Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aberdeen Oil Company , which was awarded the main £60m terminal contract , and McLean , are committed to taking on as many local workers as possible for the 600–700 construction vacancies . |
| 2 | Timing is critical : many meetings are marred by going on and on . |
| 3 | The questions at the end of each chapter have been designed to assist students to test that the reading has been understood before moving on to the next chapter . |
| 4 | With the move towards disintermediation , it could be argued that many banks are driven to taking on less credit-worthy customers , with associated increases in credit risk . |
| 5 | These characteristics lead to a generally well-controlled and efficient method of production , whose main disadvantage is the time-delay caused by the queueing effect of individual units waiting for the batch to be completed before moving on to the next operation . |
| 6 | Erikson suggests that at different phases of life an individual faces a particular psycho-social problem which needs to be resolved before moving on to the next phase . |
| 7 | Jumpman lives is another excellent game from Apogee which gives you the arcade action of video games combined with the brain teasing problems to be solved before carrying on to the next stage . |
| 8 | However , if the tooth is knocked out completely , little additional damage can be done by fighting on . |
| 9 | ‘ Modest good may be done by signing on ; much damage would be done if we do not , ’ he argues . |
| 10 | But under contracting regulations , companies would have to match current pay and conditions and may be deterred from taking on Westminster employees . |
| 11 | As one who grew up in the Dark Ages and is , as a result , spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred , I regularly find myself cringing at the sight of moaning footballers and speculating , in a twisted fashion , on how much better they might play if all the energy spent on operating the jaws were to be concentrated on getting on with the game . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , just as ways have somehow to be found of taking on the sexually ( or racially ) abusive language heard in the classroom , so , surely , ways have to be found of taking on sexually ( or racially ) abusive language read out to pupils from class novels . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , just as ways have somehow to be found of taking on the sexually ( or racially ) abusive language heard in the classroom , so , surely , ways have to be found of taking on sexually ( or racially ) abusive language read out to pupils from class novels . |
| 14 | ‘ John has a better chance of being released if the kidnappers realize there is nothing to be gained by hanging on to him . |
| 15 | Yet others may be thinking of going on to more formal education , and treat a year with the OCA as an introduction to their particular interest . |
| 16 | In some cases joint ventures between the private sector and the NHS are succeeding in taking on areas which are proving too costly or cumbersome for the NHS alone . |
| 17 | Not that she is a vicious cat : quite the contrary , but claws are meant for holding on , are n't they ? |
| 18 | Bottles and cans started to fly as the Indians were stopped from running on to the pitch to mob the batsmen by burly stewards . |
| 19 | Other Commissariats were accused of holding on to rolling-stock that should be handed back now the war was over . |
| 20 | Wives and mothers of British seamen were reported as incensed , not only by the low pay of their menfolk , but also by the medical examination to which they were subjected on signing on , " mauled about and handled as though they were a piece of New Zealand mutton " . |
| 21 | Tell you what , Jacqui and I were thinking of tootling on to the midnight matinee at the Parthenon after this lot . |
| 22 | My immediate fear was being banned from going on so I did n't mention the problem . |
| 23 | Ramsay decided and declared that he had been mistaken in staying on in Berwick thus long . |
| 24 | If you are thinking of heading on towards the Capital there 's no such problems there , the M4 the M40 and the M25 running quite nicely this evening . |
| 25 | After all , as he had said — and now every word of our conversation came back to me as clearly as if played back on a tape — a woman has a right to decide , on the basis of her own capacity to cope with the situation , whether she is justified in going on with it . |
| 26 | The Aberdeen Oil Company , which was awarded the main £60m terminal contract , and McLean , is committed to taking on as many local workers as possible for the construction work . |
| 27 | Now , before he has even turned 11 , he is faced with taking on his grandmother 's burdens far earlier than anyone imagined . |
| 28 | Dave Bull , who many of you will know as a fanatical ‘ Stiff ’ and athlete in his own right , has been banned from carrying on shot-putt practice in the bar . |
| 29 | Wear on leather soled shoes was saved by sticking on over soles made from pieces of old tyre inner tubes . |
| 30 | He was disqualified for leaning on after receiving three warnings in the third round of an absorbing light middleweight semi-final against John Mett of the Phil Thomas School of Boxing . |