Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it does not extend to the Regimental Headquarters , where the Adjutant appears to be becoming somewhat heated on the telephone as a local unit announce that a helicopter will be arriving at 1130 hours to collect maps from the adjoining map depot . |
| 2 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 3 | Perhaps , though , Wilson was merely distracted by the fact that , during his first appearance , he briefly disappeared before returning partially superimposed on a map . |
| 4 | In private it would seem that he was becoming increasingly fixated on the idea of a Third World War . |
| 5 | Marketing dogma of old had it that car buyers do n't want to hear about car safety , preferring not to dwell on the possibility of being killed or injured on the road . |
| 6 | A sprung-edge base has springs right up to the edges , giving greater comfort and causing less wear on the mattress |
| 7 | Pausing only to pull on the lightweight wrap that lay across the foot of the bunk , she grasped the torch more firmly and peered cautiously around the curtain . |
| 8 | Given that these defendants are unlikely to know the names of solicitors the responsibility for acting quickly settles on the duty solicitor . |
| 9 | The UK is , however , looking increasingly isolated on the issue , given recent US moves to introduce energy taxes [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 10 | The Hartlepool Mail told of one emergency board meeting hastily convened on a Skipton pavement . |
| 11 | The sharp end of routine policing always falls on the economically marginal , those who live out their lives in public places which routine police patrols regulate , and those who are not integrated into the mainstream institutions of economic and political life . |
| 12 | Physicians should be aware that the diagnosis of CO poisoning still depends on a high degree of clinical suspicion and direct measurement of CO . |
| 13 | Unless she 's been fiddling the books — and my accountant does n't think so — the profits your Miss Philimore has been turning in seem on the low side for a site like that . |
| 14 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 15 | Charlie 's going out to check on the territory and strike up a deal . |
| 16 | In trying to unbend curvy lines , there is another way of deciding how to proceed on the ladder of powers . |
| 17 | But there was an element of luck in yesterday 's performances because the British crews decided to defy political reality by going hard left on the first beat and were pleasantly rewarded by a massive windshift in their favour . |
| 18 | Sometimes , during the ritual prayer , now he had got over the early stages of wondering when to get on the floor , when to rise , and exactly how to get the fingers up to the earlobes , he found himself begging to be excused any significance in his actions . |
| 19 | And William standing in the middle of the kitchen looking pained and vaguely apologetic , and a reference book on Deaths among Rural Clergy during the Black Death lying recently discarded on an armchair . |
| 20 | To remove financial roadblocks and ensure US programme members ' financial success , the company is offering 52% discounts on appropriate equipment purchases and hardware- and software-maintenance support contracts ; options for equipment leasing and financing also based on the 52% discount ; access to the company 's East Coast and West Coast qualification centres , where access to a network of HP 9000 products and technical assistance is provided free of charge ; workday telephone access to technical conversion specialists ; and 24-hour electronic bulletin access to engineering notes and product details . |
| 21 | Such a dictionary is unlikely to appeal to a member of the general public wishing only to check on a word when solving a crossword or playing Scrabble . |
| 22 | It could also have a bearing on its unusual style — no verbal testimonies from friends and colleagues , no old archive footage , just Van getting royally stoned on the music with some mates . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the poor actors who are facing long stints on the Costa Eldorado have been told by the BBC that if they want to come home on breaks or holidays , they will have to pay their own fare . |
| 24 | They were now nearer to 550 miles from Malta than the 450 intended , and the Fulmar crew announced over the radio that they could not make it , breaking away to land on the carrier again . |
| 25 | High on Victoria Peak , it overlooked the city through a faint mist , the sun breaking through to gleam on the skyscrapers and the bay below . |
| 26 | Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools . |
| 27 | You have n't really got the answer at all you 've just written it differently and that 's all it means whatever you 're sharing out goes on the top what ever number of people of people it 's being shared out between go underneath . |
| 28 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 29 | It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth . |
| 30 | Having twice refused on the grounds that he had first to win Tangier and Ceuta ( which he accomplished in 1084 ) , Yusuf finally turned his attention to Spain at Motamid 's third desperate request . |