Example sentences of "[is] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has always produced the goods when he s come on . |
| 2 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 3 | It is a fact that Windows is catching on , probably because a graphical environment , although slower , at the moment , than a DOS character based environment , can be a very comfortable way to work , intuitive even . |
| 4 | In the experience of the author , the idea of the scheme is catching on very widely , and the theories running through it are rubbing off on traditional conveyancing practice in the commercial area . |
| 5 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 6 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 7 | Orrell 's basic requirement is to go on winning for three more games because if they do not , either Northampton or Bath , each with a match to play after today , will nip in for the prize , just as Wasps did on the final day of the 1990 league season . |
| 8 | It concerns me , in fact I was , I 've had a theory for a couple of years now , that what the Tories wish us all to do is to go on to the American system of medical insurance . |
| 9 | What is the use of continuing our race if it is to go on in darkness ? ’ |
| 10 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |
| 11 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 12 | What I was going to do is to go on and talk about , bring out electricity again as something which crops up . |
| 13 | In all the tanks where my fish are housed a small terracotta saucer is placed on to the bottom where the food is placed , this does help when it comes to cleaning the uneaten food off the aquarium bottom . |
| 14 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 15 | The day is drawing on and this apothecary 's shop is the very gateway to Hell . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's hanging on my bike in the yard , inside a roll of lino . ’ |
| 17 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 18 | Beside her , Carol 's hanging on . |
| 19 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 20 | A statement in its memorandum of association that the company 's object shall be to carry on business as a general commercial company shall mean that its object is to carry on any trade or business whatsoever , and in such a case the company has power to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the carrying on of any trade or business by it . |
| 21 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 22 | But if we convert our traders into stock-jobbers , who is to carry on the commerce of the kingdom ? |
| 23 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 24 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 25 | International : Cotton republic is hanging on by slim thread |
| 26 | Sometimes the ferret is even in the process of killing the rabbit , is hanging on by its teeth and is dragged out with the rabbit . |
| 27 | Everyone who is ahead of me is hanging on like crazy to their rung of the ladder . |
| 28 | The film tantalises us — and Evelyn , who is hanging on to Ninny 's every word — right to the end . |
| 29 | What 's the point when a minor throng , just far enough outside London to be irritating , is hanging on his every word ? |
| 30 | NCR Corp has finally abandoned the traditional mainframe business , driven out of it by another company that is hanging on in there by its fingernails . |