Example sentences of "be [verb] on [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 2 | ‘ We know there are individual trusts with smaller turnovers than ours and mergers with acute services are going on elsewhere in the country , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 4 | If the s69(2) relief is not applicable , it will be essential to have a majority of foreign trustees and for the general administration actually to be carried on ordinarily outside the United Kingdom if the trust is to be an overseas trust for CGT purposes . |
| 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 | If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system . |
| 7 | erm That seems to me a little bit odd that that has to be put on twice to the erm exclusion of other programmes . |
| 8 | More radical is the move towards ‘ object orientation , ’ which focuses on the thing being worked on instead of the application package , on the document , for example , instead of the word processor . |
| 9 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 10 | It should be noted in all these changes that an underlying Government objective is to pass on much of the cost of training to the industry . |
| 11 | We train the staff to know how to do their job , and we tell them what is going on elsewhere in the Hotel . |
| 12 | The Berg , with all its elusive nuances and its stormy outbursts ( in the orchestra as well as in the solo part ) , is graphically outlined here , with the weight and support of palpable involvement in what is going on emotionally in the music 's undercurrents . |
| 13 | But most of the work is going on actually in the auditorium where they 're stripping out all the wood er and putting in great big holes where they can put the fire exits in . |
| 14 | Research on methods for controlling pests without chemicals is going on all over the world and the latest greenfly predator to come under scientific scrutiny is the lacewing . |
| 15 | That was fun , compared to what is going on now at the NEA . |
| 16 | Essentially you put the person in the centre of a huge magnetic coil , and that allows you to find out what 's going on medically inside the person . |
| 17 | The drama might be unfocused , but we can now ask each group to look at the others ' work as examples of what 's going on elsewhere in the street . |
| 18 | I think that 's a a lamentable state of affairs , and their children , and their children 's children are going to have to pay the price for the short-sightedness that 's going on now in the ivory towers of the of the city , the the banking institutions and the financial institutions of the country . |
| 19 | High on the wall of my room , near the open window , waiting for the lights to come on , a gecko is clinging on hopefully to the knobbly plaster . |
| 20 | CHARITY will be the winner when a display of old time ploughing , combining and binding is put on tomorrow by the Seaforde Vintage Steam Threshing Rally . |
| 21 | She was walking on ahead up the narrow path now , he following behind pushing his bike , when he said , ‘ Your people live here ? ’ |
| 22 | In no time Leith was getting on famously at the new Massingham Engineering acquisition — which was apparently , for the moment , to keep its G Vasey Ltd name . |
| 23 | In a slowly-run affair , Highbrook was given a lot to do and was staying on strongly at the death . |