Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village green is really a giant theatre set.It takes hours of work by the scenic artists to turn a series of frames covered in plastic sheeting into convincing buildings.Here they 're working on what will become the church . |
| 2 | But behind this typical example of dreary industrial architecture , much is going on which should encourage us . |
| 3 | Most of these , as opposed to Hollywood films , go to immense trouble to get the details right , and by concentrating on the background rather than what 's going on you can get a fine haul , especially with the aid of a video . |
| 4 | To misuse the cliche , the only game in town last week was speculating on who might succeed John Akers as chief executive of IBM Corp . |
| 5 | Further memories were revived by a visit from his mother in the summer of 1921 which brought ‘ another anxiety as well as a joy ’ when Eliot was working on what would become The Waste Land . |