Example sentences of "are [verb] 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 | So , from The Inheritors , we understand that certain things are going on in the fictional world . |
| 3 | Both processes are going on in the two locales , sometimes with a single agency carrying out both simultaneously . |
| 4 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
| 5 | This diversification requires that the genes coding for the ‘ luxury ’ proteins in these cell types are switched on in the appropriate cell . |