Example sentences of "be [verb] on at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen . |
| 2 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 3 | ‘ In fact , we 're staying on at the end of this trip to do the world cruise . ’ |
| 4 | Then then there 's er what 's the name what 's the woman they 're working on at the minute this lot the |
| 5 | It 's just something which is so big , that for the problem we 're working on at the moment , you 'd be there forever , or you 'd be there from here to the moon or something . |
| 6 | Pack some clothes , and whatever you need to finish the illustrations you 're working on at the moment , then we 'll leave . ’ |
| 7 | Right , erh what I 'd like to do then is er I say could you just introduce yourself or what you 're working on at the moment where you work and then the sort of presentations that you make er and then give us one of your objectives so that by the time we 've got right round the room we 'll er hopefully have everybody . |
| 8 | Still , I suppose you would have to develop a certain detachment , otherwise you 'd never be able to carry on with what you 're working on at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 10 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 11 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 12 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 13 | Because because there 's so many there 's so many things that are going on at the moment that it it does take time . |
| 14 | It does n't have to be slid on at the end of the needlebed . |
| 15 | ‘ Next year 's Eurovision could be put on at the King 's Hall . |
| 16 | Only 125 staff will be kept on at the Junction making washing machines . |
| 17 | The Government treat Scotland as an afterthought and something to be tacked on at the end when the serious business has already been dealt with . |
| 18 | James 's problems were increased by a break in filming between the bulk of his scenes and a few that had to be tacked on at the end of the shoot . |
| 19 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
| 20 | Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 21 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 22 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 23 | They are woven from rather coarse flexible tubing , and are driven from a compressed-air supply that is strapped on at the waist . |
| 24 | Similar voltage waveforms apply to windings B and C with an appropriate phase displacement , so that winding C , for example , is turned on at the mid-point of the winding freewheeling interval . |
| 25 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |
| 26 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 27 | 1 What is going on at the beginning of the poem ? 2 What do you think has happened before the poem begins ? 3 Do you think the boys are afraid ? |
| 28 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So what is going on at the moment that is affecting the management and organisation of our electronic records in local government ? |