Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 2 | Thames valley police are cracking down on bad driving . |
| 3 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 4 | The main disadvantage of this arrangement is that the cameras are looking down on those speaking from the front-benches , and , unless they take care to keep their heads up , the tops of their heads rather than their faces are exposed on the screen . |
| 5 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 6 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 7 | And we went up there , oh dear , driving up there you 're going up on this little tiny when you 've got a big car . |
| 8 | Now , of course , we got problems now where they 've all been abolished and is virtually on a voluntary basis , and I say , it 'll be rather interesting to see whether Lamont actually is going to release some more money , cos you probably realise at the moment they 're cutting back on that particular budget . |
| 9 | They 're cutting back on those , apparently . ’ |
| 10 | you 're doing well on these . |
| 11 | We have a confused and overlapping structure er er , the honourable member might be interested in just how confused it is er and how it can be simplified by er going along with the proposals we 're putting forward on this side of the er er the house because there 's so many overlapping authorities it 's just not clear who 's actually responsible for enforcement and compliance . |
| 12 | When you go and buy your ticket and you 're setting off on that day |
| 13 | I could not have cared if he had been lying out on those wild moors bleeding to death . |
| 14 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 15 | He built Britain 's biggest theme park , bought the world 's largest listed building and has this week been shouldering in on one of Manchester Airport 's more unusual records . |
| 16 | So they came back but of course , if it 's jus if it 's been pouring in on that bathroom ceiling again it 's , it , when I took , when Elsie called up to me , come and look at this , the bathroom ceiling was black mould ! |
| 17 | ‘ It depends what kind of scenarios are going on on each floor and in each room of the tower block , ’ ponders The One Who Does n't Object To Wearing ( Hopefully Fake ) Fur Coats . |
| 18 | At least things are moving now on 2807 and we may have more news in the near future . |
| 19 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 20 | ‘ I guess I 've been getting back on that horse ever since . ’ |
| 21 | Erm , we are getting through on that , are you going to suggest on it ? |
| 22 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 23 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 24 | Sixty major articles since April ninety three , erm , in such publications as the BBC 's Tourism magazine , , Chat magazine , those three alone , the value of that publicity is fifty three thousand pounds , so our , our officers are doing well on that front . |
| 25 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |
| 26 | All of a sudden as they like to do in Birmingham station , all the trains are coming in on different platforms from usual and and er delays here and do you know what it was ? |
| 27 | Meanwhile , local police are clamping down on high-tech crime . |
| 28 | Now , it appears that they are to take great pride in the fact that we are spending more on public services , and it is right to acknowledge that . |
| 29 | We need first to make clear that we are focusing here on searchable , electronic databases , information structures which offer a potentially networked service to users . |
| 30 | They have , they will be drawing back on most things . |