Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ premises ’ as defined in Article 2(2) ‘ includes any place and , in particular , includes any vehicle , vessel , aircraft or hovercraft , any installation on land ( including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water ) , any offshore installation , and any other installation ( whether floating , or resting on the seabed or the subsoil thereof , or resting on other land covered with water or the subsoil thereof ) , and any tent or movable structure . ’ |
| 2 | 17.2 No amendment or modification of this agreement shall be valid or binding on any party unless the same : |
| 3 | Think about cycling more , or travelling on public transport |
| 4 | Limitations obviously exist , e.g. the amount and cost of necessary winter feed ( or wintering on other land ) and consideration of carcase quality when livestock are slaughtered . |
| 5 | By now I was talking and singing on automatic pilot whilst my heart and brain were thudding with a heady mixture of adrenalin . |
| 6 | There 's a lot of banging and crashing on this tape . |
| 7 | There was an incapable sleeper somewhere in his mind , a sleeper bruised and tossing on heaped feather mattresses , the Real Princess , suffering the muffled pea . |
| 8 | Everything we 've heard today this afternoon shows the disinclination of the County Planning Department to be flexible and enabling on this matter . |
| 9 | They showed little awareness of , or interest in , HMI surveys and official reports , let alone other published research and writing on primary education . |
| 10 | Research and writing on this subject has concentrated almost exclusively on abuse by family members and most of it occurs in the domestic setting . |
| 11 | A ‘ new illegal Party ’ , it was somewhat picturesquely alleged , seemed in the process of creation out of all those — evidently disparate individuals and groups — united in their opposition to National Socialism and forming on that basis their assessment of domestic politics and the war situation . |
| 12 | Since they will not be viewing the whole picture comprehensively , since they will perforce be selectively choosing values and acting on limited information , it is all the more important that the reasons why they have chosen a particular course of conduct should be articulated . |
| 13 | This involves cleaning the ends of the pipe with solvent cleaner and brushing on solvent-weld cement . |
| 14 | Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another . |
| 15 | They would , in fact , be local people , able to look at local problems with local knowledge , and deciding on that basis , individual treatment in the best interests of the child . |
| 16 | It provided corporates with a fast and easy-to-use PC network-based solution to the problem of obtaining and reporting on financial information from their domestic and international subsidiaries . |
| 17 | There was an initial suspicion among teachers at all levels , including some heads , that coordinators were agents of the LEA , charged with identifying and reporting on inappropriate practice . |
| 18 | Keeping records of personnel , updating them and reporting on this information is the foundation of any personnel system . |
| 19 | ‘ Death and suffering on this scale , ’ says Mr James Grant , executive director of the UN Children 's Fund , ‘ is simply no longer necessary . ’ |
| 20 | Statistical data indicate that the UK has a low proportion of its 16 , 17 and 18 year olds undergoing education compared with most western industrialized countries other than Spain and Portugal ; however , a thorough review of eight measures of participation and spending on higher education showed varying results on different measures ( Department of Education and Science , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | The prolonged recession wrecked Government finances , as income from taxation fell and spending on social security rose . |
| 22 | Geoff Esland points out that since the 1946 National Health Service Act levels of pay and conditions of work in the medical profession , and spending on medical research , have been largely determined by central government . |
| 23 | Alt ( 1971 , p. 60 ) has likewise shown that before Health Service reorganization in 1974 there was a ‘ consistent , positive and generally significant correlation between Labour representation and spending on local health services ’ . |
| 24 | Jostling , raspberrying and treading on each other 's toes , they crowded round their officer to hear what he had to say . |
| 25 | The company troubled by problems of getting the database off the mainframe and running on local area networks and Unix , did n't expect the modifications to be so extensive . |
| 26 | The approach to teaching and learning on this course is developmental and therefore the students in a particular year group work with the same team of tutors who cover all aspects of learning and of educational provision for young children — including the development of language and literacy . |
| 27 | ’ British pop evolved from R&B dance culture , but while the working classes were coming home from the factory and putting on some Motown , the people who now run record companies were at university listening to Genesis or Peter Frampton or whatever — their only contact with pop culture was Gary Glitter or Sweet . |
| 28 | She bustled around , chucking her tights in the corner and putting on old ballet leggings and socks with holes in to keep warm . |
| 29 | Nicky was gasping , throwing Maria and Luke a quick apologetic glance and standing on one leg to examine an elegant leather shoe as the door closed . |
| 30 | He followed a network of country lanes and the occasional field path and by four fifteen was safe in Ulster and standing on British soil . |