Example sentences of "we [be] [v-ing] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are calling on all victims of capitalist oppression in Britain to : Join the campaign to defend the Cape Town Sixteen and give expression to the demands of youth in Britain . |
| 2 | We are calling on all our helpers , both adults and children , who enjoy music , to spread the word or the song . |
| 3 | We are building on this . |
| 4 | ‘ The players need to feel confident and secure in their positions and we are counting on those players who did not come up to expectation against Scotland , to make up for it against Ireland . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We are living on enough credit as it is . ’ |
| 6 | We are dwelling on this basic chemistry because it is highly relevant to the study of ecology . |
| 7 | As you can see , we are embarking on another of those astronomical calculations . |
| 8 | We are working on that one . |
| 9 | At the moment , sad to say that physical vertical is the most effective means of slowing people down and and narrowings and visual erm signs and that kind of thing , road markings , do not have the same effect er but we are working on that and hopefully in our next batch of schemes we will start to experiment with things like speed cushions and what have you which , which have a lesser effect on , on erm on both minibuses and buses . |
| 10 | Stockton Borough Council leader Bob Gibson said : ‘ We are working on some excellent and imaginative schemes ’ . |
| 11 | We are working on Half Fisherman 's rib and making a garment . |
| 12 | He called on the government and the EC to ‘ deal with this awful situation where we are sitting on such a mountain of food while millions are starving ’ . |
| 13 | We 're building on this success to provide customers with the highest standards we can offer . |
| 14 | We really need a bit of time to evaluate that and that 's the qualification that we 're putting on that . |
| 15 | I think I 'm right in saying Madam Chairman that y of those first seven we 've still got two schemes in still to come and there was one in erm so I look forward to the progress and er that we 're making on this and all I can say is |
| 16 | We 're sitting on that , of course . |
| 17 | What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about . |
| 18 | But we 're working on that . |
| 19 | Mid-January we 're working on that , suggestion forms , three quality completers , I 've put that in the revised list of people coming round in these minutes . |
| 20 | I hope we were n't discussing what I thought we were discussing on that |
| 21 | ‘ But within half-an-hour we were firing on all cylinders again . ’ |
| 22 | And we were dancing on that bit you see . |