Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — When going for country walks , one often comes across a railway line , and it is tempting to walk along either beside the rails or stepping on the sleepers between the rails . |
| 2 | The second section of the Bill enacted other parts of the Wolfenden proposals by increasing the penalties liable for offences under the new law , such as loitering , soliciting , keeping or managing a brothel , or living on the earnings of prostitution , etc . |
| 3 | This should be sufficient to protect the teacher preparing or passing on the records in any reasonable circumstances where what is written has a valid purpose . |
| 4 | As I walked out of another final-year class at fox Primary , the pupils were building complex models out of balsawood or working on the theories of gearing with big pieces of plastic Meccano . |
| 5 | The present system of paying weekly through sticking stamps on NI cards would be abolished , and depending on the results of consultation , which will continue until the end of the year , the Agency is hopeful that payment via banks , certain building societies , the Post Office and Girobank will be possible . |
| 6 | In their own way , and depending on the stresses within the group , the members will almost intuitively sort out a set of relationships which will provide both behaviour patterns and thereby establish a balance of power . |
| 7 | Popular recreation was more ‘ rational ’ in a bureaucratic sense and it was more respectable than before , but its pleasures remained deeply traditional : drinking and betting , chaffing your mates and cheering on the standard-bearers of your real or adopted territory . |
| 8 | Expressive tools give children opportunity to express on the computer their own ideas about reality , so that they can learn through representing , exploring and reflecting on the consequences of their own models . |
| 9 | There has been more violence and stabbing on the streets since the hours were extended . |
| 10 | Or at least , that 's how the military and its bylaws term our walking along the coast and climbing on the cliffs between Stack Rocks and Linney Head , which form the westernmost part of the Castlemartin peninsula in South Pembroke . |
| 11 | Warton , in his book The History of English Poetry , published in the 1680s , wrote , ‘ Antient chemistry made people fancy that bodies could be preserved with the resemblance of real life , by means of a precious liquor circulating through every part in golden tubes artificially disposed , and operating on the principles of vegetation . ’ |
| 12 | Every kind of wonderful bird was flying in and perching on the branches of the great tree , and as soon as one landed a Minpin would climb onto its back and off they would go . |
| 13 | Finally we come to three speakers representing groups which have been active in researching and lobbying on the issues of employment , unemployment and training in West Belfast . |
| 14 | There are graffiti , too , and commenting on the improvements in children 's drawings since the advent of the Board Schools , the Westminster Budget ( 12 August 1898 ) described for us how these ‘ wall sketches ’ commonly depicted ‘ the little disagreements which are natural to healthy children ’ . |
| 15 | Men and women were busy under his supervision investigating and reporting on the lives of people who might or might not have been concerned in the death of this man . |
| 16 | The Organisation and its International Economic Environment focuses on applying economic principles to the decision making processes of an organisation and reporting on the effects of international economic events on the operation of British organisations . |
| 17 | It 's claimed more and more young people are turning to prostitution and begging on the streets of Nottingham as homelessness continues to increase . |
| 18 | The colour range is amazing and there is generally enough for the hems and sewing on the buttons of one garment on each reel . |
| 19 | Like the Holy Ghost , ascending and descending on the foreheads of the Apostles , only in Maggie 's case it 's voles and fieldmice . ’ |
| 20 | We 're going off ! ’ screams every nerve of the BSM graduate 's 25 years of road driving as Brundle approaches the first corner at more than 120 mph and heels the car , its tyres wailing and jouncing on the limits of their purchase , across the corner . |
| 21 | A CONTROVERSIAL plan for a superstore and housing on the outskirts of Middlesbrough will be discussed by residents tonight . |
| 22 | ‘ The manufacturing of electrical and electronic components in the year 1964 … can not be adjudged to be a special use nor can the bringing and storing on the premises of metal foil be a special use in itself … . |
| 23 | All of us , during the time that we have been directly engaged in these matters , have found it easier to make progress when the media have not been looking over our shoulders and breathing on the backs of our necks . |
| 24 | You were tense , and straining on the balls of your feet with your arms hanging loose and ready , and you have passed a kind of barrier that 's hard to come back across . |
| 25 | Assaults on policemen , Chinese and defenceless women , window-smashing , gang fights , breaking up holiday resorts , and gobbing on the steps of churches and also the worshippers assembled there , were among their least terrible adventures . |
| 26 | Stark now travels the country lecturing and advising on the benefits of operating diesel cars . |