Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 2 | Over 5,000 students are registered worldwide on the Masters programme , the majority studying the Distance Learning MBA . |
| 3 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 4 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 6 | Did you realise that 43 per cent of all sociological surveys are carried out on the M1 , M4 and M6 ? |
| 7 | Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed . |
| 8 | Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them . |
| 9 | The arms carry spines ; in euryalid genera on the ventral part of the arm , while in the ophiurids they are carried laterally on the lateral arm plates . |
| 10 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 11 | ( The abacus beads are scattered randomly on the wires of the abacus . ) |
| 12 | Service points outside the ‘ central ’ library are grouped together on the familiar area basis . |
| 13 | For each , engineering geology maps of the solid and superficial deposits are prepared on which materials are grouped together on the basis of their engineering characteristics . |
| 14 | They will also fit the 6 cylinder 109 if the bell housing is changed and the engine mounts are moved back on the chassis . |
| 15 | They are done weekly on the radio in the lunch hour , and people listen to them in factories by the million . |
| 16 | Operation ‘ Winch ’ , ' 3 April 1941. the first Hurricane IIA aircraft to be delivered to Malta are seen here on the dock of H.M.S. Ark Royal' . |
| 17 | Subsidies are granted only on the agreement that a set percentage of any budget must be spent in Hamburg . |
| 18 | The followers or ‘ administrative staff are selected not on the basis of status or qualification , but according to personal devotion . |
| 19 | Thieblot and Haggard emphasise that these observations are made only on the basis of ‘ preliminary analysis ’ and do not offer any empirical validation . |
| 20 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn 's books , for example , are selling well on the street stalls ; so are the works of Mikhail Bulgakov and the poet Osip Mandelstam . |
| 21 | Slime algae should be removed as it may actually grow over the encrusting species which , of course , are growing directly on the substrate , to their obvious detriment . |
| 22 | The procedures of the 1981 Act ensure that statements are drawn up on the basis of the pupil 's individual needs , but with the general aim of ensuring , as far as possible , an education comparable with that of the pupil 's age group in the mainstream . |
| 23 | Oh no , look buns are going off on the floor everywhere ! |
| 24 | As the ballot papers are going out on the twenty sixth ? |
| 25 | Howard sits up front with a shotgun grazing his earlobe , whilst Miki , Emma , Chris and myself are squashed in on the back seat , staring through the grating at the road ahead . |
| 26 | The steering wheels are mounted directly on the trailer . |
| 27 | And the more poor little Britain takes a battering , the more bombs that are called down on the wreck of London , the sooner it will be . |
| 28 | Inside the hive , where the dance is performed , it is dark and the bees are moving around on the vertical wall of the honeycomb . |
| 29 | The chosen one then becomes the parent of the next generation , and a litter of its mutant children are displayed simultaneously on the screen . |
| 30 | Decompression times are scrolled through on the display for repetitive dive planning . |