Example sentences of "[noun pl] going on " in BNC.
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| 31 | With activities going on every day and most evenings we hardly ever saw our two . |
| 32 | Travel to and from work may have been combined with other activities , or with a knowledge of other activities going on around them . |
| 33 | I do n't happen to think bolting is in the least bit environmentally damaging ( at least not compared with other activities going on around it ) but mechanical drills are bound to give it a bad image — the message her is ‘ bolters , do your stuff in winter or at night . ’ |
| 34 | This sometimes led to productive and satisfactory change ; but in some classrooms it resulted in confusion as procedures became separated from their underlying objectives , and as teachers strove to balance the conflicting demands of a mixture of well-tried and untried practices , of a wide variety of grouping strategies , and of many different activities going on simultaneously in their classrooms . |
| 35 | We get told that erm in the early times there was quite a bit of social activities going on , lots of clubs and things |
| 36 | There were enough activities going on around the field ; surely there was somewhere his services were needed ? |
| 37 | Mind you , it 's end of term , she 's got all the activities going on . |
| 38 | Sometimes I wish we did , but our school , in fact , is open five/six days a week and very often there are activities going on well into the evening . |
| 39 | There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely . |
| 40 | The hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) might like to remember that in the polyester yarn sector , which is not covered by the question , there are anti-dumping suits going on , so we are pursuing the cases of which we are aware . |
| 41 | But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland . |
| 42 | Then I suddenly found I had quite a lot of projects going on , working for Kenny Rogers and Jimmy Ruffin … |
| 43 | DEC apparently has a number of low-end Alpha PC projects going on : add the code name Jenson , prospectively a $5,000 box , to the $3,500 50 SPECmark Triumph we 've already heard about ( UX No 376 ) . |
| 44 | The solution , it seems , is for chief executives and senior managers to take a much stronger personal interest in the projects going on in their organisations . |
| 45 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 46 | There was nothing to keep him here that could outweigh the thought of the possible conspiracies going on behind his back back home . |
| 47 | I I was also thinking o of Veestol and and er the weapons going on and the mistakes anyway on on the developing a harrier replacement , is the R A F still interested in that as a feature a short take-off vertical take-off ? |
| 48 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |
| 49 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 50 | Most sociologists would wish to maintain that , while their social science does not meet the rigorous criteria of a natural science , in terms of the procedures used for verification of theoretical hypotheses there is some disciplined thinking and testing of ideas going on in sociology which does distinguish it from religious or mystical thinking . |
| 51 | of CCA comments , ‘ I do not think that this experiment is going to substitute and take the place of several experiments going on in the Third World . |
| 52 | Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful . |
| 53 | Then she noticed the lights going on all over the school but thought no more about it . |
| 54 | fucking lights going on and off ! |
| 55 | I particularly try and develop an atmosphere of autonomy in the subsidiary companies where they feel they are part of a team and can look across at the other companies and can see admirable things going on . |
| 56 | There are tribal things going on there that you would n't know about unless you lived there . ’ |
| 57 | He wanted more of DeFries ' time as well and the more DeFries saw things going on that he did n't like , the less time he wanted to put in to both of them . |
| 58 | You need to consider your exercise programme in the context of other things going on in your life . |
| 59 | There are other things going on in life . |
| 60 | They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby . |