Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in its emphases on Aegidius and on the Thuringians , the story of Childeric 's exile does seem to be drawing on real events . |
| 2 | When I suggest to Hopkins that many abductees could in fact be drawing on repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse and , as a result of bad hypnosis , end up believing mistakenly that they were messed around with by aliens instead , he agrees it 's a possibility , but then argues that some cases of childhood sexual abuse may in fact be alien abductions . |
| 3 | In conducting this study the researcher will be drawing on previous work on the relationship between science , technology , industry and the military in Britain |
| 4 | The MPRP needs to improve itself and at the same time if new parties are formed for the interest of the people and the country , they should be competing on equal terms . " |
| 5 | Some had five eyes and mouths like elephants ' trunks , and yet others appeared to be walking on stilt-like appendages , and had heads with no features at all , not even mouths . |
| 6 | About half of the travelling families were found to be living on official local authority sites with only 28 per cent living on derelict land . |
| 7 | You 'll be living on fresh air soon if you 're not careful . ’ |
| 8 | However , Berry and Crothers ( 1968 ) demonstrated strong stabilising selection to be operating on exposed headlands in Pembrokeshire ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 9 | And abruptly , from what buried part of her muddled brain she had no idea , she found herself shaking her head , reaching out a hand which seemed to be operating on automatic pilot . |
| 10 | There will not therefore be testing on specific days , or just for P4 and P7 groups , but Testing can apply to any class at any time . |
| 11 | Embroiderer and writer Beryl Dean will be speaking on Present Day Ecclesiastic Embroidery . |
| 12 | The American Gas Association has predicted that at least 10 million vehicles in the US will be running on alternative fuel by the start of next century , as the industry develops non-petrol substitutes in response to tough anti-pollution regulations introduced in several states , notably California and Texas . |
| 13 | That means 13 million cars , more than half the total in Britain , could easily be running on unleaded fuel now , yet sales of unleaded six months after the budget still only amounted to 20 per cent of total fuel revenue . |
| 14 | IRA terrorists from the North may be travelling on British passports . |
| 15 | Elsewhere , there may be opportunities for readers and skills titles in southern Africa , although most publishers will be focusing on other areas of their list . |
| 16 | He also seemed to indicate that , despite press reports , it would not be treading on General Magic 's toes either . |
| 17 | To me , northwest Africa is part of Europe and either the division is farther south or , if they must be sailing on different plates , then those plates were very close together long before the Alpine convulsions . |
| 18 | They are shortly to be voting on new student dress regulations that will allow school principals to ban the sign from their institutions . |
| 19 | It 's going to be much colder at altitude than on the ground , but one help is the fact that you move with the wind , so you do n't get so much of a wind chill factor as you are on the ground , and we 'll be putting on extra layers when we actually take off , so we hope we 'll be warm enough . |
| 20 | Britain 's 1955 claim to Rockall , which could be sitting on oil-rich reserves , is disputed by Ireland , Iceland and Denmark . |
| 21 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 22 | This seemed to be falling on deaf ears . |
| 23 | Little Vicky , and she 'd be standing on tip-toe to see over the fence , and not even dressed yet . |
| 24 | In a large team effort , different people can be working on separate aspects of a design , with changes rapidly distributed to all of them . |
| 25 | Erm , it 's certainly true that we reduced the total size of a particular team or unit dealing with international affairs , but only on the grounds that we actually felt that it was very important that all the teams should be working on international and European dimensions of their work , rather than seeing it as compartmentalised in one area . |
| 26 | Every group can be tackling the same problem , or different groups can be working on different improvisations . |
| 27 | Probably 12 months from now , I wo n't be doing any acquisitions but will instead be concentrating on internal growth . ’ |
| 28 | The enormous expansion of higher education since 1960 has arguably provided a further extension of opportunity , but it has not succeeded in developing parity of esteem with universities for institutions supposed to be concentrating on vocational and technical education — an aspect which , once again , has invited numerous international comparisons [ Postan , 1967 ; Robbins , 1963 ] . |
| 29 | We should be concentrating on particular aspects of school life , not producing information which already exists and duplicating it . |