Example sentences of "were [v-ing] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adoption is different from novation and also appears to be distinguishable from merely acting as though the contract were binding on the company . |
| 2 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 3 | One dull afternoon , on the last day of October , he and Willie were kneeling on the window ledge in the sitting room of the Littles ' cottage . |
| 4 | As her eyes grew more accustomed to the hellish gloom , Tallis could see how many of these forlorn corpses were gathering on the north bank of the river . |
| 5 | They were gathering on the Strip , in the coffee houses like the Unicorn , Mac 's , Luan 's and the Renaissance . |
| 6 | With relentless detail she documented the effects that the petrochemical ‘ elixirs of death ’ — ; the pesticides which farmers still regard as an integral part of modern agriculture — were wreaking on the wildlife of the countryside . |
| 7 | It were a month after they first started playing with the machine that someone hears one of the tunes they were singing on the wireless set . ’ |
| 8 | Her feet were resting on a step-ladder . |
| 9 | Under their Chairman , Arthur Allen , the District 's committee raised a series of questions about the negotiated settlement and were unbending on the issue of retention of the District 's autonomy in all its affairs and highly critical of the failure to secure the appointment of Jacques as a joint |
| 10 | ‘ This girl and her brother were driving on a stretch of road that does n't exist anymore . |
| 11 | Actually , it was an inspired gamble — in his first , albeit injury-hit , season in 1991 Taylor took 54 wickets and last year he grabbed 67 in Northants ' championship chase and suddenly Ted Dexter and the England selectors were knocking on the door . |
| 12 | When the receivers were knocking on the door he sold John Collins , Paul Kane and Andy Goram . |
| 13 | Hollies were dying on the granite outcrop of Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire . |
| 14 | The trouble was that the polymers were landing on the surface of the tooth ‘ like a plate of spaghetti ’ . |
| 15 | As with the first beams , they were landing on the side of the bullseye closest to the rear of the craft . |
| 16 | Already the Fists were disembarking on the double . |
| 17 | The Socialists were trading on the giving of relief … |
| 18 | Several witnesses said driving conditions were appalling on the night of the accident . |
| 19 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 20 | Further on , a hundred yards off-shore , as if he were walking on the water , his companion disturbed the glass-still lagoon as he strode through the shallows over a sand bar . |
| 21 | When fellow platoon-members wondered why they were there , fighting primitive jungle wars nobody at home seemed to care for when men were walking on the moon , North could not understand them . |
| 22 | The demonstrators came despite pelting snow and rumours that tanks and armoured vehicles were lurking on the city outskirts . |
| 23 | The demonstrators came despite pelting snow and rumours that tanks and armoured vehicles were lurking on the city outskirts . |
| 24 | King penguins were nesting on the hare ground a short walk from our landing beach , and while some still had eggs ( which are hatched on top of the feet under a fold of skin on the belly ) , others already had young , some of whom had developed brown down which made them look like teddy bears ! |
| 25 | Doyle dreaded to think of how many mistakes were appearing on the court transcript , each time she looked up at the corner of the room , where the CI5 men sat , and found two youthful , smiling faces , fixing her with meaningful looks . |
| 26 | Others were appearing on the scene to lend help in forming a crowd , but Jude ignored their stares and headed across the street , Marlin at her side . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , new problems of access were appearing on the horizon , as were issues of cost containment . |
| 28 | I think it was probably the other day because erm the wa the ducks were swimming on the road at er six o'clock just on the road near the baths |
| 29 | Women were remarking on the window hangings — ‘ You could hang my whole downstairs with one of those red curtains , ’ said Mary McCulloch , ‘ and have a length left over for the beds . ’ |
| 30 | But the paper was so damp that his pen merely furrowed it , as if he were writing on a slab of butter . |