Example sentences of "be [verb] on in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 2 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
| 3 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 4 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 5 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 6 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 7 | So , from The Inheritors , we understand that certain things are going on in the fictional world . |
| 8 | Both processes are going on in the two locales , sometimes with a single agency carrying out both simultaneously . |
| 9 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
| 10 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 11 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 12 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 13 | All contain the same genes , although different genes will be turned on in the different specialist cells . |
| 14 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 15 | Jack will be staying on in a consultative position until early next year to help his successor through the opening months of his term . |
| 16 | Looking at the best of chemical engineering within AEA is what the Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service will be focusing on in a two day conference starting on 30 November 1993 . |
| 17 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 18 | The mapping or transformation rules to convert the conceptual model in the form of entities , attributes and relationships , to a logical model which could be relational , hierarchical or network has already been touched on in the relevant sections . |
| 19 | This diversification requires that the genes coding for the ‘ luxury ’ proteins in these cell types are switched on in the appropriate cell . |
| 20 | Again , files that have not been worked on in a given period can be selected . |
| 21 | He had been taken on in an unofficial capacity as Captain 's companion , but , like everyone else on board , from ship 's surgeon to midshipman , he had made the best of this great opportunity by gathering remarkable collections of insects , plants , birds , and fossils . |
| 22 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 23 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 24 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 25 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 26 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 27 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 28 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 29 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 30 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |