Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an editorial statement later this morning , Akira Kobayashi , the Chief Executive Officer of GenTech East , will explain how unreasonable and inefficient the Soviets are proving on this issue . |
| 2 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 3 | Where the tucks occur , the stitches that are knitting on each side are pulled upwards , out of shape . |
| 4 | Aforementioned principles and provisions are binding on all Member State authorities , including the courts . |
| 5 | The two nations are collaborating on several satellite projects , including the L-Sat communications craft that British Aerospace is building for a launch in 1987 . |
| 6 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 7 | Now it seems to me that they are challenging on that basis that they can it can be it can be detailed at the local level that individual boundaries can be challenged . |
| 8 | The crowd are climbing on each other 's shoulders to get close to them and the hippychicks are dancing acid-trip hand jives in pairs . |
| 9 | It all makes me even more angry at the injustice of the situation , and then I worry that I am passing on that anger when I 'm with the boys . ’ |
| 10 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 11 | I am bashing on all speed with the job . |
| 12 | If you are writing on this topic you can work out a list of different sorts of tragedy . |
| 13 | If I am writing on this side of the paper I can not at the same moment be writing on the other side . |
| 14 | CALLAHAN : Those three are communicating on another level . |
| 15 | The European Junior Team Championships , which England last won in 1988 , are to be played here from July 8–11 and all the governing bodies are looking on this week 's championships as the ideal trial run . |
| 16 | ‘ We are living on enough credit as it is . ’ |
| 17 | The agency says fathers were paying much too little , ninety percent of the mothers are living on social security , so are be definition far poorer than their ex-husbands , and that the formula always leaves the second family better off than the first . |
| 18 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 19 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 20 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 21 | We 're building on this success to provide customers with the highest standards we can offer . |
| 22 | Yeah , like so many industries we 're competing on good service are n't we and if we do things right it does convey a very professional image of C U to , to , to the company , to the , not to the company , to the , to the market place . |
| 23 | I 've been out there and I still did n't know what erm but they will er if if you 're struggling on any assignment they will not let you struggle for day in day out . |
| 24 | The amplifier that you 're using on this tour , is that the Ray Butts amp that you used on Elvis 's ‘ Comeback Special ’ ? |
| 25 | What is more or less manageable on an average wage , like paying the TV licence or buying shoes , causes a major cash flow crisis when you 're living on supplementary benefit . |
| 26 | Er you 're going on this thing at the end of the month ? |
| 27 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 28 | ‘ If you 're staying on this ward because you think he 'll notice you and start asking you out — him or any other good-looking doctor — then you 'll be here till Doomsday . ’ |
| 29 | What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about . |
| 30 | St Ives makes a great base , especially if you 're relying on public transport to get around . |