Example sentences of "are [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 2 | The genuine popularity of the Prince , his self-evident concern and compassion , and events like his fortieth birthday party ( held in a Birmingham tram shed ) are drawing on new sources of support for the institution of monarchy beyond the recesses of middle-class dreaming . |
| 3 | Their decisions are binding on industrial tribunals and have had a significant impact on managerial practices by major employers . |
| 4 | Many of the gifts in the catalogue are also available from the National Trust property shops , some of which are opening on selected days for Christmas shopping ( see back of the catalogue for details ) . |
| 5 | Experts from the world 's biggest wildlife hospital say they ca n't reach many of the seals , which are dying on inaccessible rocks . |
| 6 | We all want to do a mighty work for God , but do not realise that we are living on privatised religious estates on the outskirts of the city of the world . |
| 7 | the old people and the people that are , are living on low incomes . |
| 8 | She explained : ‘ People are paying a lot of money for very little heat , they are living on low incomes or benefits in houses with no insulation and poor heating systems . |
| 9 | The agency says fathers were paying much too little , ninety percent of the mothers are living on social security , so are be definition far poorer than their ex-husbands , and that the formula always leaves the second family better off than the first . |
| 10 | Some elderly people who are living on reduced incomes have good reason to worry about money , particularly when they live alone . |
| 11 | Only a bone-headed Government would not accept that , by taking away young people 's ability to claim benefit and housing benefit and the opportunity to receive a decent reward for a training scheme , and by halving the value of the training allowance in the past 12 years , they are picking on young people who , at the same time , are being pushed ever further towards the consumer society . |
| 12 | Police in Hemel Hempstead are asking shoppers and pubgoers to watch videos of missing four year old Simon Jones which are going on public view . |
| 13 | COMPAQ 's HOPES IN JAPAN ARE RIDING ON AMBITIOUS TRADING HOUSE UCHIDA YOKO |
| 14 | ‘ We wish to stress that our discussions are proceeding on amicable terms and there will be further visits to Darlington Civic Theatre . ’ |
| 15 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 16 | The Liverpool lecturers are calling on vice chancellor Peter Toyne to join them in putting pressure on the government to end underfunding . |
| 17 | AS details are being worked out to develop even closer working relationships with social services , health , education and the police , the NSPCC in this area are calling on political parties to put children high on the general election agenda . |
| 18 | Boatmen are calling on local authorities to clean-up an historic section of a two hundred year old waterway . |
| 19 | Now they are calling on local businesses to offer support . |
| 20 | LoPresti and propeller manufacturer Hartzell are co-operating on new cowling/propeller/spinner designs for single and Twin Comanches which they predict will increase their maximum speeds by 42 mph and 35 mph respectively , through reduced drag and more efficient use of propeller airflow . |
| 21 | English Nature , the Countryside Commission and local farmers are co-operating on appropriate grazing of the marshes on the English side . |
| 22 | I would question this , as I feel we are treading on dangerous ground if we even contemplate trying to impose our values in this way , however strongly we feel personally . |
| 23 | Thus , for example , if we wished to know how much we are spending on orthopaedic surgery , the departmental analysis of expenditure will not tell us . |
| 24 | It is now necessary to consider when a commercial transaction is so structured that it can not be said that the parties are dealing on standard terms at all . |
| 25 | Houston , Texas-based IMSL Inc and Precision Visuals Inc , Boulder , Colorado are merging on undisclosed terms to create a new $38m-a-year company called Visual Numerics Inc : headquartered in the Texas cow-town , Visual Numerics will bring together IMSL 's application development tools for numerical and graphical applications in science , engineering and business with Precision Visuals ' Visual Data Analysis software for application developers and end users . |
| 26 | Information technology lies at the heart of almost all current projects and international initiatives such as the International Organisation for Plant Information ( IOPI ) are converging on common approaches . |
| 27 | ‘ We are counting on positive developments , that things will get better and the federal government will work effectively . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Our tourist organisations are counting on big profits , ’ said Srdan Darmanovic , a member of the Montenegrin Central Committee . |
| 29 | We wo n't actually make or do anything , but it will be really neat lying in the meadows thinking about all the money we are making on off-shore tax haven related business . |
| 30 | Whenever I take hold of a woman I feel as though my feet are slithering on tufted grass and goat willow . |