Example sentences of "are [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But United are hanging on to ‘ Captain Marvel ’ leaving Derby boss Arthur Cox admitting : ‘ We made an inquiry for Robson , but United turned us down flat and said he was not available . ’ |
| 2 | But the interpretation from dealers and experts is that motorists are hanging on to their ageing cars instead of buying new ones . |
| 3 | It 's true that more people are hanging on to their cars and strangel ; y not paying for their servicing . |
| 4 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 5 | They are hanging on by refusing to pay suppliers . |
| 6 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 7 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 8 | The boys of Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School — four wins in four matches — are catching on to it . |
| 9 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 10 | You do not have to be a Marxist to see that the official statistics of unemployment include only those who are signing on at Job Centres and are eligible for benefit . |
| 11 | The optimism which greeted the ‘ workforce of the future ’ may have faded , but both the union and the company are pressing on with it . |
| 12 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 13 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |
| 14 | PC Software houses are turning on to Windows more quickly than the users — there are n't many who do n't have a Windows product in their portfolios these days — and Sage has joined the band of the enlightened few who package both DOS and Windows versions together with its second foray into the GUI market — Sterling + 2 . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about dolphins , ’ said the leading lady of the entertainment show Give Us A Clue , ‘ but you just feel that they understand what you are going on about . |
| 16 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 17 | ‘ People are going on as if there is a crisis at Blackburn because we have n't won for seven weeks , but we 've only been beaten twice this season and if that 's a crisis God help us . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It depends what kind of scenarios are going on on each floor and in each room of the tower block , ’ ponders The One Who Does n't Object To Wearing ( Hopefully Fake ) Fur Coats . |
| 19 | Erm , due erm there 's also as you know , we 've , we 've had the chartered petition on the market and we are going on with that . |
| 20 | Sotheby 's told The Art Newspaper that ‘ there has been quite a large response to the Lloyd 's letter , but talks are going on with a view to possible changes in this arrangement ’ . |
| 21 | And we have not forgotten those of you who are going on to post graduate studies . |
| 22 | But we know are going on to double shift on Monday |
| 23 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 24 | Because because there 's so many there 's so many things that are going on at the moment that it it does take time . |
| 25 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 26 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 27 | the local communities have been ignored in these issues and these discussions that are going on between British Coal and the County Council . |
| 28 | You do n't know that you are inadvertently causing the work to arrive late by stressing its urgency any more than you know what thoughts and feelings are going on inside the typist . |
| 29 | THE lights are going on in Bucharest . |
| 30 | Mr Kinnock 's voice was choked with emotion as , refusing to concede defeat , he said : ‘ Even now as the recounts are going on in a very large number of seats the results of this election is not decided . ’ |