Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armstrong World Industries , so long concentrating on mineral fibre ceiling systems , has now introduced a metal laminate system — the ML ceiling . |
| 2 | Indeed , HIV could provide a means of encouraging people to broaden their sexual horizons , by not just relying on penetration as the goal of sexual pleasure . |
| 3 | ‘ Reducing car tax is not really taking on board the long term interests , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The first option is one of not actually going on holiday alone , but going with a relative or friend . |
| 5 | Making war in the twelfth century was rather like going on strike in the twentieth : it was a method of exerting economic and financial pressure on your opponent — it was not intended that it should end in his death . |
| 6 | Bone meal and it 's like bloody walking on ice . |
| 7 | But he was now officially working on UNACO time . |
| 8 | It would be the earliest , thongs milk-white and small as a baby 's fingers , were even now draining on toast . |
| 9 | The increase coincided with the escalation of pro-democracy protests and with political reform , and there were reports that border guards were no longer shooting on sight people caught attempting to cross the heavily fortified frontier . |
| 10 | Seven of the nine types of bird most commonly occurring on farmland were ‘ significantly more frequent ’ in hedgerows on organic farms . |
| 11 | The situation as we saw it was that there were no obvious leading firms er there were firms that had a particularly they were leaders in a particular niche markets for example 's being very aggressive , they were certainly nationally leading on insolvency and they were getting a lot of a lot of beneficial er publicity from that , locally we saw them er as erm th they were very good in the tax field and certainly in the consultancy field , having one of their major consultancy based in by the airport . |