Example sentences of "[noun sg] going on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In 1888 Curzon found station-building activity going on across the Trans-Caspian route . |
| 7 | Two minor ‘ quakes shook Yokohama during our conference — as if there were not enough earth-moving activity going on in the plenary sessions ! |
| 8 | ‘ You should see the party going on in the forward dome car . |
| 9 | 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 . |