Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] on and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looked at all the usual things ; the cottages , the rectory and so on and , eventually ended up in the churchyard ; the one where Rupert Brooke is buried . |
| 2 | Any mental picture will require interpretation , and this interpretation will be another mental operation , which , on the view that thinking is having mental pictures , will be another picture , which itself will require interpretation , and so on and so on . |
| 3 | But sometimes you can look at the Third World , animal slaughter , pollution and so on and just feel the depressing resignation that ‘ young ’ people are supposed to kick against the establishment . |
| 4 | And so on and so on . |
| 5 | Now for the book , the film , the mini-series , Irangate II , Irangate on Ice and so on and so forth ! |
| 6 | Many of the indicators chosen are suspect , as Macnicol has shown for earlier periods , in that they simply count contact with state agencies , and it is a commonplace observation that the poor are more likely to be in contact with social workers because they are poor ( Becker , 1988 ) ; young drug-takers in inner cities are more visible than wealthy socialites but drug-taking and drinking stretch across social groups ( O'Bryan , 1989 ; Plant , 1989 ) ; desertion of women by husbands and the choice to remain unmarried are not restricted to the poor ; and so on and so on . |
| 7 | And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is . |
| 8 | And so on and so on . |
| 9 | The ‘ established ’ genetic thinking and the ‘ established ’ neo-Darwinian thinking have been ‘ unnecessarily narrow-minded and complacent ’ ( how much would be necessary ? ) — and so on and on . |
| 10 | There is a beautiful and , to my mind , very moving story which scientists , grown old and grey in the quest for useful tools with which to chip away first this corner of ignorance and then that one , hand down to their students and which the students , when they have been transmogrified into old and grey scientists themselves , pass on to their students , and so on and on down through the generations . |
| 11 | Even now I am looking through the chapter on the ‘ law ’ again : the question of colonial robbery ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the alienation … of the surplus product from all pre-socialist forms ’ ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the taxation of private capitalist profit ’ ( p. 64 ) , the question of state loans ( pp. 64–65 ) , currency emission ( p. 65 ) , railway tariffs ( p. 70 ) , the monopoly of the banking system and the credit policy ( pp. 70–73 ) , home and foreign trade ( pp. 73–84 ) , the ‘ prices policy ’ ( sic pp. 84–89 ) , and so on and so forth , with further argument on the theme that socialism is fighting against capitalism and in order to win it must accumulate at the expense of the private economy — and the more the better — this is the entire content of the work . |
| 12 | We then moved on to the spiralling property prices in Oxford , the purchase price of the Parsons ' house compared to its current estimated value , the solicitor 's recent attic conversion , and so on and so forth . |
| 13 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 14 | He , his wife and seven children were left without any means of support … and so on and so on . |
| 15 | During this fabulous weekend , we cut out our material , linings and so on and prepared them for sewing . |
| 16 | We then proceed to the third objective and so on and continue until all objectives have been considered . |
| 17 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
| 18 | We always seem to have exhibitions to work for , work for galleries , and so on and days are planned around these . |
| 19 | And what about Dickens 's Oliver Twist and David Copperfield , Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland , Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice and Emma , Lawrence 's Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow , Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe , Forster 's A Passage to India , Shakespeare 's plays and sonnets , Wordsworth 's Lyrical Ballads , Tennyson 's The Lady of Shalott , the Authorised Version of the Bible , and so on and on . |
| 20 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |
| 21 | Get into a jam with , for example , a knot in the yarn , bad knitting and so on and you will be in real trouble . |
| 22 | The group are hoping to produce a publication , organise workshops , courses and so on and plans to become involved in schools and colleges . |
| 23 | And so on and so on . |
| 24 | the bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia ; the assassination of Allende drowned the groans of Bangladesh ; the war in the Sinai desert made people forget Allende ; the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai ; and so on and so forth , until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten . |
| 25 | We then re-examined our whole hand , studied in more detail than before the costs and revenues from individual products and found , hey presto ! that we had a mixed bag between the good profit earners and a few large loss leaders and so on and so on . |
| 26 | ‘ You know , Comrade Andropov is getting ready for the Party Congress , so he can not receive you at the moment , but you can make a detailed written statement of everything , saying who it is you suspect , and so on and so forth ’ . |
| 27 | Of those councillors who were twin-tracking at the time of the Widdicombe Committee , 58 per cent were teachers or lecturers , 12 per cent were manual workers , 16 per cent were in professional jobs ( social workers , planners and so on and 14 per cent were administrators ( Widdicombe Research , Vol. iii:34 ) . |
| 28 | He came from the er amongst other things Inland Revenue and er very welcome addition to staff and er has quite a , a good grasp of many er sort of national bodies and institutions and so on and is very helpful , and is settling in very well and well-liked . |
| 29 | Yes I erm I would like to point out that we are looking er very closely at the sales and I 've just had a report on my desk from the head of finance which is the beginning of the discussions in the management team on er the sales erm and relation of loss of sales to profit and so on and the now we , the shop is in that position we 've had time t we have more time to assess how things are working out . |
| 30 | But of course that is a discussion which would be quite proper and er for us to have and for the board to take a view on and er for funders to comment on and so on and so forth . |