Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [was/were] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its zenith the programme was embarking on 8 new projects per year and , despite a slowdown from the breakneck pace of the late 1970s , by 1990 France will have about 70 operating nuclear installations . |
| 2 | There was no hint then that the Mail was running on such a short fuse . |
| 3 | And erm so that the campaign was working on two levels one to persuade women that they did n't have to take time off from working in factories , at certain times of the month and another to persuade women to use erm internal sanitary protection and as I said I will explain why later it comes into another section . |
| 4 | The lady was travelling on this particular journey which was subject to many delays owing to permanent way maintenance work , and the passengers were heartily fed up with the hassle . |
| 5 | The day was moving on faster than I was now and a heat haze shimmered over the Tarn as I came to its banks to sit and eat my lunch . |
| 6 | And during the last two centuries , especially when Britain had strong ties with India and the Indian sub-continent and the trade was flourishing on those routes . |
| 7 | Helen turned and saw that the Colonel was putting on white clothes on top of his army uniform . |
| 8 | After Mr Runciman had complained that it appeared the firm was acting on privileged information , Mr Malcolm had instructed his salesmen not to initiate any further sales . |
| 9 | The Doctor was standing on one hand now , and juggling five different balls whilst singing a medley of songs by Abba . |
| 10 | But the bull was kneeling on Merry 's overcoat ; and that saved him ! |
| 11 | The shadow was turning on that landing , moving up the next set of stairs after them . |
| 12 | A revolution was going on that had absolutely nothing to do with the streets of Brooklyn or the Bronx . |
| 13 | Isabella entered almost immediately into her husband 's publishing business , and within a year was writing on domestic matters for the EDM and had begun the ‘ four years ’ incessant labour' which she claimed Beeton 's Book of Household Management cost her . |
| 14 | They had brought tales with them from England of witchcraft and the King 's concern ; an Essex man who had come with the Hopewell on the return voyage recalled how when he was a child , a pricker was calling on all the households of the nearby villages to discover the sources of a murrain on the flocks . |