Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 2 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn 's books , for example , are selling well on the street stalls ; so are the works of Mikhail Bulgakov and the poet Osip Mandelstam . |
| 3 | Slime algae should be removed as it may actually grow over the encrusting species which , of course , are growing directly on the substrate , to their obvious detriment . |
| 4 | My preference when fish are feeding hard on the bottom is for the fixed paternoster which , due to the lead being at the extreme end of the line , casts further and more accurately than any other set-up . |
| 5 | Yes just before we leave however the question of what occur in my mind how you 're going to get from the present position in what appears to be a cost plus basis as we go along to a fixed cost basis and presumably the programme and I in in , are running as it were , are running effectively on the cost plus basis |
| 6 | Team manager of Kazakstan says the weather is hot , but his riders are doing well on the climbs . |
| 7 | Does not it also prove , as my hon. Friend the Member for Davyhulme ( Mr. Churchill ) said , that the Conservative Government are spending more on the health service and does not it nail the falsehoods repeatedly advanced by the Opposition ? |
| 8 | Is the not Secretary of State continuously presenting a distorted view when he tries to convince the House that the Government are spending more on the national health service ? |
| 9 | These organisations must now demonstrate that the goodwill and voluntary co-operation of the farming and landowning community will be effective in protecting the countryside and , along with the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , they are focusing particularly on the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group , which they helped to establish , as a major vehicle for promoting the Act . |
| 10 | However , for practical reasons , most are concentrating only on the borders to their own territories , and for cultural reasons ( say their customers ) some are still not serious about competing at all , and retain the old , nationalised take-it-or-leave-itism . |
| 11 | ‘ We are working hard on the process to make these economically , and have two pilot plants on Merseyside . |