Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] on as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is talking this time of the short stories of Guy de Maupassant , only a few of which can perhaps be seized on as crime short stories before their time . |
| 2 | They came on the scene when the private telegraph companies were ‘ nationalised ’ and integrated into the Post Office , the women literally being taken on as a ‘ job lot ’ with their male colleagues . |
| 3 | For this reason , it should not be looked on as an end user language . |
| 4 | As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit . |
| 5 | Sensationally , The Smiths would not be carrying on as a band at all . |
| 6 | But , you know , they 're just being going on as if they are i in a position to grant |
| 7 | Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner . |
| 8 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 9 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 10 | Democracy in industry , or , more broadly , at the work place , is an idea that has often been discussed , but with a few exceptions ( including Yugoslavia to some extent ) has hardly as yet been embarked on as a serious practice in most societies . |
| 11 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |