Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [verb] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The super smooth 2.5-litre intercooled turbo-diesel , quite the best of the bunch , is pepped up 4bhp to 98bhp ; the 3-litre V-6 petrol has been breathed on to the tune of an extra 8bhp , at 147bhp . |
| 2 | The way ahead for paleontologists trying to build up a knowledge of evolution has been spurred on by the revolution in plate tectonics , which has provided a better understanding of the stratigraphic record and fossilized data . |
| 3 | That has been spurred on by the successful growth of that sector in Britain . |
| 4 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 5 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 6 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 7 | Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 8 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 9 | Neither party is likely to want to wait until the matter has been decided on by a court . |
| 10 | Mr Maxwell , who lives in Oxfordshire , has been taken on as a part-time consultant for the London recruitment agency , Morgan Chase Associates . |
| 11 | All the responsibility has been thrown on to the regulatory body OFTEL , when it might have been possible to help the market work better . |
| 12 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 13 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 14 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 15 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 16 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 17 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 18 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 19 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 20 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 21 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 22 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 23 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 25 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 26 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 27 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 28 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 29 | For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years . |
| 30 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |