Example sentences of "be [verb] on [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bill Clinton looks like he will be taking on quite a responsibility . |
| 2 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 3 | The secret is to concentrate on just a couple of areas . |
| 4 | The other approach to natural language indexing is to index on both a stoplist and a golist . |
| 5 | I appreciated I was taking on quite a responsibility — I knew it would n't be like having a budgie in a cage as a pet — but I felt I could cope . |
| 6 | The men 's committee was waffling on twice a week and doing nothing ’ . |