Example sentences of "is [v-ing] on [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The group is pressing on with the expansion and development of NET but really needs the embryonic United States economic recovery to develop swiftly if short term returns are to improve . |
| 3 | This kind of thinking is leading on from the question of analysis to that of evaluation . |
| 4 | In the West End there seems at the moment a tendency to rely too much on the goodwill of actors which is often accompanied by a failure to maintain a true interest in what is going on for the actor . |
| 5 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |
| 6 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 7 | 1 What is going on at the beginning of the poem ? 2 What do you think has happened before the poem begins ? 3 Do you think the boys are afraid ? |
| 8 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 9 | The unions are presently consulting the membership as to how we should respond to this and that process is going on at the moment inside G M B the difficulty of course being the low level of organization . |
| 10 | So what is going on at the moment that is affecting the management and organisation of our electronic records in local government ? |
| 11 | KEYS : ‘ But it is not just a question of what is going on on the park , it 's what 's happening elsewhere that we 're beginning to hear and read about and that 's never been the case at Liverpool previously , ever . |
| 12 | In such circumstances the individual can not think entirely of himself , and certainly the therapist can no longer afford the luxury of ignoring everything that is going on outside the consulting room ; finally , in the specific circumstances of psychoanalytic theory , the individualistic fallacy can no longer go unchallenged . |
| 13 | It is not good enough , therefore , to operate monetary policy merely by reference to what is going on outside the window on a particular day . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In broad terms , the shifts of emphasis have been related to two central themes : first , that notions of reading comprehension must take greater account of what is going on in the mind of the reader , and second , that methods of text analysis must take greater account of what is going on beyond the sentence boundary . |
| 16 | Intervention also occurs because of the difficulty for the controlling authorities in finding out what is going on within the company and ensuring that policies are implemented in practice . |
| 17 | Second , we can do a great deal to explain what is going on within the funeral service — the symbolism , the words used , the belief that lies behind some of the things said . |
| 18 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 19 | These all assume that the manager knows what is going on inside the mind of the employee . |
| 20 | This is not the case : rather , this feeling reflects much of our ignorance as to what , in detail , is going on inside the cell . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In return we in the editorial team will try to keep you up to date with what is going on in the University . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | As participants , we often do not understand what is going on in the interchange , so caught up are we with our own agendas . |
| 27 | Before you read on , write down a description , about half a page in length , of what is going on in the scene . |
| 28 | It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Something else is going on in the river |