Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] on in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 2 | Work is going on in the Beaufort Sea on the West Coast and also off the East Coast where a significant discovery — Hibernia — has led to disagreement and a legal dispute between the federal government and the province of Newfoundland concerning sovereignty over offshore fuels . |
| 3 | Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc . |
| 4 | Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends . |
| 5 | Owen asked how John Postlethwaite was getting on in the ministry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The move by Precision to break out of the workstation market into the higher echelons of data analysis is , the company says , the first in a series of developments the firm is working on in the supercomputing arena . |
| 8 | Well now , do they run a show and that racket 's going on in the entertainment club at the same time ? |
| 9 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
| 10 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 11 | It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector . |
| 12 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child . |