Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [v-ing] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 2 | Fairfax and I are sitting on the verandah at Folly Farm . |
| 3 | It 's hard to keep your eyes away from documents people beside you are reading on the train , especially when they are X/Open Co Ltd internal memoranda : the one seen by a Unigram.X spy at Lewisham , South London last week promised in its first paragraph ‘ a 0% payrise ’ for unfortunate X/Open employees . |
| 4 | ‘ He says you are trespassing on the land belonging to the Maker of Clouds . |
| 5 | If you are riding on the road you just see different towns , but in the forest there is such variety , that an hour ride becomes what you want it to be . |
| 6 | The LM form of homœopathic medication is unusual in that once you are improving on the remedy you actually continue to take it even when you are feeling well . |
| 7 | ‘ Possibly you are meditating on the fact of my baldness . ’ |
| 8 | There are six short vowels , as in the following sentence : You will take these in your stride without much ado if you are concentrating on the sense of the sentence , noticing the crisp consonants . |
| 9 | If you are working on the RM Nimbus network WAIT for the Command Menu to reappear and then : |
| 10 | Unless you are working on the switchboard or reception , you should also state your name . |
| 11 | If you are working on the floor , sit cross-legged if possible or kneel on a mat . |
| 12 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 13 | You are standing on the edge now . |
| 14 | ‘ We thought it would make a nice Christmas present and show our borrowers that we are passing on the benefits of the recent rate reductions as soon as possible , ’ says Stratton . |
| 15 | But there 's another cost to the savings that have been exemplified and that we are going to be forced to take with regard to this budget and that is something that anybody who uses the city council services , and particularly I would suggest councillors , are going to notice and that is the stress that we are putting on the people that we employ . |
| 16 | It is one of many graphic illustrations of the damage we are inflicting on the Earth to be found in Jonathon Porritt 's Save the Earth ( Dorling Kindersly , £14.99 ) . |
| 17 | This assumes that there is a tension between the causing of serious harm ( death ) and the relatively low fault ( ‘ recklessness ’ , as here defined ) , and that this tension should be resolved in favour of the fault element when we are deciding on the labels of offences , thereby making no reference to the result , but should be resolved in favour of the serious harm when sentencing , increasing the sentence according to the gravity of the resulting harm . |
| 18 | Then suddenly I get a call saying , ‘ We are going on the road , ’ so I was in and it was fantastic . |
| 19 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
| 20 | But we are dwelling on the splendours of Augusta , not the frailties of Westminster or Capitol Hill . |
| 21 | ‘ But we are working on the idea of a monthly publication , probably starting in May , to act as a kind of bulletin to keep supporters in touch with what is happening , ’ he said . |
| 22 | A spokesman said : ‘ We are working on the theory the motive was robbery or sex or both . |
| 23 | We are working on the basis of defence policy arranged by the Treasury in which case there must be a whole-hearted defence review . |
| 24 | Already we are encroaching on the specialist areas that deserve separate attention in following Chapters . |
| 25 | We are knocking on the door of the League and I said to him : ‘ Why not do a Barnet here ? ’ ’ |
| 26 | But , he added ‘ While these people have a right to live as they want , they are infringing on the rights of other people . |
| 27 | Today , millions of Japanese may be unaware that they are dining on the namesake of their late military governor , ‘ Big Mac ’ . |
| 28 | Furthermore , this Convention also requires that acceptance of the right or obligation by the third party organisation be in accordance with its constitutive rules , which again assumes that they are binding on the organisation , although contained in a treaty to which it is not a party . |
| 29 | Careful investigation often shows that these people have a dual problem : they are sensitive to foods and chemicals on the one hand , and they are hyperventilating on the other . |
| 30 | These then monitor the geometric relationships as they are developing on the CAD system , and check to see whether the desired function being monitored exceeds a set range of values . |