Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 2 | We are building on this . |
| 3 | In an editorial statement later this morning , Akira Kobayashi , the Chief Executive Officer of GenTech East , will explain how unreasonable and inefficient the Soviets are proving on this issue . |
| 4 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 5 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |
| 6 | The genuine popularity of the Prince , his self-evident concern and compassion , and events like his fortieth birthday party ( held in a Birmingham tram shed ) are drawing on new sources of support for the institution of monarchy beyond the recesses of middle-class dreaming . |
| 7 | The designers are drawing on broader influences : architecture , painting , and dance . |
| 8 | Where the tucks occur , the stitches that are knitting on each side are pulled upwards , out of shape . |
| 9 | Their decisions are binding on industrial tribunals and have had a significant impact on managerial practices by major employers . |
| 10 | His standards are binding on all men . |
| 11 | The decisions of this court are binding on all inferior courts trying civil or criminal cases , including divisional courts . |
| 12 | They are binding on all academics engaged in their profession , whatever their discipline . |
| 13 | Aforementioned principles and provisions are binding on all Member State authorities , including the courts . |
| 14 | In the GDR , the ruling Socialist Unity Party 's politburo makes policies , and decisions of higher bodies are binding on lower ones . |
| 15 | Because authorities do not have the right to impose completely independent duties on people , because their directives should reflect dependent reasons which are binding on those people in any case , they have the right to replace people 's own judgment on the merits of the case . |
| 16 | His decisions are binding on both parties , subject only to the High Court on a point of law . |
| 17 | The two nations are collaborating on several satellite projects , including the L-Sat communications craft that British Aerospace is building for a launch in 1987 . |
| 18 | John Mercer [ q.v. ] persuaded him to contact William Gossage [ q.v. ] , who had been experimenting on similar lines , and in 1859 Hargreaves joined Gossage 's soap works . |
| 19 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 20 | Now it seems to me that they are challenging on that basis that they can it can be it can be detailed at the local level that individual boundaries can be challenged . |
| 21 | Many of the gifts in the catalogue are also available from the National Trust property shops , some of which are opening on selected days for Christmas shopping ( see back of the catalogue for details ) . |
| 22 | Experts from the world 's biggest wildlife hospital say they ca n't reach many of the seals , which are dying on inaccessible rocks . |
| 23 | Is not that why other Governments and employers across Europe understand well today that the Government are reneging on that and wish this country to undercut others by treating workers in the worst way possible ? |
| 24 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 25 | Shear waters are landing on all sides , filling the air with their strange cackling , gasping , whooping cries — and an oily musky smell . |
| 26 | The crowd are climbing on each other 's shoulders to get close to them and the hippychicks are dancing acid-trip hand jives in pairs . |
| 27 | It all makes me even more angry at the injustice of the situation , and then I worry that I am passing on that anger when I 'm with the boys . ’ |
| 28 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 29 | I am bashing on all speed with the job . |
| 30 | If you are writing on this topic you can work out a list of different sorts of tragedy . |