Example sentences of "[noun] is [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Country Landowners ' Association is calling on local planning authorities to help farmers understand new planning controls on farm and forestry buildings . |
| 2 | Saltburn Residents ' Association is pressing on alone to take part in Britain in Bloom . |
| 3 | A great deal is riding on those words and what they produce . |
| 4 | Chairmen of other Institute technical committees may also attend to get an early impression of the way the wind is blowing on contentious issues . |
| 5 | Asymmetric refers to the problems caused when the aircraft is flying on one engine , ie asymmetric thrust . |
| 6 | The research is concentrating on middle managers ( or , to use the more wide-ranging French term , cadres ) and it is drawing on a range of case study methods . |
| 7 | Do you realise the entire police force is working on this ? |
| 8 | But other schemes are less contentious : partly because the extra money gained from child benefits and other payments which favour lone parents is less than the extra money lone parents gain when the whole household is living on supplementary benefit ; and partly because the public tolerates laxer or more generous administration in other schemes than it is prepared to tolerate when it comes to means-tested benefits for the poor . |
| 9 | The right hon. Lady is skating on thin ice . |
| 10 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 11 | The work started last week and until its finished the transmitter is operating on reduced power , which for some viewers means a poor picture on all ITV and BBC . |
| 12 | The latter is a book in which the author is firing on all cylinders . |
| 13 | However , the complications created by roots are not so acute when the tree is standing on level land . |
| 14 | I am not entirely out of sympathy with what the right hon. Gentleman is saying on this , but I would remind him that we have seen disturbances recently at the prison at Full Sutton , near York , which is not even full ; there are still empty cells . |
| 15 | The Graduate : Teesside Polytechnic is calling on all past students to get in touch with Alumni Officer Clare Tanner so they can receive a copy of its new magazine , The Graduate . |
| 16 | And even if someone from another age is standing on this spot , a ghostly paintbrush in her hand , her eyes would n't see what I see . |
| 17 | Moore is relying on Irish referee Stephen Hilditch , who sent off two French players in Paris last season for foul play , to lay down the law . |
| 18 | OXFAM is calling on Western governments to write off billions of dollars of foreign debt to help countries rebuild after war and faminine . |
| 19 | Presently , Natural is partially compliant with X/Open Group Co Ltd 's XA transaction processing interface , but the firm is working on that standard now . |
| 20 | The introduction to the heads will specify that the clause is binding on both parties and is not subject to contract . |
| 21 | ‘ Iris is checkin' on that now . |
| 22 | Town & Country Building Society is putting on 1.25 per cent to bring its mortgage rate to 14.75 per cent . |
| 23 | If Iran is cheating on nuclear weapons , the International Atomic Energy Agency has yet to catch it at it . |
| 24 | This was provided by Eminox Ltd , with whom JM is working on such devices . |
| 25 | Reductionism is retreating on all fronts , cosmological , evolutionary , and neuroscientific . |
| 26 | The discussion may be restricted to impeccably intellectual topics , but the play of market forces is going on all the time just below the surface . |
| 27 | THE Government is living on borrowed time , Liberal-Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown warned . |
| 28 | With regard to any regulations on fire precautions erm department well the government is sitting on those , it 's unlikely they will be out much before January of next year . |
| 29 | With these objectives in mind , the TSB is embarking on second generation development of both its systems , and is looking forward to their continuing to make a positive contribution to the successful operation of the business . |
| 30 | The threat comes at a time when BA is putting on extra flights to cover the rush , which would have seen 100,000 passengers a day at Heathrow alone . |