Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this light spilling on to the driveway , it just was n't like him . |
| 2 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 3 | The council 's ruling Labour group split on the issue , after leading opponents of the scheme claimed it would increase violence with drinkers spilling on to the streets at exactly the same time . |
| 4 | Could you say a little bit more about the research going on in the Education Area ? |
| 5 | Listen to people on the Continent going on about the inadequacies of their own health-care systems . |
| 6 | This Sunday the world-wide Fun for Nature 's Walk for the Rain Forest is taking place , and that there are three hundred walks going on throughout the country , four of them are in Oxfordshire , and Sue May is , is concentrating on the walks at Burford Wildlife Park and also the one at Banbury . |
| 7 | We had a business man on Question Time who was saying that five hundred million pound fraud going on in the benefits , right ? |
| 8 | One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement . |
| 9 | Swell waves running on to a coast break when the forward motion of particles at the wave crest exceeds the forward movement of the wave as a whole , a state of affairs caused by the wave retarding as it runs into shallow water and sometimes over-naively attributed to friction with the sea bottom . |
| 10 | He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house . |
| 11 | The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver . |
| 12 | The new IT programme following on from the ESPRIT 11 will be the largest of the Framework lines with a total allocation of 1352 MECU ( £950 million ) . |
| 13 | The main part of volume three is taken up by a massive review following on from the symbiont chapter in volume two . |
| 14 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 15 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 16 | Trams and buses henceforward shared the same Body and Paint shops , while a new Fitting shop was created in an adjacent building fronting on to the Coliseum . |
| 17 | With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened . |
| 18 | Artist Janet Margrave has created a window opening on to a scene of flowers , ivy-clad trellis , a rush fringed pool and trees . |
| 19 | Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs . |
| 20 | Surely not all that protein synthesis going on in the absence of the inhibitor could be about learning and memory ; some other fundamental aspects of behaviour must be affected ? |
| 21 | Still a fair bit of repair work going on along the M forty , between junctions one and one A , that 's the stretch between Denham and the M twenty-five , the outside lane is closed in both directions . |
| 22 | There 's still a fair bit of repair work going on along the M forty , between junctions one and one A , that 's the stretch between Denham and the M twenty five , the outside lane is closed in both directions . |
| 23 | And I genuinely would say , that I actually think the amount of international and European work going on within the organisation as a whole , is now greater than it was before . |
| 24 | Clearly it is easier for a minister to accept this sort of legislation than to develop a policy that effectively changes the direction of a great deal of work going on within the department . |
| 25 | The publication of the Government 's Green Paper , health of the nation and all the work going on around the country , on the implementation programme for the community care reforms , means that N C V O must attempt to rebuild its own capacity , to undertake effective policy development work in these areas . |
| 26 | ‘ I know from other work going on in the south of Shetland that 10 per cent of the residents there remain concerned about the possibility of major long-term health effects , ’ he said . |
| 27 | He 's got to fulfil all three roles , and the more managerial work going on in the office , the harder it is to find the time to do the work for the clients , which is what produces the fees . |
| 28 | But there is clearly a power battle going on among the Lancaster Gate mandarins , illustrated by the words of 78year-old chairman Sir Bert Millichip . |
| 29 | At the top of the spiral staircases are two wooden trapdoors leading on to the battlements . |
| 30 | Meanwhile there 's nothing mystical about the version of Sumo wrestling going on in the city centre . |