Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you realize — all this was going on exactly the same last March ? |
| 2 | It seems to me , everything 's going on just the same as it was before . |
| 3 | The man under discussion in the White House was , at that moment , dwelling on precisely the same subject . |
| 4 | We laboured for her because we liked her , but she tolerated no lazy work : she was a perfectionist and she had taste , insisting on only the best materials , which was unusual in the suburbs , where Victorian or Edwardian houses were generally smashed open and stripped bare , only to be filled with chipboard and Formica . |
| 5 | On the other hand , massed fire from several cannons can be devastating on even the largest enemy units . |
| 6 | For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate . |
| 7 | By concentrating on only the fastest of fast-moving consumer goods , they keep their stock at a minimum — often selling it before having to pay suppliers . |
| 8 | Dr Reading and the Swedish scientists began their work independently , neither knowing that the other was working on virtually the same project . |