Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council 's ruling Labour group split on the issue , after leading opponents of the scheme claimed it would increase violence with drinkers spilling on to the streets at exactly the same time . |
| 2 | For readers looking on in envy but undertaking a sharp intake of breath as they feel as second mortgage coming on , this is far from the case . |
| 3 | INDOOR bowlers from Towerlands and Ipswich will contest all four events in the area finals of the Manchester Unity National Championships , with the winners going on to Melton Mowbray at the end of the month . |
| 4 | INDOOR bowlers from Towerlands and Ipswich will contest all four events in the area finals of the Manchester Unity National Championships , with the winners going on to Melton Mowbray at the end of the month . |
| 5 | The local heats take place at Acklam Sports Centre on Wednesday and Thursday , July 29 and 30 with the winners going on to the regional final on August 5 . |
| 6 | This Sunday the world-wide Fun for Nature 's Walk for the Rain Forest is taking place , and that there are three hundred walks going on throughout the country , four of them are in Oxfordshire , and Sue May is , is concentrating on the walks at Burford Wildlife Park and also the one at Banbury . |
| 7 | Swell waves running on to a coast break when the forward motion of particles at the wave crest exceeds the forward movement of the wave as a whole , a state of affairs caused by the wave retarding as it runs into shallow water and sometimes over-naively attributed to friction with the sea bottom . |
| 8 | The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver . |
| 9 | Though not in favour of DJs wittering on about their birthdays he does n't he was no doubt grateful for these . |
| 10 | A whole load of boring industry heads droning on about how important they are and trying to cop off with each other ? |
| 11 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 12 | With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened . |
| 13 | As the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) advised everyone in the Financial Times last week , ’ There is nothing to prevent a group of countries pressing on with a separate Treaty The fact is that we can not , even if we wished , stop the others going ahead . ’ |
| 14 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |
| 15 | You are lost in a strange country , among a lot of incomprehensible wogs going on about Twenty-fourthers and God knows what , and you are probably scared stiff ! ’ |
| 16 | At the top of the spiral staircases are two wooden trapdoors leading on to the battlements . |
| 17 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
| 18 | It 's all this oil from the boilers leaking on to her into her soil and out into the ditch . |
| 19 | The terracing was adapted from the existing vineyards , as is the case in all the palace gardens backing on to Prague Hill . |
| 20 | Simon Cope of London-based commercial agent Gerald Eve , which is marketing the scheme jointly with Sanderson Townend & Gilbert , said : ‘ There has been as reasonable amount of interest in the past , and marketing has occasionally been stopped while discussions have taken place , but there are serious discussions going on at the moment . ’ |
| 21 | Yet , judging by the earnest discussions going on around her , the melancholy theme seemed to have had the effect of switching everyone 's thoughts away from the actual tragedy that had happened in their midst . |
| 22 | 8–12 There have been extensive improvements going on in Jura during the last two years . |
| 23 | Yeah , and what did you get you see , you get mutations going on in plants so that you get at the moment when the plants themselves are altered , it does n't necessary , necessary mean that they 're killed off , it does n't necessary mean that they are killed off , it means that the actual genes alter , that they go on breathing so you get ginormous sort of cabbages , you know , cabbages that 'll normally be about that size , suddenly become that size |
| 24 | I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings . |
| 25 | Erm the element of control side of it , is extremely frustrating and have have been hinted at by previous speakers to see what are in effect regular and truly massive retail operations going on without development control , without the development of any kind of highway controls which is a county council matter is fully my argue frustrating . |
| 26 | Sandeep , used only to life in a Bombay high-rise , is hypnotised by the daily rituals going on around him — his aunt rubbing oil into her black hair , his uncle retiring to the lavatory with an ashtray , a newspaper and a pair of reading glasses . |
| 27 | Their evolution is governed by the nuclear reactions going on inside the star and making it shine . |
| 28 | There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely . |
| 29 | With all these activities going on around you , ‘ time out ’ is definitely needed . |
| 30 | Travel to and from work may have been combined with other activities , or with a knowledge of other activities going on around them . |