Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We know there are individual trusts with smaller turnovers than ours and mergers with acute services are going on elsewhere in the country , ’ he said . |
| 2 | If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system . |
| 3 | We train the staff to know how to do their job , and we tell them what is going on elsewhere in the Hotel . |
| 4 | The Berg , with all its elusive nuances and its stormy outbursts ( in the orchestra as well as in the solo part ) , is graphically outlined here , with the weight and support of palpable involvement in what is going on emotionally in the music 's undercurrents . |
| 5 | But most of the work is going on actually in the auditorium where they 're stripping out all the wood er and putting in great big holes where they can put the fire exits in . |
| 6 | The drama might be unfocused , but we can now ask each group to look at the others ' work as examples of what 's going on elsewhere in the street . |
| 7 | I think that 's a a lamentable state of affairs , and their children , and their children 's children are going to have to pay the price for the short-sightedness that 's going on now in the ivory towers of the of the city , the the banking institutions and the financial institutions of the country . |