Example sentences of "[v-ing] on the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The youth team , all drawn from non-rugby playing schools , improved greatly after half-time and spent long periods pressing on the schools ' line .
2 Writing on the boys ' club movement in 1904 , W. J. Braithwaite thought that ‘ itis dangerous for the club and the boys that many of them should have tasted too much of freedom ’ .
3 The erosion has created a fan of scree which is rapidly encroaching on the Lovers ' walk path .
4 In reporting on the children 's work he noted this : If any society wanted to perpetuate notions of female fickleness and the importance of accepting the proprietorial bias of moral authority , then here is a tale for the purpose .
5 It was still possible to study natural objects without infringing on the theologians ' treatment of those same objects as signs of God .
6 This study breaks new ground in drawing on the women 's memories of the caring experience once it is over .
7 However , depending on the mothers ' age at birth of the infant , the rate of decrease was not uniform and , as a consequence , the shape of the curves representing the relationship between infant mortality and maternal age has been somewhat modified .
8 The N.C.M.A. thinks that a minimum of £17 a week per child for full-time care is reasonable , but you could charge more depending on the parents ' earnings and the number of meals provided etc .
9 And while there was some variation depending on the students ' IT subject area , other than in the still numerically small area of IKBS/MMI/AI , in no other subject did the proportion of SERC-funded students seeking employment fall below one quarter .
10 After lunch we have a quiet period before we begin any afternoon activities , this could involve any one of the following : 1 Walk 2 Visit a local park or the coast 3 Board games 4 Hairdresser 5 Nails manicured 6 Sing song 7 Musical entertainment 8 Dance 9 Reminiscence sessions and many more depending on the clients ' needs and capabilities .
11 while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck .
12 Published reports rarely comment on evidence for the function of domestic pottery , and unlike studies of later medieval pottery the presence or absence of sooting on the vessels ' surfaces is not always commented on .
13 When everyone is fit , I 'm usually the one sitting on the substitutes ' bench .
14 Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them .
15 if necessary , negotiating on the farmers ' proposals .
16 Concentrating on the foreigners ' comic aspects , Mr Coleman passes over , in almost complete silence , the Assembly 's preoccupation with the environment , drugs , Aids and human rights , questions at the top of the agenda for the UN .
17 A special edition of With Great Pleasure invites locally-born writer Wally K Daly , currently working on the children 's TV drama series Byker Grove , with his own selection of poetry and prose , on Wednesday at Stockton Parish Church .
18 Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine .
19 The small number of area health board staff working on the schools ' programmes makes it impossible for them to cater for individual classroom visits .
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