Example sentences of "is [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah here it is hang on a second while I rinse it out . |
| 2 | ‘ He is getting on a bit , he is going grey round the whiskers and has a milky white coat . |
| 3 | Pregnant replies , mystic allusions , mistaken identities , arguing his father is his mother , that sort of thing ; intimations of suicide , foregoing of exercise , loss of mirth , hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment ; invocations of camels , chameleons , capons , whales , weasels , hawks , handsaws — riddles , quibbles and evasions ; amnesia , paranoia , myopia ; day-dreaming , hallucinations ; stabbing his elders , abusing his parents , insulting his lover , and appearing hatless in public — knock-kneed , droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy , which at his age is coming on a bit strong . |
| 4 | Nothing drastic — it 's just that his studio is taking on a more Tardis-like appearance than before . |
| 5 | Slowly , but surely , the machine knitting project is taking on a life of its own . |
| 6 | A 15-YEAR campaign to have a new civic centre built in Lisburn is taking on a new urgency . |
| 7 | A CLEVELAND aid team is taking on a major project to improve the lives of children in Romania . |
| 8 | Where Newco is carrying on a trade and incurs capital expenditure after 9 March 1992 in acquiring user rights to computer software , plant and machinery , capital allowances are available for such expenditure ( see s67A Capital Allowances Act 1990 ) . |
| 9 | The argument is that if Target is acting as agent for Newco , then Newco is carrying on a trade as principal through the agency of Target . |
| 10 | This is carrying on a long tradition of Eastern Centre get-togethers for E H Os , we 've done residential courses every two years for I do n't know how many years . |
| 11 | Hoskin 's chairman , Barry Hoar , is putting on a brave face and has told shareholders that ‘ your directors view the future with confidence . ’ |
| 12 | Still in Brussels , until 23 May the Eric van de Weghe gallery , which has close ties with Sonnabend and Miller of New York and Waddington 's in London , is putting on a major retrospective devoted to the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat . |
| 13 | — BLACKHALL Royal British Legion 's 100 Club is putting on a special show on Monday May 25 , featuring comedy hypnotist Tony Sands and singer Suzanne Preston . |
| 14 | Cummins Engines , in Yarm Road , is putting on a special display of the work done at the plant which will include demonstrations of all the vehicles fitted with Cummins Engines . |
| 15 | Trimdon Village WMC is putting on a super show with no cover charge on Tuesday March 31 with top comedian Bob Ritchie and award winning duo Inseparable . |
| 16 | He says that many will be dropped — at least until the ‘ core ’ business is put on a sound footing . |
| 17 | He has an injection of concentrated Vitamin B so he can play that night 's gig at CBGB 's , but he is put on a special diet for three weeks — with strictly no drink . |
| 18 | Being a property tax — there is not now any contention between the two main parties about that — we can either tax the kind of house and say , for example , that all three-bedroom properties shall be taxed the same , in which case my hon. Friends should be aware that we would soon have tremendous anomalies as the same tax is placed on a Mayfair flat as is put on a flat in a mining village , or we can have regional banding , and then there must be boundaries between regions . |
| 19 | Breakfast is taken on a pleasant terrace , or in a large room which doubles as a comfortable lounge during the evenings . |
| 20 | Partly for this reason and partly because of the inherent complexity the partnership agreement itself will rarely include ( at any rate in its main body ) a breakdown of the chosen management structures in full detail , though where a decision is taken on a matter of principle ( eg what matters require the unanimous approval of the partners , how a senior partner should be chosen , etc ) the partnership agreement is the logical place for it to be recorded . |
| 21 | To make a speech , propose a toast , or write a manifesto is to take on a role and also to impose a role on the receivers . |
| 22 | The last thing an executive search consultant wants to do is to take on an assignment which is not achievable and which he or she can not complete . |