Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] going [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know much about art before but there was an exhibition of my Old Masters going on at the Royal Academy and she saw that , and was very enthusiastic about it , especially the Holbein portrait of Henry VIII . |
| 2 | My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s . |
| 3 | Even Nutty could see what an apathetic beast he was , and her heart contracted suddenly at the thought of their four stupid old horses going back to the knacker 's . |
| 4 | Simon Cope of London-based commercial agent Gerald Eve , which is marketing the scheme jointly with Sanderson Townend & Gilbert , said : ‘ There has been as reasonable amount of interest in the past , and marketing has occasionally been stopped while discussions have taken place , but there are serious discussions going on at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | Since there were 15 strategies , there were 15 x 15 , or 225 separate games going on in the computer . |
| 6 | That is to be increased and perhaps there should be an increase in the sentence for hardened criminals going out with a criminal purpose and carrying a knife . |
| 7 | and they found a lot of , you know , serious crimes going on in the Party and stuff |
| 8 | But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland . |
| 9 | There were all sorts of busy monkish things going on in the courtyard of the monastery of Saint Sacco Benedetto . |
| 10 | It was a large wooden building , with no ceiling but cool crisscrossed rafters going up into the roof of wood and thatch . |
| 11 | Traffic still very busy on all major routes going out of the city , it 's not as bad now , though as it was there the last time I spoke to you , but still , very very busy this evening . |
| 12 | On the other hand , every teacher has a professional obligation to understand the key conversations going on in the research community . |
| 13 | Their evolution is governed by the nuclear reactions going on inside the star and making it shine . |
| 14 | But it did n't necessarily follow that the sort of training beloved of the psychologists — say shaping a rat to press a lever for food in a skinner box — was best suited to the study of the cellular and biochemical processes going on within the organism . |
| 15 | There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely . |
| 16 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 17 | It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket . |
| 18 | As the first group of pulses were directed to the satellite high above the Indian Ocean , mixed up with all the other transmissions going out to the Far East , they were snatched out of the ether by the NSA 's giant aerials at Morwenstow 60 miles up the coast to the east of Goonhilly , and compared with the watch lists of ‘ interesting ’ numbers on their computer memories . |
| 19 | Very occasionally his path crossed that of a couple walking home or a group of a young friends going up to the centre , and then the brief appraising glances they gave him left Zen feeling obscurely ill at ease , underlining as they did his lack of purpose or direction . |
| 20 | Few of us were aware of the feverish political and diplomatic manoeuvres going on behind the scenes in Britain and Australia . |
| 21 | These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care . |
| 22 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 23 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |