Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both these titles were cover-names for the department responsible for eavesdropping on foreign embassies and trade missions in London . |
| 2 | The David Cronenberg adaptation of William S Burroughs ' novel was seized after opening on four screens in the Greek capital of Athens . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | If children are beaten with a stick by their parents when they transgress , he suggests that they will tend to avoid transgressing on those occasions when their actions are not concealed from their parents . |
| 5 | But the pleasure is always the same — grand scenery , stunning settings and the wonderful way that holds keep appearing on great slabs of bland-looking rock . |
| 6 | It must seem natural that the profession should direct its attention to needs of prisoners appearing on overnight charges … |
| 7 | Two days later , the body was still appearing on different beats . |
| 8 | A third curiosity of the discount market is the one we hinted at in section 5.1 when we referred to the Bank of England 's appearing on both sides of the market , as a seller of treasury bills on the government 's behalf and as a buyer . |
| 9 | In short , the directors are not legally restrained from appearing on both sides of the bargaining table , but they must observe the necessary processes . |
| 10 | Shear waters are landing on all sides , filling the air with their strange cackling , gasping , whooping cries — and an oily musky smell . |
| 11 | Landing on lucky squares helps , enabling you to win wodges of useful cash with which to buy better players ( see box ) . |
| 12 | Each island is subject to economy-wide variations in demand as reflected in changes in the absolute price level for commodities , but news of what is happening on other islands and , by implication , of what is happening in the economy at large , takes time to filter through . |
| 13 | And to understand how the complex situation was developing we must consider what was happening on three levels : |
| 14 | Violence at home , terrible as it was , could be seen as little more than a reflection of what was then happening on foreign shores . |
| 15 | And that 's right , but what we 've got now is children going around knocking doors , perhaps knocking on elderly peoples doors |
| 16 | In the final quarter England threatened to snatch the lead with a movement from deep within their own half , Jeremy Guscott knocking on just yards from the line after Rory Underwood 's fine touchline run . |
| 17 | Clearance of semi-arid savanna , coupled with overgrazing and friable soils , has resulted in annual degradation rates of between 1 and 10 mm per year , the higher rates occurring on overgrazed slopes . |
| 18 | For example , the most commonly preserved sample types occurring on British sites are bone , shell and charcoal , but on some sites — or in other areas of the world — a different range of materials might remain . |
| 19 | Experts from the world 's biggest wildlife hospital say they ca n't reach many of the seals , which are dying on inaccessible rocks . |
| 20 | But many seals and otters are now dying on inaccessible rocks and today 's high winds are preventing any rescue attempt . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | The passage in question , revealing on various counts , deserves to be quoted at length : " I have no idea how the business is coming on … |
| 23 | It would be like traveling on some airlines I could name . |
| 24 | Even using the same terms on more than one occasion with the same customer would seem not to amount of itself to trading on standard terms . |
| 25 | The outcry over declining profit margins seems to show that British commercial enterprise had been sapped by decades of trading on advantageous terms as the only great exporter of manufactured goods . |
| 26 | The nucleotides corresponding to the C-terminal region of each encoded peptide were converted to a BamHI site by filling in with Klenow polymerase and ligating on BamHI linkers . |
| 27 | Any pause in progress towards the objective is a matter of reneging on electoral promises . |
| 28 | Students will closely monitor their own progress and complete detailed record keeping on all aspects of the investigation . |
| 29 | SCORES of motorists in the North-East are risking their lives driving on illegal tyres , according to a shock new survey . |
| 30 | Driving on German motorways can require strong nerves and does not leave much attention for observing the countryside . |