Example sentences of "going on [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 2 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 3 | Customers , or suppliers , or competitors , or even what is going on in the outside world , seem of far less importance than the endless struggle to achieve and operate the perfect bureaucracy . |
| 4 | So , from The Inheritors , we understand that certain things are going on in the fictional world . |
| 5 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |