Example sentences of "[noun sg] be going [adv prt] [prep] 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 | Footpaths have been widened in Bondgate and similar work is going on near the Northgate , Tubwell Row and Priestgate entrances to the Cornmill shopping centre . |
| 6 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 7 | But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past . |
| 8 | The unions are presently consulting the membership as to how we should respond to this and that process is going on at the moment inside G M B the difficulty of course being the low level of organization . |
| 9 | So all the technical stuff 's going on inside the machine , and the user is spared the problems of knowing how to work it . |
| 10 | The paper is going up to the Library Advisory Committee with a request for suggestions for cuts , and I enclose a copy of the last page with its summary for your information . |
| 11 | Old Coffin is going back to the sherry table . |
| 12 | A spirited argument was going on around the sweetheart plant when Rain got back from Hatherley . |
| 13 | Or , for instance , the floating roadway where traffic was going down on the barges to go across the river , it would be well worth any particular company to have a word with the officer on the floating roadway to let their vehicles through first . |
| 14 | A debate was going on within the library profession on the whole question of dispersals and conservation which culminated in a symposium at Loughborough in 1987 chaired by Lord Quinton , Chairman of the British Library Board , and a report by the British Library itself , Selection for Survival : A Review of Acquisition and Retention Policies ( 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Well now , do they run a show and that racket 's going on in the entertainment club at the same time ? |
| 16 | ‘ Only this jumpsuit 's going through at the arse and the bellbottoms are getting well chewed up on the pedals . ’ |
| 17 | And thought : and Floy is going off into the midst of all these and it is perfectly possible that I shall never see him again . |
| 18 | What the hell 's going on at the the |
| 19 | This box is going back into the cupboard with the things that you want to keep . |
| 20 | Sometimes the names of the authors of the report appear on the title page but , if the report is going out in the name of an organisation , it may be kept impersonal except for the signatures at the end . |
| 21 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
| 22 | I mean when he er you know when that thing was going on about the old ? |
| 23 | Automatically it 's staying , hopefully , if your salary 's going up by the rate of inflation , this will then be matching your salary , year in , year out . |
| 24 | It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector . |
| 25 | While the Prince of Banality is going down as the embodiment of Eighties vulgarity and hype , the museum world and the academy are singing his praises . |
| 26 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 27 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |
| 28 | The real tussle was going on within the fourth dimension itself — the dimension of time — between ITN and BBC . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We sent reporter Patsi Mackenzie to find out how the Gaelic 's going down in the heart of Lanarkshire . |