Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are binding on all academics engaged in their profession , whatever their discipline . |
| 2 | She explained : ‘ People are paying a lot of money for very little heat , they are living on low incomes or benefits in houses with no insulation and poor heating systems . |
| 3 | Now they are calling on local businesses to offer support . |
| 4 | I gather they are working on vulgar fractions . |
| 5 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 6 | I B M , U K , which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year , has some sixteen thousand employees based in some fifty two locations throughout the United Kingdom , and they 're working on all aspects of information technology , er , from software to silicon , from telecommunications to personal systems , and of course we form part of a very large company , I B M Corporation , which employs around three hundred and seventy thousand people across the world . |
| 7 | They were standing on opposite sides of the fallen queen . |
| 8 | Mostly he always used to take the mickey out of the girls because they always used to talk about their boy-friends and what they were doing on different nights and that , because you see , most of them went out with boys from the same school , see , and he knew them . |
| 9 | More often , however , navigation engineers were at odds with drainage men , especially when they were working on existing rivers . |
| 10 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 11 | They were sitting on opposite sides of the small hollow . |
| 12 | But when they tried to leave Nepal , officials discovered they were travelling on fake visas , bought in good faith . |