Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This country is not prepared to accept the gospel of despair in mass unemployment , which is returning on such a scale today . |
| 2 | Anyone recording or passing on such a comment is in danger now that records are open . |
| 3 | A reader is bound to ask how you arrived at the idea of writing on such a subject . |
| 4 | It was absurd for her to be going on such an expedition She and Matthew sat at the back of the bus , and while they were bowling along into the country , with a beautiful view of the landscape , Matthew explained the history of the school forest . |
| 5 | Exactly who , or what , triggered this Titanic blast , or what exactly was going on half an hour before it went off , we are not told . |
| 6 | So if you were commenting on such a section as this , you would have a great deal of things to say on , just on the letter forms as they appear on the page . |
| 7 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 8 | EHOs said the domestic kitchen was completely inadequate for cooking on such a scale . |
| 9 | One reason for insisting on such an analysis is our need ( as Rowntree ( 1974 ) reminds us ) to " beware of implicit objectives " . |
| 10 | The move followed the decision in September 1989 to affirm Slovenia 's sovereignty and its right of secession from the SFRY [ see pp. 36899-90 ] , and the consequent election in May 1990 of a centre-right coalition campaigning on such a platform [ see p. 37463 ] ; on this occasion , however , no mention was made of secession . |
| 11 | He called on the government and the EC to ‘ deal with this awful situation where we are sitting on such a mountain of food while millions are starving ’ . |
| 12 | It was , incidentally , a journey of about 20 miles , and it is an interesting reflection on the times that no one saw any danger in an 11-year-old embarking on such a trip alone . |
| 13 | Few managers would think of embarking on such a course if they faced competition from B R itself , that 's why the Government originally barred B R from bidding . |
| 14 | NELSON MANDELA , the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress , is in favour of negotiations with F W de Klerk 's government , but feels strongly that the black majority of South Africans should be in favour too , before embarking on such a venture . |
| 15 | Mr Beckett makes the point that before embarking on such a venture the land would need to be fully assessed to determine the stocking rate . |
| 16 | They felt that a number of questions about the random nature of intervention by artists should be posed before embarking on such a strategy . |
| 17 | Of course , timing is all-important when embarking on such a programme . |
| 18 | Nonetheless , it is always useful to have some general guidelines , and in this final chapter I have gathered together many of the points that , from my personal experience , are worth bearing in mind when embarking on such a project . |
| 19 | Although normally the courts will be reluctant to intervene in ‘ matters depending essentially on political judgment ’ , the prospect of challenge in the Divisional Court is one that any Minister exercising a statutory power , or any official advising on such a decision , is bound to keep in mind . |
| 20 | Goodnight discounts rumours that his company could n't actually get a version of SAS to work on that particular platform , saying the firm is n't working on such a port now , and has no plans to do any other Motorola Inc 680X0 implementations besides the Unix one it offers currently . |
| 21 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |