Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they do , they are operating on an ignorant and irrational basis . |
| 2 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 3 | When speed sailors sail at high speeds ( 39 knots is the current record ) they have their sails in a close hauled position although they are sailing on a broad reach . |
| 4 | Failing this , a fit elderly neighbour may be willing to come , either voluntarily or for a small payment , which would be useful to them if they are living on a small pension . |
| 5 | There are three equally spaced pointed arm spines on the proximal segments , but they are lacking on the distalmost segments . |
| 6 | In case anyone should think that some of our commentary on IBM Corp and its problems is a little apocalyptic , hear what they are saying on the other side of the Atlantic : ‘ With IBM , there 's a question in my mind whether the company is going to exist five years from now , ’ Kenneth Heebner of Boston fund manager Capital Growth Management commented to the Wall Street Journal . |
| 7 | 1956 : As ‘ Talking Book ’ 16 rpm albums are released in Germany , UK Decca report that they are working on a single-groove stereo disc , as visualised by a certain Alan Blumlein way back in 1931 . |
| 8 | Since they are working on the wrong side of the law anyway , they 're not too worried . |
| 9 | If three or more of the above statements regularly apply to you , you probably need to think about your emotions and the effect they are having on the other aspects of your life . |
| 10 | I rather think that they are concentrating on the main task which is to see that the children are properly provided for . |
| 11 | If we do our work well walkers wo n't realise that they are walking on a reconstructed path . |
| 12 | Finvest 's men have been making the bidding against RAI harder and harder by the season and now they are fighting on a match-by-match basis . |
| 13 | On the public platform they forget the things they 're achieving on a local level while working with us . |
| 14 | They 're working on a new show for the festive season , but it 's not the traditional pantomime . |
| 15 | So really the they 're working on the whole scheme then er |
| 16 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 17 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 18 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 19 | They were staying on the eighth floor of the apartment block in the Upper Downtown financial area of the city where their daughter , Anne , a registered nurse , has lived for three years . |
| 20 | They were being kept nine to a cell in the jail.At first they were sleeping on the concrete floor , now they 're on wooden slats . |
| 21 | They were standing on the front steps of Crystal Springs House . |
| 22 | They were standing on the lower section , with a fire door leading onto a split-level landing . |
| 23 | They were standing on the lower landing watching . |
| 24 | They were standing on the paved area behind the house : all the windows were dark , the garden chairs and the round table abandoned and vulnerable . |
| 25 | They were standing on the main staircase , two flights up from the party room . |
| 26 | On the other hand , for women not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given , and a considerably smaller share said they were working on a temporary basis because permanent work was not available . |
| 27 | By the middle of January 1918 the Labour leaders knew that they were sitting on a potential volcano . |
| 28 | As usual , they were nesting on a precipitous — though in this case well-vegetated — cliff-face . |
| 29 | Maybe it was close behind them and they were embarking on a long exhausting journey all the way around the Waste to reach what was near at their backs . |
| 30 | Thus , while the Allies thought they were embarking on an outflanking movement , they were in fact about to be attacked themselves . |