Example sentences of "[noun sg] be go [adv prt] [coord] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels .
2 The sun was going down and the sky had declined into green-gold before the bird was tolerably roasted .
3 When I get there — the whole place is going up and the farmer 's in his pyjamas trying to save the rick .
4 A considerable learning process is going on and the outcome — democracy , authoritarianism or prolonged instability — is uncertain ( Sakwa , 1990 , pp. 159–69 ; Smith , 1992 , pp. 129–45 ) .
5 The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down .
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