Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [conj] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have also been occasional errors of judgment , regretted by all but recognised to have been caused by the harsh financial climate on the one hand and the immense flood of new books demanding funds and shelving on the other . |
| 2 | If everybody does not have the moral resolve to make their views known , and their presence felt , we will be restricted to walking reservations and climbing on climbing walls . |
| 3 | An engineer may be seen as a threat to society when designing a plant which generates toxic waste , but to be protecting society if working on a flood prevention scheme . |
| 4 | But there were children with the women here and there , subdued children eating chips or drawing on pieces of paper on the floor . |
| 5 | The modern actuary is far more likely to be a well-rounded individual , meeting people and advising on vital aspects of corporate development , than buried in a statistical department . |
| 6 | There are mixed doubles all afternoon , and Scrabble and acting games and trying on trunkloads of period clothes all evening . |
| 7 | Others survive by begging , selling trinkets or scavenging on rubbish tips . |
| 8 | It is not concerned with relationships between vernacular and non-vernacular phonological patterns , but with characterizing vowels as varying on a single phonetic dimension . |
| 9 | This must affect the balance between paying cash and buying on credit , in the eyes of the customer ( who is most unlikely to know about the dealer 's commission ) . |
| 10 | The only reason I did n't get rounded up before the game and incarcerated in a Marine barracks was cos I was in a pub in the Hague downing Guinness and cheering on Ireland ( another thankless task ) . |
| 11 | Touching down on Luqa 's main runway , heading east and sitting on the port side of the aircraft , the aviation-oriented visitor to the Island is drawn to a distinctive sight within the village of Kirkop , just of the Airport 's southern perimeter road , three fins ! |
| 12 | I strip up , removing trousers and pulling on a pair of light-weight leggings , and just wade in . |
| 13 | ‘ The tabloid editors have been condemned as lacking integrity and behaving on the commission like publicans denouncing the evils of drink at a temperance rally . ’ |
| 14 | Since they will not be viewing the whole picture comprehensively , since they will perforce be selectively choosing values and acting on limited information , it is all the more important that the reasons why they have chosen a particular course of conduct should be articulated . |
| 15 | Anyone who became insolvent by keeping no books , never taking stock and going on year after year without knowing how their affairs stood , was like a child at school who found to his surprise that he had but one halfpenny left in his pocket . |
| 16 | Lorton , by contrast , was drinking lager and thriving on it . |
| 17 | It is also pointed out that the danger of " hurrying " and teaching " more " is that time for gathering information and reflecting on practice and the implicit and explicit theories that guide it can evaporate easily in the busyness of increasing demands … |
| 18 | VXM claims a CPU-intensive subroutine created using PVM and executing on a cluster of mixed network environments could be accessed by a applications running on systems running ToolTalk services . |
| 19 | The erstwhile ubiquitous road men , always in couples , bent double when you were not looking and sucking pipes and leaning on long-handled spades when you passed , were locals you knew and waved to . |
| 20 | Having survived a financial crisis in the early 1980s , thanks to support from the banks and from a staff prepared to agree to a voluntary wage freeze , the paper is now making money and putting on readers , so why has the management now decided to modernise the title ? |
| 21 | Cookie would be coining it at the greengrocer 's stall , munching fruit and putting on the courtesy act to old ladies . |
| 22 | One of two of the survivors recalled playing golf and walking on the Pentlands . |
| 23 | Such outbursts by Dr Jenkins seems to me yet another example of preaching socialism while thriving on the rewards of the capitalist system of government . |
| 24 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 25 | There is not so much advocacy to be done ; much of the work is non-litigious ( such as drafting documents and advising on title ) , and the cases that do get into court tend to turn upon technicalities of company law , taxation , property and wills , or upon questions of company finance , rather than upon controversial questions of fact . |