Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 2 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 3 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 4 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 5 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 6 | Sotheby 's told The Art Newspaper that ‘ there has been quite a large response to the Lloyd 's letter , but talks are going on with a view to possible changes in this arrangement ’ . |
| 7 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
| 8 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |
| 9 | getting fed up Okay just to finish up now , because we 're gon na be moving on in a minute . |
| 10 | As the search for a suitable guitarist proved fruitless , it appeared that The Smiths would not be carrying on as a unit . |
| 11 | Sensationally , The Smiths would not be carrying on as a band at all . |
| 12 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 13 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 14 | Ministers are a bunch of desperadoes , and they are carrying on like a bunch of stoneheads . |
| 15 | In homes across the States millions of Americans were switching on for an evening 's viewing . |
| 16 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |
| 17 | The family were following on in a state of high Latin hysteria . |
| 18 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 19 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 20 | The computer turns its interpretation of what is going on into a television picture — healthy tissue is coloured green , tumours show up red . |
| 21 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 22 | So sorting out what is going on in an ERP is like untangling a complex bundle of many different strands of similar wool with one hand tied behind the back . |
| 23 | Generally what is needed is far greater signalling of what is going on in an essay , and more explicit management of the material presented . |
| 24 | It 's a shame it 's going on under a microscope , spotlight or whatever but erm . |
| 25 | You 've got an S O four with two bonds on it and it 's holding on to a hydrogen |
| 26 | ‘ It 's getting on for an hour since we left Cartier . ’ |
| 27 | Let mummy just watch the news then I think Playbus is coming on in a moment . |
| 28 | PEOPLE 'S champion Gwen Lamb is battling on after a setback in her efforts to recoup £30,000 she lost in a bank crash . |
| 29 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 30 | At bottom then there was some democratic basis for the Unionist case , for the government was pressing on with a reform that they knew was not backed by the electorate . |