Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone is knocking on the door demanding some rent or the mortgage they are more likely to get paid than the borough council . ’ |
| 2 | If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ . |
| 3 | Summat 's moving on the floor and I sort of watch it out the corner of my eye . |
| 4 | Well I think er yeah I definitely have to agree with you that we 're not hearing enough of them but I suppose more and more now people are starting to record you know a little bit more of the older stuff and I think what 's happened on the pop scene that they 've absolutely dried up as regards er creating new music you know and people are going into computerized music now and you know everything is played on the one machine and it 's getting like a er I do n't know it 's as as if you do n't really have to be a musician any more . |
| 5 | I say supposedly , for as all who know Turhan Bey understand , everything is connected on the spiritual plane . |
| 6 | Dell Computer Corp responded to Compaq Computer Corp 's multimedia machine ( see front ) with two new multimedia personal computers of its own , the Valuestation 386 and 486 , priced at $1,500 and $2,000 : the smaller one is based on the Dell System 333s/L , while the Valuestation 486 is based on the Dell snap-together personal computer ; they a factory installed Sound Blaster Pro or Sound Blaster 16 audio board , a CD-ROM drive , speakers , a microphone , applications installed on the hard drive , and CD-based software applications . |
| 7 | The last one is based on the popular song O du lieber Augustin and its exaggerations ( knowing ‘ how far to go too far ’ in Cocteau 's famous phrase ) bring it close to the kind of waltz parody found in the Valses bourgeoises by Lord Berners ( Unicorn-Kanchana , 1/79 — sadly now deleted ) . |
| 8 | Erm next one is thinking on the left |
| 9 | Stac Polly is an extraordinary mountain when seen from a distance and doubly so when one is engaged on the traverse of its narrow ridge . |
| 10 | The discourse of rhetoric ( advertising ) and the discourse of truth ( the news ) are implicitly equated through their juxtaposition , and the purgative action described by the one is operated on the other . |
| 11 | Failure is also an essential part of creativity for if one is working on the creative edge one should be constantly risking failure . |
| 12 | One is clipped on the inside so that the occupants of the cabin may open the hatch and the other is clipped on the outside for rescue from the cockpit . |
| 13 | One is founded on the triumphant rise of natural science since the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | One is hammering on the front door of Elland Road asking to be let in to the VIP suites . |
| 15 | The other one 's staying on the ground . |
| 16 | Something is moving on the ice . |
| 17 | Something is moving on the ice . |
| 18 | There have been several hospitalisations over the past few months , people who entered catatonic states after taking what they believed was E but turned out to be K. Now everybody is jumping on the Ketamine bandwagon . |
| 19 | EVERYBODY is dancing on the grave of Drexel Burnham Lambert — everybody but entrepreneurial America , that is . |
| 20 | Right now the development game is ‘ in ’ and everyone 's jumping on the bandwagon . |
| 21 | Maintaining control over which is the most up-to-date version of the document can be a problem unless there 's centralized organization , logging who 's done what and making sure that everyone 's working on the right version . |
| 22 | Tape back-up units , because if everyone is working on the same set of master files you ca n't afford to lose them |
| 23 | ONE OF the most important lessons of game theory is that even if everyone is agreed on the most desirable course of action — for example , nuclear disarmament — a collection of individuals or nations acting independently may find it difficult to achieve the most desirable aims . |
| 24 | Reliance is placed upon the statutory duty of the Independent Broadcasting Authority to ensure that nothing is transmitted on the commercial airwaves which is in bad taste or is likely to prove offensive to public feeling . |
| 25 | They look at a map , draw a line and produce leaflets but nothing is done on the ground to withstand the pressure of hundreds of people following the route . |
| 26 | Either the magistrate refuses bail and says , effectively , that the court orders that the weekly equivalent of £20,000 a year is spent on the offender until his case is heard , or the court grants bail and orders that nothing is spent on the offender until the case is heard . |
| 27 | After the answers that I have given , I do not know how anyone can say that nothing is happening on the matter . |
| 28 | I 'll post news if anything is mentioned on the 5 o'clock news . |