Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , they form the foundation blocks to all that follows , and serve as a constant reminder of the need to ensure that we are building on the right foundation and that the materials with which we build have spiritual survival capability ( 1 Cor. |
| 2 | President , with a very heavy heart and bitter disappointment for all our people out there , who are depending on the Social Chapter to give them dignity , safety and a reasonable standar standard of living , I reluctantly withdraw this motion , but I will say this , we live to fight another day . |
| 3 | We will discuss a little later the emotions implications of this but for the moment we are reflecting on the practical issues that overwhelm the bereaved person . |
| 4 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 5 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 6 | He himself says in his 2nd Edition of the Perambulation of Kent , which he revised whilst living here , " At this place of the Bishop in Halling I am drawing on the last scene of my life , where God has given me Liberorum Ouadrigam , all the fruit that I ever had " . |
| 7 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 8 | This device depends on the existence of institutions which can actually adjudicate on and , one hopes , resolve disputes in a relatively impartial way on the basis of impartial rules whose decisions are binding on the parties in question . |
| 9 | If an application is declared admissible , and a friendly settlement can not be achieved , the subsequent decisions of the Court are binding on the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Furthermore , this Convention also requires that acceptance of the right or obligation by the third party organisation be in accordance with its constitutive rules , which again assumes that they are binding on the organisation , although contained in a treaty to which it is not a party . |
| 11 | Most importantly the heads can contain terms that are binding on the vendor and purchaser . |
| 12 | In America it is settled by convention that law is made by statues enacted by Congress or the state legislatures in the manner prescribed by the Constitution , and in England that decisions by the House of Lords are binding on the lower courts . |
| 13 | BGS and the Geological Survey of Ireland are collaborating on the compilation of a new tectonic map of Great Britain , Ireland and the surrounding seas . |
| 14 | He notes that IBM and Apple are collaborating on the PowerPC CPU , and not on systems : Apple boxes will run System 7 , not Pink or any new operating system . |
| 15 | Look for them where fairly large , heavy objects are resting on the soil , for example , under large stones , a garden roller or a log . |
| 16 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 17 | With the Insurance Corporation League beginning in a fortnight 's time , Instonians , like most senior outfits , are experimenting on the opening day of the season to quickly assess their strengths and weaknesses . |
| 18 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 19 | He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide . |
| 20 | Mr Fraser had been walking on the moors with his wife and daughter when he was taken ill at about 5.30pm on Sunday . |
| 21 | Dealing Team , who has been knocking on the door at Hackney , should prove too strong for her rivals on Tuesday 's BAGS card . |
| 22 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 23 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 24 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 25 | Abso , absolutely , you see because if you take — last year we had er one of our winners er a lady called Liz Harris , who 's been knocking on the door and trying to get established as a writer for years and years and years . |
| 26 | When the Chancellor next visits the Duchy of Lancaster , will he kindly explain why the Government are cheating on the RECHAR money and thus depriving the coalfields of Lancashire and Yorkshire of funds that are rightly theirs ? |
| 27 | But Germany and Japan , as well as several other not-so-rich but big countries , are knocking on the door . |
| 28 | We are knocking on the door of the League and I said to him : ‘ Why not do a Barnet here ? ’ ’ |
| 29 | They have claimed the shirts and while there might be those who are knocking on the door , because those who are in are producing the goods , it means they are keeping the door tightly shut at the moment . ’ |
| 30 | The vacancies have been appearing on the notice board . |