Example sentences of "[adv] they [be] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so they 're laying on this seminar for as many parish councillors who want to go to explain the planning procedures . |
| 2 | Now they are calling on local businesses to offer support . |
| 3 | I think you need a lot of knowledge , especially nowadays when they 're insisting on all this national curriculum , you 've got to have a very broad ability . |
| 4 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 5 | We have a large coalfired power station near where I live er in Oxfordshire er at a place called Didcot , which is also a railway er junction erm roughly halfway between Harwell where we , we invented er nuclear power and , and Culham where they 're working on nuclear fusion which is a different kind of nuclear power , roughly halfway between the government decides to build the largest coalfired power station in the country . |
| 6 | Why they are staying on this sad occasion is unclear . |