Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] on [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Sunday the world-wide Fun for Nature 's Walk for the Rain Forest is taking place , and that there are three hundred walks going on throughout the country , four of them are in Oxfordshire , and Sue May is , is concentrating on the walks at Burford Wildlife Park and also the one at Banbury . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Their evolution is governed by the nuclear reactions going on inside the star and making it shine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There were enough activities going on around the field ; surely there was somewhere his services were needed ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | THE creation of a spot market for industrial gas to help cope with the volumes coming on to the market as a result of the reduction in the British Gas business has been raised by the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 8 | Gut analysis did not suggest , either , that the trout changed diet after the flood depleted the aquatic invertebrates , to consume more terrestrial flies dropping on to the river 's surface . |
| 9 | How could I be , there ai n't no fertility cords holding on to the fanny . |
| 10 | There were all sorts of things going on with the WTA board , and I took a leadership position there . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There were all sorts of busy monkish things going on in the courtyard of the monastery of Saint Sacco Benedetto . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had known she was old but she had been so full of vitality , and interested in all the things going on in the world , that her death was a shock . |
| 15 | ‘ It is a particular shame for Neil because there were far worse things going on in the game but some people only want to see the dark side of him . |
| 16 | This is very much in demand , with so many credit card thefts going on at the moment . " |
| 17 | I am as aware as anyone of the changes going on in the world . |
| 18 | There would be a dramatic increase in the volume of good quality country houses coming on to the market in May , June and July , predicted Mr Andrew Hay of Knight Frank and Rutley . |
| 19 | Victoria was standing at the top of the stairs hanging on to the banister . |
| 20 | So that the pageant should not be seen by any outsider and news spread of where the Miracle-Worker had gone to earth , they rolled the various carts into two barns facing on to the street . |
| 21 | Originally , the kitchen was dark and narrow , but the architect who helped with the structural changes suggested that if the living room and the kitchen swapped places they could have a large kitchen with French windows opening on to the garden . |
| 22 | Main picture : French windows opening on to the garden let plenty of light in to the kitchen — where practicality has n't been sacrificed for style |
| 23 | Since there were 15 strategies , there were 15 x 15 , or 225 separate games going on in the computer . |
| 24 | Details of activities and entertainments going on in the town can be obtained from the entertainments page in the local press . |
| 25 | It 's a good sport for women to play in and there 's lots of developments going on in the sport and we would like to go into the under sixteens and the under twelves . |
| 26 | I have no quarrel with Searle 's claim that ‘ mental phenomena are caused by processes going on in the brain ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Also I ca n't see cafes catching on in the North , we have n't got the weather to sit outside . ’ |
| 29 | At Tayga ( III ) — the junction for Tomsk — Ob , Achinsk , and Olginskaya ( III ) there were long , low , wooden stations with twin gables fronting on to the platform . |
| 30 | There are one or two magnificent examples coming on to the market . |