Example sentences of "[v-ing] on an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after appearing on an independent television programme to discuss his views ( no BBC programme invited him on ) , Altrincham was hit in the face by a furious official of the League of Empire Loyalists . |
| 2 | This is more easily done when landing in an unfamiliar place , particularly if it is in a hilly area and means landing on an uphill slope . |
| 3 | STRANGE things were happening on an Ulster hillside last week . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , ‘ those areas where pressure to build is greatest are precisely those where pressure not to build is also greatest ’ ; but , ending on an optimistic note . |
| 5 | The cottar , subsisting on an inadequate holding , had a greater need for cash earnings and more time to spare , but because he accepted the hierarchical consumption ethic of the village community his aspirations were lower , so that , although working longer , he did so at a lower intensity . |
| 6 | Studies at King 's College School of Medicine show that even a short period of hard pedalling on an exercise bike diverts blood flow from the uterus to the legs , ‘ stealing ’ oxygen from the foetus . |
| 7 | The physical sessions included warming-up , periods pedalling on an exercise cycle , free-standing exercises , stretching and relaxation . |
| 8 | Kenya , one of its main strongholds , could still boast of a 20,000 strong population at the end of the 1960s , but over the next decade , poaching on an unprecedented scale — mainly by Somali bandits armed with AK 47s — had reduced their numbers to a few hundred . |
| 9 | More important is the ability of companies to increase earnings per share by enough to push share prices any higher at a time when they are already trading on an average 18 times earnings . |
| 10 | However , the second element must always be present : typically there are at least short-run gains from reneging on an agreement and so tacit collusion requires the perception that to do so would in the end turn out to be unprofitable because of punitive reactions by the other firms . |
| 11 | The dispute became more intense in early July after Prince Sihanouk announced his approval of a Khmer Rouge plan for equal quadripartite power-sharing on the SNC , thereby effectively reneging on an agreement signed with the SOC Premier Hun Sen in Tokyo in early June [ see pp. 37532-33 ] . |
| 12 | The UDF had proposed including the diplomatic service within the bill 's purview , and claimed that the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) was reneging on an earlier promise by voting en bloc against this proposal . |
| 13 | The COB accused Paz Zamora of giving in to United States pressure and reneging on an election promise that crop substitution measures would remain the central strategy to eradicate the growing of coca crops by 60,000 peasant farmers , many of whom were former tin miners made redundant as a result of the collapse of the international price of tin . |
| 14 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 15 | In general , the more heavily firms discount the future ( i.e. the higher their cost of capital ) the smaller will be the present value of future losses of profit caused by punishment , relative to the immediate gains from cheating on an agreement . |
| 16 | A hint of hatching on an early map , and the mysterious name of ‘ Brownie 's Chair ’ were enough to suggest possibilities . |
| 17 | As I indicated in chapter 1 , whilst the system of primogeniture had been used traditionally by the aristocracy as a way of passing on an estate intact , the expanding entrepreneurial business class of the early industrial period tended to favour partible inheritance . |
| 18 | The crowded conditions they lived in were ideal for passing on an infectious agent . |
| 19 | This is where a group of neighbours , living on an estate in Guildford , Surrey , come in . |
| 20 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
| 21 | The report noted that the industrialized countries could improve the lot of 1,100 million people living on an average per capita income equivalent to less than US$370 a year by increasing and targeting aid to countries committed to reducing poverty . |
| 22 | And that at least is true , he thought , because if I were a crippled old man living on an early pension filtered through the Secret Vote — and thus controllable — I would n't want any whisper of indiscretion getting back to the Service . |
| 23 | Christmas in an hotel room is n't everyone 's idea of bliss , but Kenneth 's presence makes it home , and we spend the morning sitting in bed listening to a carol service on the radio , watching Walt Disney and nibbling on an assortment of Marks and Spencer goodies before the heat of the room rendered them inedible . |
| 24 | It comes equipped with two solid brass roses , the extra , smaller one fitting on an extension spout for the gentlest watering of tender seedlings . |
| 25 | Recurrent bursts of petitioning on an ever larger scale played a central part in developing and maintaining the dynamic of anti-slave trade agitation up to 1792 and of the emancipation campaign from 1823 . |
| 26 | CONVENTIONAL TV works with two deflectors at right angles acting on an electron beam to give a two-dimensional , scanned image . |
| 27 | Now , new evidence from Robert T Bush , a professor at California State University acting on an idea from Randell L Mills , President of HydroCatalysis Power Corporation , vindicates the original findings of Professors Fleischmann and Ponns . |
| 28 | This experience , common to many pilots is known as " The Leans " ! b ) This can occur because the resultant forces acting on an aircraft , to which the body balance mechanism responds , does not coincide with the true gravity vertical . |
| 29 | Then , acting on an impulse , he drove his hip viciously into the side of the old woman , and taking advantage of the space momentarily gained by this manoeuvre , ducked under the rail , and crossed the road . |
| 30 | When acting on an acquisition , MAS may be asked by the prospective vendors to sign a confidentiality agreement . |