Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's taken this long to get over it and , as many good athletes have discovered to their cost , the temptation has always been to carry on training . |
| 2 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 3 | What is also new is that they are building on and developing research in the various components of information skills . |
| 4 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 5 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 6 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 7 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 8 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |
| 9 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |
| 10 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 11 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 12 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 13 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 14 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 15 | Andrew Holden , joint secretary of the Northern Examining Association , said : ‘ We will be looking at the position and seeing whether we think it is worthwhile to offer a similar scheme or whether we would prefer to cut the general level of fees so that we are competing on even terms . ’ |
| 16 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 17 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 18 | Loans from these institutions can not be rescheduled or written off if countries are to go on borrowing . |
| 19 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that if the major galleries of this country are to go on with their extremely enlightened and successful purchasing programme , it is essential that we bring in charging for entry ? |
| 20 | In fact , if you think you may end up wanting a second machine ( of a different gauge ) as well as a standard gauge , it makes sense to buy the model without a KnitRadar and then buy the KnitRadar as an add-on accessory which you can use with whichever machine you are knitting on . |
| 21 | I seem to have been blathering on and on . |
| 22 | ‘ Many families are struggling on , perhaps because they do n't want to consider residential care or because the right sort of care is n't available , ’ said Bill Barker . |
| 23 | They are hanging on by refusing to pay suppliers . |
| 24 | The reason they are hanging on until after the election is because both Labour and the Liberal Democrats are pledged to return opted-out schools to local authority control , with all that implies in terms of victimisation and possible closure . |
| 25 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 26 | But United are hanging on to ‘ Captain Marvel ’ leaving Derby boss Arthur Cox admitting : ‘ We made an inquiry for Robson , but United turned us down flat and said he was not available . ’ |
| 27 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 28 | But … but I will worry if I think you are hanging on waiting , because it 's no good . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps it 's really you who are hanging on , loath to lose that last link with your mother . |
| 30 | But the interpretation from dealers and experts is that motorists are hanging on to their ageing cars instead of buying new ones . |