Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [subord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They 're part of a re-organisation which has been going on since the Nationwide merged with the Anglia Building Society five years ago . |
2 | If the Minister for Sport was on the Treasury Bench , I would ask him — instead , I ask all hon. Members and the country — what is going on when the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation puts his name and that of his organisation to a positive argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship in sport ? |
3 | In education , since 1979 the percentage of pupils staying on until the fifth year has increased from 35 per cent . |
4 | I felt a migraine coming on as the old girl began to wail and Zylpha screamed a torrent of abuse . |
5 | And now the fat bellies in the cities are carrying on where the white folk left off . |
6 | Ken Tyson recreates the advanced projects that Japan was working on before the atomic bombs brought World War Two to a close . |