Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |
| 2 | They are done weekly on the radio in the lunch hour , and people listen to them in factories by the million . |
| 3 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 4 | As the operator takes readings they are recorded automatically on the attached ‘ datalogger ’ , to be transferred later to a personal computer ( courtesy Cath Price ) . |
| 5 | The problem is that there is no satisfactory way of drawing a line between decisions of corporate managers which ought to be respected because they are based solely on the expertise of the directors and those which should be challenged as based on personal considerations or other non-corporate purposes . |
| 6 | These organisations must now demonstrate that the goodwill and voluntary co-operation of the farming and landowning community will be effective in protecting the countryside and , along with the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , they are focusing particularly on the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group , which they helped to establish , as a major vehicle for promoting the Act . |
| 7 | So , if they are paddocked lower on a hillside , they frequently wear a track with restless pacing along the highest fence — rather than along any other . |
| 8 | The arms carry spines ; in euryalid genera on the ventral part of the arm , while in the ophiurids they are carried laterally on the lateral arm plates . |
| 9 | And why I mention that is that the purpose of these people coming they are commercial they are coming here on a commercial basis . |
| 10 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 11 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 12 | That 's where they were roosting overnight on the trees . |
| 13 | These wolf calls middle peasants because , although they were squatting illegally on the land , in practice they owned and worked their small plots . |
| 14 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 15 | While they were working outside on the roof , Chola was inside sweeping down the walls and ceiling , the beams and rafters . |
| 16 | They were used initially on the new ten-minute Squires Gate and Fleetwood service which required ten cars , and the remainder used as Fleetwood specials . |
| 17 | They were sitting outside on the verandah . |
| 18 | They were sitting again on the terrace at the Continental . |
| 19 | They were sitting together on the grass of Hartshorn Park , some distance away from a gravel path where tourists wandered up and down , pointing towards the follies and monuments around them . |
| 20 | On the day , they were brought ashore on the Shirley and driven to the house . |
| 21 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 22 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |