Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 2 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 3 | So , from The Inheritors , we understand that certain things are going on in the fictional world . |
| 4 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 5 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 6 | If the adventurers want to see what is going on in the Black Pit , all they have to do is rap twice in rapid succession with the rod upon the rail . |
| 7 | The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East immediately tried to suppress that , and that is indicative of the battle that is going on in the Labour party — It was said by the Leader of the Opposition himself . |
| 8 | This is precisely the limitation of state-centrist approaches and why all analyses that begin and end with nation-states have such difficulty in finding explanations of what is going on in the global system . |
| 9 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 10 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 11 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 12 | Customers , or suppliers , or competitors , or even what is going on in the outside world , seem of far less importance than the endless struggle to achieve and operate the perfect bureaucracy . |
| 13 | The industrial paradigm has been based on the idea that the purpose of life is the satisfaction of our physical needs ( including our intellectual need to understand what is going on in the physical universe ) . |
| 14 | I am very pleased to see what is going on in the coming year . |
| 15 | They get to find out what is going on in the local employment scene . |
| 16 | What is going on in the Royal Family ? |
| 17 | It 's very helpful for both sides of the community , I 'm sure , to have contact like this and I think that the programme is usually very well devised in that you do have something either of mutual interest or one area and then the other area so that we can be informed about erm what 's going on in the other section of the community . |
| 18 | We 've got a whole erm , a whole erm organisation that in fact the Council for Voluntary Service only this week made an appointment with a very , very , very , very small amount of money that 's been made available on a very , very part-time basis , to actually assist with that , with the planning that 's going on in the voluntary sector . |
| 19 | They , I think like everybody else were succumbed to the fact that readers do like to know what 's going on in the Royal Family . |
| 20 | The move by Precision to break out of the workstation market into the higher echelons of data analysis is , the company says , the first in a series of developments the firm is working on in the supercomputing arena . |
| 21 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 22 | She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal . |
| 23 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |