Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Sorry about that whingeing on at the end of the last letter .
2 We must insist on a system of tests that will be for the benefit of the pupils ; that will test what each one can do in practical work and in theoretical understanding ; and will serve as a motive for each to go on to the next stage .
3 And most of that goes on in the daytime
4 These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes .
5 It is not necessary to reach agreement with Dr Bryan 's moral scheme in order to see that it involves quite a different moral emphasis from that projected on to the 1930s by post-war nostalgia .
6 The 20 teams were put into four pools , with the top two from each going on to the quarter-finals .
7 The event lasted all day , with two heats of ten teams , the top three from each going on to the final .
8 It presumes that the meaning to be ascribed to any of the elements which comprise the X factor is to be that determined by the reviewing court in preference to that decided on by the tribunal .
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