Example sentences of "with [pron] [be] going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Connected with what 's going on at the moment ? ’ |
| 2 | erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country . |
| 3 | I do n't hold with what 's going on up North — if Britain ever left , there 'd be another Civil War . ’ |
| 4 | Handmaids are n't allowed to answer back , so most of the book is concerned with what 's going on in Offred 's head . |
| 5 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 6 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 7 | If a bird has food , it 's much more concerned with what 's going on around it , because it 's afraid that another predator might steal it . |
| 8 | I would agree that the scientist being is probably is constant withdrawal from his because he ca n't cope with what 's going on around him , whilst he is in his scientific research . |
| 9 | Marketing is the one function of management which has to be more concerned with what is going on outside the organization than with what is happening internally . |
| 10 | During the time they have off they are kept in touch with what is going on at work by their line manager . |
| 11 | She loves talking to people , and keeping in touch with what is going on in their lives . |
| 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 | The periodicals keep you in touch with what is going on in practice and indicate new developments in research . |
| 14 | In return we in the editorial team will try to keep you up to date with what is going on in the University . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |