Example sentences of "[v-ing] on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it 's been so successful , it 's opening on a permanent basis . |
| 2 | Which artistes were appearing on a certain date , that sort of thing . |
| 3 | A very cloak and dagger episode followed when I had to meet a colleague on shore after landing on a remote beach by motor boat . |
| 4 | Instead of landing on a sandy beach stretching some way inland , the men were trapped on a rocky shore north and south of the craggy headland of Ari Burnu . |
| 5 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 6 | Disregard any fields which would entail landing on a downhill slope . |
| 7 | From the haunting opening sequence of the party landing on a stormy sea-shore strewn with luggage ( plus the piano ) , Miss Campion maintains a tense , hallucinatory atmosphere . |
| 8 | There the science and technology portfolio has passed around among ministers , sometimes landing on a peculiar desk . |
| 9 | Daring skiers used the 60ft ramp to make airborne acrobatic leaps before landing on a giant air-bag at the bottom of the slope . |
| 10 | But if its going to be happening on a regular basis in to Tracy , then perhaps Paul should put a report in to Frank . |
| 11 | For European nations , everything was happening on a grand scale : industrialization , urbanization , colonization . |
| 12 | We are probably wrong , however , to see this as happening on a large scale or as a particularly significant development in many areas . |
| 13 | To be , to be , to be honest , to be honest , I , I do n't know what the , what , what , what 's actually happening on a day-to-day basis with this . |
| 14 | In many ways , he believes his situation to be a microcosm of what is happening on a larger scale in the industry . |
| 15 | The reward reduces the horse 's anxiety and negative feelings , and replaces them with more positive feelings instead — what is often described as ‘ ending on a good note ! ’ |
| 16 | Sotheby 's and Christie 's sales of Impressionist and Modern art of 10–11 November took the art world on a psychological roller-coaster ride beginning with a frightening drop and ending on a reassuring plateau . |
| 17 | So , ending on a positive note rather than a pessimistic note , what would you like to see for universities in the future ? |
| 18 | It provides the first example of BSI and NAMAS cooperating on a joint registration . |
| 19 | Other mitigating measures could involve the encouragement of private concerns to develop their own plantations , as is already occurring on a small scale , not only in the rainforest regions but also in savanna regions where Eucalyptus is being successfully cultivated to provide fuelwood and poles . |
| 20 | ‘ Who 's talking of dying on a fine day like this ? ’ |
| 21 | Large numbers of people in Britain are reduced to subsisting on a low income once they are unable to work . |
| 22 | Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night . |
| 23 | One Tory MP , musing on a possible slogan for the capital , warned of ‘ red tape , red ink and Red Ken ’ . |
| 24 | This act has as much relevance as trading on a dead beetle . ’ |
| 25 | Sufferers with bad backs know they must avoid certain movements , such as bending with stiff legs , twisting on a fixed base or lifting heavy weights . |
| 26 | Crêches can be expensive to run and it is possible that charges will be prohibitive , particularly if you are returning on a modest pay grade . |
| 27 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 28 | China refused to accept back 71 people who entered Hong Kong illegally and accused the colony of reneging on a 1982 agreement on immigration policy . |
| 29 | After a dispute over whether the current agreement would end in 1991 or 1992 , an issue which remained unresolved , the talks quickly became rancorous as the Filipino delegation accused the USA of reneging on a 1988 base review agreement which included a commitment to provide $481,000,000 in annual US aid to the Philippines . |
| 30 | He suggests that assignment of specific sense properties in the definitions and then matching on a property-by-property basis may offer the greater degree of constraint necessary . |