Example sentences of "are [adj] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures .
2 By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee .
3 The Government are remiss to press on in the face of careful and constructive opposition , which has been voiced by experts from the county of Leicester and other parts of the country .
4 Some members of the European Community are anxious to hurry on from the ERM to Economic and Monetary Union .
5 When you are ready to go on to the next potency , the whole process is repeated with a single poppy seed granule of the desired strength .
6 Batch production can be relatively well planned and controlled , but queueing problems may arise when batches are ready to move on to the next operation .
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