Example sentences of "of [noun] going [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the chivalry of Abyssinia going forth to war , unchanged as yet from the armies of the past . |
| 2 | Most sociologists would wish to maintain that , while their social science does not meet the rigorous criteria of a natural science , in terms of the procedures used for verification of theoretical hypotheses there is some disciplined thinking and testing of ideas going on in sociology which does distinguish it from religious or mystical thinking . |
| 3 | So if you take a hundred gallons on a day meter , you 're charged for a hundred gallons of water going out as sewage , er the Anglia rate is is is double ours for sewage . |
| 4 | The initial investment and costs of occasional replacements are well repaid by improvements in behaviour and happier children which reduces the number of tales going home of playground fighting and bullying . |
| 5 | Well people are not bound to lose , because some people do finish up ahead , but most people should expect to lose for the simple reason that bookies have got to make a living somehow , and therefore the odds that they offer to entice people to go in are such as to expect the bookie to make a profit , but that does n't mean to say that I am against the idea of people going in for gambling . |
| 6 | ‘ It is terribly distressing to watch hundreds of years of history going up in smoke , ’ she said . |
| 7 | And yet the proportion of women going out to work has doubled over the last thirty-five years ( from 30% to 60% between 1951 and 1987 ) , and almost all this increase is in part-time work . |