Example sentences of "[verb] on [to-vb] [that] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he pronounces Owenism 's insistence on the right of property to be its vitiating weakness and contrasts it unfavourably with those who ‘ could see that Socialism entailed the expropriation of the great land owners ’ ; and goes on to conclude that because Owen refused to face the problem of ownership and power , he was able to remain quite indifferent to political Radicalism and to lead the movement astray . |
| 2 | The anonymous author goes on to say that while Vial was not a highly educated veterinarian , even for those times , he was far in advance of the general practitioner in this country , who had usually no training whatever in anatomy or medicine . |
| 3 | Yet he goes on to say that since intention must be considered in trusts , it would be ridiculous to deny the granddaughter a claim for part , since the testator wanted her to have the whole if the last surviving brother had also obtained his brother 's share . |
| 4 | Froissart goes on to relate that while Thomas was abroad in 1380 , ladies of Mary 's family removed her from Pleshey , and soon afterwards she was married to Gaunt 's son , Henry Bolingbroke , later Henry IV . |
| 5 | Leapor goes on to observe that although knights in romances may ‘ … sup on Grass and breakfast on the Breeze ’ , that is nothing which Octavia could bear . |
| 6 | He said simply that he had known where to go for it , and moved on to explain that when Hal MacQuillan made a bid for the paper it was supposed to be his personal fortune that was financing it . |
| 7 | Smeed went on to argue that if drivers were charged for the delays they impose on one another , some of them would travel at different times , by different means or to different places — and that time wasted by everyone in jams would be reduced . |
| 8 | It went on to explain that when war broke out many country gentlemen , as well as the burgesses of a number of cities and towns , chose to serve the King not by joining his armies in the field , but by pulling up their drawbridges , slamming their gates , and challenging the enemy to contest the issue . |
| 9 | He went on to say that while Wedgwood remained profitable , it had experienced a difficult year . |
| 10 | He went on to say that if energy was then introduced into such a system , these shape-specific groups of water polymers could be stabilized and could join together to form long chains of water polymers which would retain the original solute imprint and shape specificity . |