Example sentences of "[verb] on in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 32 | To understand what is going on in physiological psychology one needs to know what these assumptions are . |
| 33 | The first fruits of their mental endeavour are a sobering awareness of the likely complexities of the post-war Middle East and an unease about the meagre quantity of strategic thinking going on in other European and Arab capitals . |
| 34 | A feature of the in-service programme at Codsall Comprehensive School , for instance , was a guided tour of the school , the Director of Resources showing teachers what was actually going on in other departments . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | That is a quite legitimate interest , but surely what is going on in other parts of the country should be of interest to all of us . |
| 37 | The interest shown by so many ninth-century chroniclers , wherever they were based , in what was going on in other parts of that world , and specifically , in what kings did , reflects a persisting reality . |
| 38 | When they get to Italy the teacher decides it 's all a bit cosy : there 's a lot of good work going on in other curriculum areas , and the children are enjoying it , but where 's the drama ? ! |
| 39 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 40 | okay , anybody got any other reasons why they think that maybe we ought to know what 's going on in other countries , why , why would we be interested in the roots in Kenya , India , why would we be interested in those countries ? |
| 41 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 42 | Much research along these lines is going on in various parts of the world ; the quantum Hall effect is an offshoot that derives from curiosity about the effects of a strong magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plane of the two-dimensional system . |
| 43 | Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know . |
| 44 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 45 | Even in a school where plenty of interdisciplinary discussion took place , this was often a revelation ; " new methods " were no longer something one heard of elsewhere , but something going on in familiar surroundings . |
| 46 | We 've known something was going on in northern Romania for some time . |
| 47 | In general , it can often be difficult for us to be sure just what is going on in supposed examples of communication . |
| 48 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 49 | Handmaids are n't allowed to answer back , so most of the book is concerned with what 's going on in Offred 's head . |
| 50 | These cells are classified into about 210 ( according to taste ) different kinds , all built by the same set of genes but with different members of the set of genes turned on in different kinds of cells . |
| 51 | Braintree hang on in captivating encounter |
| 52 | 27 It hangs on in frosty weather ( 6 ) |
| 53 | They arrive on stage in strict order of precedence , the noblest usually arriving last so that the lesser characters can look on in suitable admiration , whilst the servants ( the corps de ballet ) keep their distance . |
| 54 | We drive on in subdued silence . |
| 55 | Four-year-olds are very different from five-years-olds , says Sandra Brown , an educational researcher who has looked at how four-year-olds get on in primary schools . |
| 56 | The Light Blues had a half-length lead at the Old Ship but with Gardiner setting an excellent rhythm , and with Davy , Maclennan and Bridge backing magnificently , Oxford were holding on in flat water . |
| 57 | And with the vague , uneasy sense that , having forced the door open a little way , the country on the other side might prove a lot stranger than she 'd ever imagined , she walked on in subdued silence for a while . ) |
| 58 | Jane is an abductee , someone who believes they have been forcibly abducted by aliens , spirited up to spaceships and physically experimented on in various alarming ways ( rectal probing , artificial insemination , induced premature births ) . |
| 59 | How well a foreigner gets on in Italian football , he thinks , depends on his own attitude . |
| 60 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |