Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 2 | Anyone else wanting to cash in on the end of the Cold War is advised to get a move on — there 's already been considerable interest in the Wroughton air yard and the agents expect to sell it by the autumn . |
| 3 | A bookmaker is refusing to pay out on a jackpot claim for more than than two million pounds . |
| 4 | Bleating bookies are still refusing to pay out on the bets while Bola make their inquiries . |
| 5 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 6 | We all knew then that he was n't going to miss out on the Cup final for all the world . |
| 7 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 8 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 9 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 10 | " I 'm going to walk out on the street , " Braden said . |
| 11 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 12 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 13 | Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table . |
| 14 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 15 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 16 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 17 | But Tommy Johnson is aiming to step back on the goal trail . |
| 18 | He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline . |
| 19 | ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me . |
| 20 | The Exiles are bristling to get back on the scene and currently lie third in the Division Four South , tucked in behind Havant and Basingstoke . |
| 21 | After losing 83–6 to Blaydon and 42–3 to Horden in recent weeks , the injuries are not helping to get back on the rails in time for their final two league matches this month against Sunderland and Mowden Park . |
| 22 | Stepping back from the display cabinets , hoping to sit down on the window-seat , she made a false move and bumped into something cold . |
| 23 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 24 | The company is hoping to cash in on a niche — fault-tolerant personal computing — that has been largely overlooked by traditional players like Tandem Computer Inc and Stratus Computer Inc , by offering low cost PC-based fault-tolerant systems to the market . |
| 25 | Those hoping to cash in on the warrants issued with their shares may find the free gift is now an expensive invitation to buy . |
| 26 | The narrow High Street is easily blocked as traffic builds up behind the heavy goods vehicles trying to get through on a route avoiding the increased toll on the Severn Bridge . |
| 27 | The US and Japan pretty much have the microprocessor design business to themselves , but now it looks as if Taiwan 's government-backed Computer & Communication Research Laboratories is trying to get in on the act . |
| 28 | Were there any other rival boatmen , people trying to get in on the scene ? |
| 29 | Indeed , the business is so popular that professional pornography producers are trying to get in on the action with their own ‘ amateur ’ videos . |
| 30 | Forced to convene yet another extraordinary meeting by sacked directors trying to get back on the board , Amalgamated Financial Investments has sent out a suitably apologetic letter to shareholders . |