Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 2 | But while County are tipped to go up this time , Francis could be stepping on to a bigger stage before next spring . |
| 3 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 4 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 5 | ‘ At the moment the bill looks likely to receive the royal assent in early April , so if the election is later than that then we will be pressing on with the plans . |
| 6 | What makes sense therefore , is to put the work organiser at either end of the binder , to build those up , so that pages where you really will be writing on in the binder , which are the diary pages will become elevated towards the middle of the rings , and make that much easier to write on . |
| 7 | Gill will be going on to the Namarroi area to take part in an evaluation with the CCM . |
| 8 | The history specialists in the secondary school for the area may also be able to offer advice , especially as pupils from the catchment area will ultimately be going on to the secondary school . |
| 9 | A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force . |
| 10 | He does n't know of the possibly criminal activities which may be going on under the cover of the Ingard group — and I can t at present discuss such matters with him . |
| 11 | ‘ Danny will be going on about the fair all night now , ’ said David as the bus disappeared through the factory gates , then as they turned away he asked , ‘ Are you on duty tomorrow ? ’ |
| 12 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 13 | In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism . |
| 14 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 15 | She said although yesterday 's Drinkwise Day was a focus to promote awareness of sensible drinking levels the campaign would be going on throughout the year . |
| 16 | And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words ? |
| 17 | That is inevitable when we are dealing with official bodies , but please be assured that a lot of work will be going on behind the scenes . |
| 18 | And that takes us to the question of what it is that might be going on behind the screen — a question which leads not only forward and to Ulysses and beyond , but backwards , into a reconsideration of Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist . |
| 19 | Jack will be staying on in a consultative position until early next year to help his successor through the opening months of his term . |
| 20 | So you wo n't have to shuffle the chops or the toast , when you could be getting on with the vegetables . |
| 21 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 22 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 23 | getting fed up Okay just to finish up now , because we 're gon na be moving on in a minute . |
| 24 | It 's a bit late to be coming on like the Angel in the House now . ’ |
| 25 | Looking at the best of chemical engineering within AEA is what the Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service will be focusing on in a two day conference starting on 30 November 1993 . |
| 26 | As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit . |
| 27 | Sensationally , The Smiths would not be carrying on as a band at all . |
| 28 | And that 's an arrangement which will be carrying on over the next few years . |
| 29 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 30 | That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools . |