Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on in a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | getting fed up Okay just to finish up now , because we 're gon na be moving on in a minute . |
2 | The family were following on in a state of high Latin hysteria . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Generally what is needed is far greater signalling of what is going on in an essay , and more explicit management of the material presented . |
6 | Let mummy just watch the news then I think Playbus is coming on in a moment . |
7 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
8 | Anyone who imagines that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer could , wholly independently , determine interest rates here without considering what was going on in a Europe with a single currency , with all the other member countries belonging to it , is totally wrong . |
9 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |