Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while computing conversion and specialist students were seeking work in similar proportions , there were marked differences in their propensities to actually be in work or to be carrying on their studies , as Tables 4.8 and 4.9 show . |
| 2 | The company shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern . |
| 3 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 4 | Where the English partners of these enterprises are carrying on their practice as English solicitors they will be bound by the Overseas Practice Rules 1990 as well as by the local laws of the countries in which they operate . |
| 5 | I mean the doors were hanging on their hinges then , things like that . |
| 6 | Clutching her bag , she tried to get up again , but they were hanging on her shoulders . |
| 7 | Fifty-five students , 9 per cent , were carrying on their studies on completion of the IT Advanced Course . |
| 8 | The customers were carrying on their conversations . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's hanging on my bike in the yard , inside a roll of lino . ’ |
| 10 | For no apparent reason it was hanging on my head like lank seaweed ; I could n't make it puff out in a way that hid my ears properly . |
| 11 | My hands left the gun hanging in mid-air above my knees and went for the catapult , which as always was hanging on my belt , the arm-rest stuck down between that and my cords . |
| 12 | Kate felt her cheeks tinge once more with pink as she went on listening to the good-natured chaff Mike Booker was taking on her behalf . |
| 13 | The position might be more delicate if , say , a central purpose of the exchange 's action was to affect a particular non-member , or the way in which it was carrying on its business . |
| 14 | Now , in 31 and 32 , lived a prosperous widow , the widow of a butcher , a mistress Jane Hawks , who was carrying on her husbands business , and doing quite well at it . |
| 15 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |