Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 2 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 3 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 4 | If the stimulus conditions start with a spectrally pure red light shining on to a red area the cell will fire even though the area looks like a washed-out red to a human observer . |
| 5 | and the percentage staying on until the sixth year from 14 per cent . |
| 6 | there is some change going on in the rural economy and perhaps he does want to interpret it as er a revolution which the communists can actually get involved in so he 's writing his paper and saying look , this is happening it may not be a rel revolution , but it |
| 7 | ‘ Less aggro signing on at the Social Security . ’ |
| 8 | Because if they do n't understand that , there 's no point going on to the next stage . |
| 9 | Moreover , the proportion of the secondary-school population staying on beyond the minimum school-leaving age was steadily rising from 29.2 per cent in 1959 to 51.3 per cent in 1964 , and by 1969 it would be 61.5 per cent . |
| 10 | Karrimor had made two special rucsacs , the bike 's top tube clamping on to the reinforced cover flap so that the whole bike sat across your back . |
| 11 | The chemical ( 2,4-diamino-5- ( 3,4,5 trimethoxybenzyl ) pyrimidine ) acts as an inhibitor locking on to the active site of the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase ( DHFR ) which catalyses the reduction of dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate in microbial and eucaryotic cells ( see figure ) . |
| 12 | For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn . |
| 13 | Packets of sugar leaking crystals , biscuits , flour seeping on to the scrubbed surface , plates with the remains of a meal . |
| 14 | There was even the same poker game going on in the back room , a game I could n't get in on but which I could glimpse every time the same barmaid took refills through . |
| 15 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
| 16 | We have a joint planning officer , and we 've got quite a lot of joint erm of joint planning going on between the voluntary sector and the Health Authority and the Social Services . |
| 17 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 18 | The traditional " absent mindedness " of a professor represents a concentration on some subject removed from the daily life going on around the poor old man . |
| 19 | However , how does that come about , I mean if supposing you were a , a member of a very large group like the Catholic Church getting on to a billion people say , well you ca n't possibly identify with a billion other people you ca n't meet them in one lifetime let alone ties with them , so how does , how does narcissistic libido unify the members of vast groups like the Catholic Church ? |
| 20 | However policy-makers ' overriding concern with inflation and the calculations about likely reactions of financial markets to inflation-risking economic policies ( notably in Britain in 1976 , France in 1982 — 3 , and Australia in 1984 ) have forced advocates of state spending on to the defensive . |
| 21 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 22 | The numbers in each year are progressively multiplied by some survival ratio to forecast the number going on to the next year , with ancillary information added in as appropriate . |
| 23 | We 've actually had a recycling paper project going on over the last couple of months , which made paper out of shredded newsprint and then made Christmas cards out of them . |
| 24 | Mick Miller , Marketing Director of the Museum , said : ‘ We have been privileged to have provided facilities for this prestigious project following on from the successful completion of our own N7 . |
| 25 | In 1888 Curzon found station-building activity going on across the Trans-Caspian route . |
| 26 | Two minor ‘ quakes shook Yokohama during our conference — as if there were not enough earth-moving activity going on in the plenary sessions ! |
| 27 | ‘ You should see the party going on in the forward dome car . |
| 28 | Taipei itself looked beautiful from the high balcony on which she and Florian stood , by night a glittering bowl from which the hum and roar of its mind-numbing traffic rose to compete with the sounds of the party going on in the large room behind them . |
| 29 | He accepts then the necessity to permit the destruction of some forms of life , while at the same time holding on to a firm belief in the essential unity of all life and the principle of non-violence . |
| 30 | Huy grabbed one of the torches and brought it closer , careless of the wax dripping on to the dead skin . |