Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professions have lost many of their better men ; many of those who remain are concentrating on maximising profits and fees to feather nests in the US , Canada or Australia . |
| 2 | She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember . |
| 3 | Well , that 's all very well but there is one other I would like to add to the list and put it near the top — Downpatrick , who have been battling on their own for years , and who still manage to attract huge crowds as they showed last Monday . |
| 4 | Lord Lawson lines up alongside other members of the old guard such as Lord Howe , the late Lord Ridley and Lady Thatcher herself , who have been banging on the monetarist drum with the message that the deficit is one of the keys to the economy . |
| 5 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 6 | And Dave Fowler , mechanical supervisor ; Billy Bunn , office manager ; John Flint , electrical supervisor and Hugh Chisholm , piping supervisor who have been working on the ENRON power station contract in Teesside . |