Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] on in the " in BNC.
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1 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
2 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
3 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
4 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
5 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
6 | The relationship between body posture and suppressed past trauma or emotions was touched on in the section dealing with cervical reintegration . |
7 | The grey trousers were put on in the month of March last and the white waistcoats in May . ’ |
8 | Owen asked how John Postlethwaite was getting on in the ministry . |
9 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
10 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
11 | But then , as night fell and the lights were switched on in the carriage , illuminating the sepia photographs of Morecambe Bay at dawn and donkeys trotting Blackpool sands , he felt his privacy was being invaded and had stopped making those conciliatory gestures . |
12 | The problem of social role One particular difficulty which is liable to beset participant observation studies was touched on in the previous paragraph ; it concerns the social role allocated to the fieldworker as a consequence of his or her age , sex , ethnicity or other socially significant attributes . |
13 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
14 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
15 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
16 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
17 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
18 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
19 | Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child . |
20 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |