Example sentences of "is going [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Czechoslovakia is going ahead with a $50 million programme to improve the safety of its controversial V-1 unit at Jaslovske Bohunice plant , despite Austrian requests that it be closed on the grounds that its proximity to the border posed a threat to Austrian citizens . |
| 2 | There is , perhaps , a feeling that there are so many factors , so many interactions , that the whole system is going around in a circle , almost out of control . |
| 3 | You know is going forward to a week on Sunday and then whatever else happens we 're going through the process are n't we ? |
| 4 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 5 | The computer turns its interpretation of what is going on into a television picture — healthy tissue is coloured green , tumours show up red . |
| 6 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 7 | About half a mile away an attack is going in on a hill , I can see Commandos advancing up the slopes , shells burst a short distance in front of the forward troops , probably covering fire from the British Artillery . |
| 8 | ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ? |
| 9 | Because there is every possibility that if the fund payers determine quality , they will tend to overlook areas in which quality is going down as a result of financial pressures — |
| 10 | And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon . |
| 11 | Like releases , captions should be kept short and to the point and unless the picture is going out as a photo-story with no separate release , this means very short indeed . |
| 12 | And the Isle of Ely college is going out for a meal , so that wo n't be back , so he ca n't have that one , so we have n't got one ! |