Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [adv] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banks too are muscling in on insurance , mainly on the life side , to keep customers ' savings ‘ in the family ’ . |
| 2 | And , with this poise in front of the cameras , it surely wo n't be long before they are muscling in on mum and dad . |
| 3 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support for the document that we are publishing today on hospital hostels . |
| 4 | If you are going away on holiday like I go away on holiday and probably some your colleagues and you 're going abroad for two three weeks , it makes commonsense to try and protect your home as soon as you possibly , as much as you can by isolating the risk . |
| 5 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 6 | Whether you are going abroad on holiday or business , The Royal Bank of Scotland allows you to relax in the knowledge that everything has been taken care of ; travellers cheques and eurocheques , foreign currency , Access , Visa and travel insurance . |
| 7 | Doing it for real : forget well-toned bodies and cute faces , America 's home porn addicts are getting off on sex between Mr and Mrs Average ( and we mean average ) |
| 8 | Once the young are feeding happily on flake they require no special treatment ; a larger tank will soon be needed , and regular partial water changes will encourage rapid growth and good health . |
| 9 | Tobacco kills vitamins and lowers the body 's resistance to disease , particularly to air-borne viruses — a side effect you should be aware of if you are cutting down on body-building food intake — and it also has a depressant effect on appetite . |
| 10 | A survey has found that people under 24 are cutting down on alcohol . |
| 11 | With vowels you are relying more on sound ( or memory of sound ) and on appearance than on the feeling of the movements of your own ‘ speech organs ’ . |
| 12 | Although to my knowledge no digital scanner has yet succeeded in penetrating the ravages of gall , that most seductive and most lethal of enhancing media so widely used by 19th-century archivists , electronic cameras and image processors are working effectively on fire damage , glue and other forms of obliteration . |
| 13 | The project we 're hoping to sponsor , there 's now Friends of the Earth in Ghana , erm who 've Doctor Plumtree quite rightly said , Ghana are working hard on re-forestation schemes , and a scheme that Friends of the Earth is doing is a community re- forestation scheme , because a lot of the re-forestation schemes are from the top down , and they do n't actually get the villagers involved in whatever , so we 'll actually be funding community reforestation schemes , several species of trees , particularly those which help to regenerate the soil , especially if it 's been degraded because the trees have been chopped down , or what-have-you . |