Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [prep] [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 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 3 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 4 | Yeah so we get one and the you 're going on to the next one . |
| 5 | It 's all to do with GCSE coursework and see how we 're getting on during the two weeks and we get experience for us when we leave school and go to work . |
| 6 | Johnson , just debating , we 're getting on to the whole idea of Johnson 's world and the link though it worked out the same I 'd say . |
| 7 | We 're moving on to the next paper . |
| 8 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 9 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 10 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 12 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 13 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 14 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 15 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 16 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 17 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 18 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 19 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 22 | So , from The Inheritors , we understand that certain things are going on in the fictional world . |
| 23 | Both processes are going on in the two locales , sometimes with a single agency carrying out both simultaneously . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We are moving on with the medical services . |
| 26 | Tonight she would far rather have been getting on with a hundred and one other things , but conscience had dictated that she must get the books finished first . |
| 27 | They 're occupying themselves writing out an account of their movements since Lorrimer was last seen alive and the local force are getting on with the preliminary checking of alibis . |
| 28 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 29 | But while County are tipped to go up this time , Francis could be stepping on to a bigger stage before next spring . |
| 30 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |