Example sentences of "[noun] is [v-ing] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of thinking is leading on from the question of analysis to that of evaluation . |
| 2 | It is time to go downstairs , to see how Deirdre is getting on in the kitchen , to make sure the butlers are not drinking too much . |
| 3 | Work is going on in the Beaufort Sea on the West Coast and also off the East Coast where a significant discovery — Hibernia — has led to disagreement and a legal dispute between the federal government and the province of Newfoundland concerning sovereignty over offshore fuels . |
| 4 | Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc . |
| 5 | Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends . |
| 6 | Footpaths have been widened in Bondgate and similar work is going on near the Northgate , Tubwell Row and Priestgate entrances to the Cornmill shopping centre . |
| 7 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 8 | But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past . |
| 9 | So John Broome is switching on to the green , green grass of home . |
| 10 | The unions are presently consulting the membership as to how we should respond to this and that process is going on at the moment inside G M B the difficulty of course being the low level of organization . |
| 11 | The group is pressing on with the expansion and development of NET but really needs the embryonic United States economic recovery to develop swiftly if short term returns are to improve . |
| 12 | Mr Sugar is ploughing on with the rationalisation announced last year . |
| 13 | The move by Precision to break out of the workstation market into the higher echelons of data analysis is , the company says , the first in a series of developments the firm is working on in the supercomputing arena . |
| 14 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 15 | It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector . |
| 16 | Like MS-DOS 7 , its version will have a graphical interface , similar to OS/2 's Program Manager.But unlike MS-DOS 7 , it will be tailored towards portable computing — especially the pen systems the company is working on at the moment . |