Example sentences of "is [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What is the use of continuing our race if it is to go on in darkness ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What I was going to do is to go on and talk about , bring out electricity again as something which crops up . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The day is drawing on and this apothecary 's shop is the very gateway to Hell . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 17 | But if we convert our traders into stock-jobbers , who is to carry on the commerce of the kingdom ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | International : Cotton republic is hanging on by slim thread |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Everyone who is ahead of me is hanging on like crazy to their rung of the ladder . |
| 23 | The film tantalises us — and Evelyn , who is hanging on to Ninny 's every word — right to the end . |
| 24 | What 's the point when a minor throng , just far enough outside London to be irritating , is hanging on his every word ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She needs to be held , but that seems dangerous , everybody is hanging on to themselves . |
| 27 | When I 've gone to crown court I am still petrified , that is really , really scary cos everyone in the room is hanging on your every word and if you make a mistake you start to sweat , your hands go clammy not very nice . |
| 28 | The appearance of scientific objectivity is painted on afterwards . |
| 29 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 30 | Take great care not to apply too much adhesive as it will show through or seep out once the glass is pressed on to the picture . |