Example sentences of "on [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Successful nursing depends very largely on the nurse 's ability to deal effectively with information received through the senses , whether it is obtained by formal means , such as taking blood-pressure , temperatures and so on or by informal means such as noticing changes in the patient 's condition during bed-making . |
| 2 | But whether you 're backpacking with all your camping gear , food and so on or just out for a day walk , it pays to take the trouble to assess your requirements before buying . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And so on and so on . |
| 7 | Now for the book , the film , the mini-series , Irangate II , Irangate on Ice and so on and so forth ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And so on and so on . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He , his wife and seven children were left without any means of support … and so on and so on . |
| 17 | During this fabulous weekend , we cut out our material , linings and so on and prepared them for sewing . |
| 18 | We then proceed to the third objective and so on and continue until all objectives have been considered . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We always seem to have exhibitions to work for , work for galleries , and so on and days are planned around these . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |
| 23 | Get into a jam with , for example , a knot in the yarn , bad knitting and so on and you will be in real trouble . |
| 24 | The group are hoping to produce a publication , organise workshops , courses and so on and plans to become involved in schools and colleges . |
| 25 | And so on and so on . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |