Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind was working on two levels . |
| 2 | There was no hint then that the Mail was running on such a short fuse . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But Fael-Inis was concentrating on spreading honey on to a wedge of bread , and seemed not to notice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Linda was working on that one too . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ice was forming on Three Island Pond . |
| 11 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She claims that Meryl was sitting on that window seat last night , wearing just her nightclothes . |
| 14 | At one point Manchester University group was working on 39 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Jack Nicklaus was practising on one the first time I arived . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | A revolution was going on that had absolutely nothing to do with the streets of Brooklyn or the Bronx . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A slender man with a wisp of grey beard and an air of pleasant idleness was lying on one elbow beside a yew . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In November 1985 , a maintenance team at the B ( Advanced Gas-Cooled ) station was working on one of the circulators which drives the carbon dioxide cooling gas round the reactor core . |
| 26 | All this was to change , however , in the year she describes as ‘ extraordinary ’ , 1963 , as a result of what she took to be the effect that television was having on public debate . |
| 27 | And during the last two centuries , especially when Britain had strong ties with India and the Indian sub-continent and the trade was flourishing on those routes . |
| 28 | Helen turned and saw that the Colonel was putting on white clothes on top of his army uniform . |
| 29 | Sara was sitting on one of the bentwood chairs by the desk in the bare little office ; a WPC , her black-stockinged legs tucked under her chair , sat by the door . |
| 30 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |