Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 3 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 4 | ‘ We are working hard on the process to make these economically , and have two pilot plants on Merseyside . |
| 5 | They are hemmed in on the east by the Grand Junction Canal which still flourishes on the north by the straight alignment of the shortened Oxford Canal on the west by the former Great Central Railway line constructed in 1896 and on the south by the embankment of the old Daventry to Leamington railway . |
| 6 | They are done weekly on the radio in the lunch hour , and people listen to them in factories by the million . |
| 7 | As the operator takes readings they are recorded automatically on the attached ‘ datalogger ’ , to be transferred later to a personal computer ( courtesy Cath Price ) . |
| 8 | The problem is that there is no satisfactory way of drawing a line between decisions of corporate managers which ought to be respected because they are based solely on the expertise of the directors and those which should be challenged as based on personal considerations or other non-corporate purposes . |
| 9 | These organisations must now demonstrate that the goodwill and voluntary co-operation of the farming and landowning community will be effective in protecting the countryside and , along with the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , they are focusing particularly on the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group , which they helped to establish , as a major vehicle for promoting the Act . |
| 10 | The arms carry spines ; in euryalid genera on the ventral part of the arm , while in the ophiurids they are carried laterally on the lateral arm plates . |
| 11 | ‘ But that means they are missing out on the communication and the enjoyment of talking and shopping . |