Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | Leading cross-Channel competitors will join the top names in Ireland and the championships will be the biggest ever sailing event on Lough Erne with the 100-strong expected entry beating the previous record of 80 Mirror class dinghies in 1983 . |
| 32 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |
| 33 | It is easy to foresee a DG very quickly falling flat on his face or stirring up more problems than he started with . |
| 34 | Keating , who came to symbolise the fraud and corruption that lay behind the collapse of hundreds of savings and loan institutions , which are comparable to British building societies , is still awaiting trial on more serious fraud and racketeering charges . |
| 35 | England are still awaiting news on another back-row man with shoulder problems — Leicester 's No. 8 , Dean Richards , who will not be making this weekend 's away day to Orrell , whose coach , Des Seabrook , is in hospital recovering from a mild heart attack . |
| 36 | I mean well , not a reasonable mar he 's still making money on the drinks |
| 37 | We were always putting pressure on him to jack it in . |
| 38 | probably a cup final and they 're still playing football on the first of May . |
| 39 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 40 | The N-Sure team can achieve wheat yield improvements worth £10/15 per acre to the farmer — without ever setting foot on his farm . |
| 41 | Despite this tension the Patriotic Front and the PLO had a deeply politicizing effect on the inhabitants of the territories during the period 1973–5 . |
| 42 | Deliberately inflicting suffering on people is at least prima facie immoral , and needs some special moral justification . |
| 43 | The strategy of ‘ unequal investment ’ — deliberately concentrating attention on specific groups — was a conscious response to the dilemmas of grouping . |
| 44 | At the outset , a ‘ capital repayment holiday ’ of up to two years can be arranged — for two years you only repay interest , further reducing pressure on your cashflow . |
| 45 | It seems that Gainsborough produced such works as favours for important clients , but only for a short period in his career , later preferring oil on paper for smaller portraits of this sort . |
| 46 | As the Lord Mayor Albert was also returning officer on the night and so was the first to see the result . |
| 47 | Paul Stewart is also having treatment on a knee injury picked up in the same match and is fighting to be fit for Monday 's Merseyside derby . |
| 48 | Twenty-one of Lafontant 's alleged accomplices were also standing trial on the same charge . |
| 49 | Slow growth in the economy and in employment opportunities is also putting pressure on the credibility of the examination system , which is still modelled on the old British ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ level system . |
| 50 | I see that we are also awaiting information on the machine and operating system you would use the tape on , and tape density you require . |
| 51 | Golf : Fastest putting show on earth Ken Brown on the key to negotiating Augusta |
| 52 | The disc revolves at a constant speed , holds 54,000 frames per side , and offers about thirty minutes of straight playing time on each side . |
| 53 | Paschal II , who was slowly giving way on the question of homage , which Anselm looked on as settled , sweetened the pill by piecemeal concessions on the primacy . |
| 54 | The Egyptian press has received a fax , purportedly from the Jamaat Islamiya , now waging war on Egypt 's secular regime , which was sent from a post office in Peshawar , the Pakistani border headquarters for many of the remaining Arab Afghanis . |
| 55 | Sukarno regained importance as consensus figure : ‘ If it should ever turn out that Sjahrir is not maintaining the demand for 100 per cent Merdeka … then I have the right to dismiss him ’ , he told a wildly cheering crowd on 17 February 1946 . |
| 56 | In 1986 Farmers ' Weekly described the difficulties now overtaking land on the Isle of Grain in north Kent , where permanent pasture was drained and ploughed in the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 57 | The pro-divorce camp were quick to spot the traditional Irish view that written laws and authoritative words have a radically structuring effect on reality . |
| 58 | Despite the fact that there have been many reports describing the central effects of neuropeptides on gastric and pancreatic secretion , there has been only one previous report of the effects of a centrally acting peptide on biliary secretion . |
| 59 | Protesters are now seeking advice on whether to refer the decision to the European Court . |
| 60 | Politically speaking the issue of local autonomy and sovereignty scarcely ever arose : people recognized popular committees as valuable means of access to resources ; in their democratic aspect most educated Libyans thought of them as rhetorical devices , not really conferring power on a community , but representing curious elaborations of ideology in what was really a simple and straightforward problem of administration of services . |