Example sentences of "[be] going on [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 2 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 3 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 4 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 5 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 6 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 7 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |
| 8 | But first , work 's been going on throughout the day to clear-up the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox which was damaged at the end of the big match last night . |
| 9 | Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other . |
| 10 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 11 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 12 | Because because there 's so many there 's so many things that are going on at the moment that it it does take time . |
| 13 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 14 | You do n't know that you are inadvertently causing the work to arrive late by stressing its urgency any more than you know what thoughts and feelings are going on inside the typist . |
| 15 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 16 | What we were expecting and erm he wanted to know , to a large extent , how we felt about all the erm things that are going on in the parish . |
| 17 | Also , other issues are going on around the globe , not only tennis . ’ |
| 18 | Well those are some of the things which are going on around the showground … |
| 19 | About the papers in the portmanteau and Molly and how I 'm going on to the monastery next . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm going on to the monastery . |
| 21 | A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force . |
| 22 | He does n't know of the possibly criminal activities which may be going on under the cover of the Ingard group — and I can t at present discuss such matters with him . |
| 23 | She said although yesterday 's Drinkwise Day was a focus to promote awareness of sensible drinking levels the campaign would be going on throughout the year . |
| 24 | And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words ? |
| 25 | And that takes us to the question of what it is that might be going on behind the screen — a question which leads not only forward and to Ulysses and beyond , but backwards , into a reconsideration of Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 27 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 28 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
| 29 | In the West End there seems at the moment a tendency to rely too much on the goodwill of actors which is often accompanied by a failure to maintain a true interest in what is going on for the actor . |
| 30 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |