Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 2 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 3 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 4 | What we were expecting and erm he wanted to know , to a large extent , how we felt about all the erm things that are going on in the parish . |
| 5 | What makes sense therefore , is to put the work organiser at either end of the binder , to build those up , so that pages where you really will be writing on in the binder , which are the diary pages will become elevated towards the middle of the rings , and make that much easier to write on . |
| 6 | today the two counties have been playing on in the championship and here 's how it finished … they tried hard to get a result but rain stopped play … and the game ended in a draw … |
| 7 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
| 8 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 9 | When we held our first University reunion outside Birmingham , in London , I was delighted that more than 200 of you came along to hear what is going on in the University now . |
| 10 | In return we in the editorial team will try to keep you up to date with what is going on in the University . |
| 11 | The eyes of some fish enable them to see not only what is going on in the water around them but in the air above the surface . |
| 12 | In the context of these questions , what is it in the brief history of White Western feminist criticism and theory that seems at odds with what is going on in the rest of the world ? |
| 13 | Mutuality is at the heart of the Godhead , ‘ the divine litany , the Father to Son to Spirit communication that is going on in the life of God himself . ’ |
| 14 | As participants , we often do not understand what is going on in the interchange , so caught up are we with our own agendas . |
| 15 | Before you read on , write down a description , about half a page in length , of what is going on in the scene . |
| 16 | It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector . |
| 17 | The object of the research is to enable the organization to find out what is going on in the market-place , and to evaluate the impact on customers , competitors and others , of the organization 's own marketing activities . |
| 18 | Something else is going on in the river |
| 19 | What is controversial about functionalism is its claim that we are going to be able to make significant generalizations about behaviour only if we think about what is going on in the brain at a particular level of description . |
| 20 | Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc . |
| 21 | WHAT is going on in the car industry ? |
| 22 | What do you think is going on in the war Jossom ? |
| 23 | Skills analysis is an attempt to get at what is going on in the operator 's mind . |
| 24 | But of course , you may prefer to join The Ramblers ' Association simply to add your voice to that of our 63,000 existing members and to keep in touch with what is going on in the countryside . |
| 25 | I sometimes think that the hon. Gentleman is so busy thinking up his contorted questions that he does not observe what is going on in the House at other times . |
| 26 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 27 | So what is going on in the world of higher education today ? |
| 28 | People often say they are confused by what is going on in the world ; it no longer seems to make sense . |
| 29 | Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends . |
| 30 | Because of poor distance vision , children may miss much of what is going on in the classroom and seem ‘ out of step ’ with the rest of the class . |