Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Do you realise the entire police force is working on this ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The right hon. Lady is skating on thin ice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The latter is a book in which the author is firing on all cylinders . |
| 12 | However , the complications created by roots are not so acute when the tree is standing on level land . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The introduction to the heads will specify that the clause is binding on both parties and is not subject to contract . |
| 18 | Town & Country Building Society is putting on 1.25 per cent to bring its mortgage rate to 14.75 per cent . |
| 19 | Reductionism is retreating on all fronts , cosmological , evolutionary , and neuroscientific . |
| 20 | THE Government is living on borrowed time , Liberal-Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown warned . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But Blackheath administrator Alun Davies said : ‘ The knee is coming on fine but it needs at least another couple of weeks rehabilitation . |
| 23 | A new project is focusing on cognitive problems associated with operating computer-based systems at work . |
| 24 | Peer group pressure is easing on that . |
| 25 | The Minister clearly has no understanding of the damage that the social fund is inflicting on thousands of the poorest people in cities such as Newcastle and Manchester . |
| 26 | Mature evergreen trees , such as Ilex crenata , have been trained and clipped into formal shapes which look as if a green cloud is floating on each branch . |
| 27 | Is the Minister aware that an Essex GP is calling on national health service hospitals in the Mid-Essex health authority to boost incomes by carrying out privately , in pay beds , procedures that they have effectively banned from the NHS ? |
| 28 | Your Reticular Activating System is firing on all cylinders , your cortex is turning somersaults . |
| 29 | The country is sitting on some of the world 's most valuable supplies of these metals . |
| 30 | Here again there is a question of balance : if society has democratically determined that taxes shall be collected and revenues so received spent in certain ways , non-payment of taxes is punishable even if the defaulter is objecting on conscientious grounds to aspects of staff spending — on arms , for example . |