | Early on in the present government 's administration a representative of Fabius warned that if research was to get the money it required , other ministries would suffer . |
| 30 | Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut . |