Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 2 | His mind was working on two levels . |
| 3 | There was no hint then that the Mail was running on such a short fuse . |
| 4 | At its zenith the programme was embarking on 8 new projects per year and , despite a slowdown from the breakneck pace of the late 1970s , by 1990 France will have about 70 operating nuclear installations . |
| 5 | Powell had no argument with the principle of starting a magazine , or even over the amount of money it would cost , but he felt that Branson was treading on sensitive political ground in attempting to take advantage of somebody else 's industrial dispute . |
| 6 | But Fael-Inis was concentrating on spreading honey on to a wedge of bread , and seemed not to notice . |
| 7 | However , action was proceeding on two cases : the East London River Crossing via Oxleas Wood , and the new BP oil terminal at Kinneil , near Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth in Scotland . |
| 8 | Linda was working on that one too . |
| 9 | To her intense humiliation , Luke , Angel , Alejandro , three of Alejandro 's sons , and two of their friends who 'd come to lunch were playing on one pitch while Perdita had been put on another with Alejandro 's three younger sons and four of their cousins — none of them a day over twelve . |
| 10 | There was no chilled Cristal champagne or smoked salmon and the floodlights could hardly be dimmed but , David , the night was full of excitement and emotions were running on four-star . |
| 11 | The lady was travelling on this particular journey which was subject to many delays owing to permanent way maintenance work , and the passengers were heartily fed up with the hassle . |
| 12 | And erm so that the campaign was working on two levels one to persuade women that they did n't have to take time off from working in factories , at certain times of the month and another to persuade women to use erm internal sanitary protection and as I said I will explain why later it comes into another section . |
| 13 | Ice was forming on Three Island Pond . |
| 14 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 15 | When boats were travelling on improved sections they would go in pairs . |
| 16 | Mlle Patricia Allemoniere , of the TF1 station , said her team was working on five different projects ; health , housing , education , the election campaign and the three party leaders . |
| 17 | She claims that Meryl was sitting on that window seat last night , wearing just her nightclothes . |
| 18 | At one point Manchester University group was working on 39 ! |
| 19 | When the train had stopped , it was found that the child 's body was lying on one side of the rails but his head had been completely severed from the body . |
| 20 | She went on to Newcastle , where Goodwin was speaking on local TV about the Dwarf , and she was selling the paper at the local anarchist centre , giving it away along the roadside . |
| 21 | Jack Nicklaus was practising on one the first time I arived . |
| 22 | We had so many breakdowns and strange things were going on that one of the guys went to see a medium in Germany . |
| 23 | The movies were advancing on several fronts and the social theme was but one strand in a more complex whole . |
| 24 | The day was moving on faster than I was now and a heat haze shimmered over the Tarn as I came to its banks to sit and eat my lunch . |
| 25 | That was it , because Edith was going on another holiday and she was er , she wanted someone to go and visit er Lilly , and I said well I 'll go . |
| 26 | In other words it 's , it 's sticking from east to west , people will know of all the thing , it 's er tell you that many from eastern parts and western parts were called and reclined at the table , in other words this , well this good news that Jesus was sticking on this |
| 27 | A revolution was going on that had absolutely nothing to do with the streets of Brooklyn or the Bronx . |
| 28 | Sigourney was coming on last and we were going to move the seats around during the interval because we felt that she might not be able to concentrate sitting next to the heavily made-up and highly camp Julian . |
| 29 | A slender man with a wisp of grey beard and an air of pleasant idleness was lying on one elbow beside a yew . |
| 30 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |