Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In almost all cases this venom is used as a means of defence , and most people are stung after handling or stepping on a fish . |
| 2 | — When going for country walks , one often comes across a railway line , and it is tempting to walk along either beside the rails or stepping on the sleepers between the rails . |
| 3 | Marooned in that room or dawdling on the shore . |
| 4 | The term ‘ premises ’ as defined in Article 2(2) ‘ includes any place and , in particular , includes any vehicle , vessel , aircraft or hovercraft , any installation on land ( including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water ) , any offshore installation , and any other installation ( whether floating , or resting on the seabed or the subsoil thereof , or resting on other land covered with water or the subsoil thereof ) , and any tent or movable structure . ’ |
| 5 | It was an appointment , as William Adam pointed out , which ‘ often follows at a great distance of time after the application & entring on the list ’ . |
| 6 | Oddly for years , it remained permissible to use an iron or steel stemmer providing it was not upon the " … wadding or the first part of the tamping or stemming on the powder … |
| 7 | Each are accounted for in the same way : budgeted expenditure is compared with actual spending , budgeted income with actual income , and any net under- or over-spending on the vote as a whole is paid over to , or collected from , the Consolidated Fund . |
| 8 | From swimming in one of many pools or boating on the lakes , to riding , tennis , hiking or just soaking up a mountain dark tan . |
| 9 | Yolland thought that the only action needed was to cut down some of the trees in a young plantation in order to give people riding or driving on the turnpike a good view of an advancing train in the cutting . |
| 10 | Display panels at the stone-walled redoubt below Durlston Castle give drawings of the many seabirds likely to be seen wheeling or nesting on the cliff including kittiwakes , fulmars and guillemots . |
| 11 | Everything becomes so much easier and some people have an experience akin to walking on air or walking on the moon . |
| 12 | This is true whether you are in a desert or a forest or swimming on a coral reef . |
| 13 | Kittiwakes and guillemots are the most numerous , nesting on precarious ledges , swirling in the air near the cliffs or swimming on the sea just offshore . |
| 14 | On the other hand , policymaking is relatively less complex at the local level , and in many authorities a committee chairman may have acquired considerable specialist knowledge by holding the chairmanship — or serving on the committee concerned-for many years . |
| 15 | The second section of the Bill enacted other parts of the Wolfenden proposals by increasing the penalties liable for offences under the new law , such as loitering , soliciting , keeping or managing a brothel , or living on the earnings of prostitution , etc . |
| 16 | This should be sufficient to protect the teacher preparing or passing on the records in any reasonable circumstances where what is written has a valid purpose . |
| 17 | As Goshiki are grouped in the catch-all Kawarimono class at shows , the Koi buyer with limited funds has a good chance or rearing on a future champion , providing the fish has that certain something . |
| 18 | Now , the next gig was weeks ahead at Earls Court in London and there was a choice of sailing round the Cape of Good Hope , going over the Khyber Pass or going on the Trans-Siberian Express . |
| 19 | The first concerns behaviours which are followed by the termination or cessation of unpleasant environmental events — for example , when shutting a window reduces the volume of traffic noise or turning on the heating reduces the discomfort from cold . |
| 20 | Very broadly stated , it is a duty to treat the trespasser with ordinary humanity … the occupier is not at fault if he has done as much as is required of him , if he has taken reasonable steps to deter the trespasser from entering or remaining on the premises , or part of the premises , in which he will encounter a dangerous situation . |
| 21 | Physical power is absent from most organisations ( except the prison service and the armed forces ) , but it is often evident as an undercurrent in industrial relations ( eg violence on the picket line or bullying on the shop floor ) . |
| 22 | All down the corridor people were propping themselves up against the walls , or lying on the floor singly or in couples . |
| 23 | My White Fantail spends most of its time either floating at the surface , or lying on the bottom . |
| 24 | Given the option , would you prefer to spend 80 minutes hard labour twice a week at placed like Lancaster Park , Christchurch or lying on the beach at Famagusta ? |
| 25 | An advanced student should be agile enough to be able to manoeuvre himself into any position he deems necessary , whether standing or lying on the floor . |
| 26 | ‘ Or lying on the couch . ’ |
| 27 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | Turning away to avoid eye contact , not talking or commenting on the behaviour , and not touching or allowing the child to climb on to their lap are essential characteristics . |
| 29 | He resented the automatic assumption that he would look after Elaine , even though he had to admit that he was so tired and amazed that even scribbling in a notebook or commenting on the decoration were beyond his capabilities . |
| 30 | I could tell what people were going to do or say — trivial things like lighting a cigarette or commenting on the rain , important things like committing murder or founding a dynasty — and it disturbed me . |