Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No it 's it 's the one week which bridges the two erm months , but er er I will be , that we would normally be meeting again on the thirteenth of September , would n't we ? |
| 2 | For if he did not , he must be living dishonestly on the means of somebody else . |
| 3 | Francis did n't like to study them too closely : they were even more disturbing than the strange plants that seemed to be growing everywhere on the planet . |
| 4 | Steve Cauthen rode his 163rd winner of the season on My Lord at Leicester , where ten races attracted a crowd of less than 600 , and announced that he would not be riding again on the flat this season . |
| 5 | I would hope that they will , people will not , will be speaking primarily on the variations of the previous speeches that have been made . |
| 6 | Perched on the hillsides are typical old Provençal villages , some , like Oppéde-le-Vieux , crumbling , haunted , half-deserted , others like Bonnieux with a flourishing modern village built below the old one , and up beyond Apt , through the dramatic stretch of ochre-mining country , the strange red-gold village of Roussillon appears to be toppling precariously on the edge of a craggy cliff . |
| 7 | By calculating which gods would be marching together on a given day , the priests could determine the combined influence of all marchers and thus forecast the fate of mankind . |
| 8 | Those who act at the place of business must be doing so on the business of the company and not their own account ; the crucial question has been said to be , ‘ Does the agent in carrying out the foreign corporation 's business make a contract for the corporation , or does the agent in carrying out his own business , sell a contract for the foreign corporation ? ’ . |
| 9 | We will be consulting widely on the best way to distribute the proceeds of a lottery . |
| 10 | ‘ They would be sitting together on the sofa feeling romantic and giving each other cuddles . |
| 11 | Night would be falling soon on the planet . |
| 12 | The legality of these road-blocks was not tested in court ; the police claimed to be relying both on the Road Traffic Act and on the breach of the peace power as it had been developed during the miners ' strike ( see below ) . |
| 13 | The nuances are often quite subtle , but the following example shows how the press is trying to construct a sex maniac , while the police seem to be thinking more on the lines of an abductor without sexual assault necessarily being involved . |