Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 2 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 3 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 4 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 5 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 6 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 7 | It is in the interview that many of these aspects of the post are checked on with the candidate . |
| 8 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 9 | Sir Geoffrey is also required to examine the basis on which share deals which are carried on outside the Exchange can be handled by the new clearing house . |
| 10 | And all of these functions are carried on by the ego . |
| 11 | That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today . |
| 12 | Lateral and medial stabilisers are incorporated on to the outsole to prevent rollover while the design features a flex notch , which has been cut into the outsole to counter any restriction of movement . |
| 13 | But what commits the muscle to this final pathway and what ensures that all the necessary genes are turned on at the same time ? |
| 14 | Candidates from both the UK and overseas are accepted on to the full-time programme . |
| 15 | In some roofs tiles are hung on to the battens with only every third row nailed . |
| 16 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |
| 17 | ‘ And those statistics are transferred on to the computer ? ’ |
| 18 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 19 | Yeah so we get one and the you 're going on to the next one . |
| 20 | Sunday night rounds the event off with a bizarre juxtaposing of gigs : downstairs in the main hall it 's Mayhem Central , where the venue 's somewhat implausible design means that unless you 're stuffed on to the raised dancefloor you can see bugger all of the bands . |
| 21 | ‘ I see you 're getting on with the boots for Edward Morris 's nephew , doing a good job too by the look of it . ’ |
| 22 | It 's all to do with GCSE coursework and see how we 're getting on during the two weeks and we get experience for us when we leave school and go to work . |
| 23 | Johnson , just debating , we 're getting on to the whole idea of Johnson 's world and the link though it worked out the same I 'd say . |
| 24 | ‘ In fact , we 're staying on at the end of this trip to do the world cruise . ’ |
| 25 | We 're moving on to the next paper . |
| 26 | And the mono thing worked ; we found it was a format we could really use well , so for the time being we 're carrying on down the path . |
| 27 | It 's just something which is so big , that for the problem we 're working on at the moment , you 'd be there forever , or you 'd be there from here to the moon or something . |
| 28 | Pack some clothes , and whatever you need to finish the illustrations you 're working on at the moment , then we 'll leave . ’ |
| 29 | Right , erh what I 'd like to do then is er I say could you just introduce yourself or what you 're working on at the moment where you work and then the sort of presentations that you make er and then give us one of your objectives so that by the time we 've got right round the room we 'll er hopefully have everybody . |
| 30 | Still , I suppose you would have to develop a certain detachment , otherwise you 'd never be able to carry on with what you 're working on at the moment . ’ |