Example sentences of "[was/were] going on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 2 | I was able to meet some of the leading Indian academic figures in English and Linguistics , and at the same time to find out what was going on at the lower levels of teaching in Universities and affiliated Colleges . |
| 3 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 4 | We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together . |
| 5 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 6 | I mean when he er you know when that thing was going on about the old ? |
| 7 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 8 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 9 | The global data structure , the Chart , would provide an easily accessible record of what exactly was going on between the different components . |
| 10 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 11 | She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal . |
| 12 | The real tussle was going on within the fourth dimension itself — the dimension of time — between ITN and BBC . |
| 13 | Had she sensed that anything was going on beneath the conventional exchange ? |
| 14 | I just stood and stared for a few moments amid all the activity that was going on around the wounded Lovat . |