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Example sentences of "[noun sg] is going [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country .
2	‘ Right Piper that is what I want you to play as the Brigade is going ashore . ’
3	The result is a sense that a great deal is going on , although how good all this writing is and , even more significantly , what the make-up of the new public and the social function of its reading are matters for debate .
4	A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there .
5	Is it because the right hand side is going so badly ?
6	In fact , the Institute 's Tax Faculty is worried that the Revenue is going too far .
7	The programme is going well , but needs to go better .
8	My mind is going round in circles . ’
9	After many years and three gardens , the optimism is going well ; I still battle with my impatience , but I am finally coming to grips with giving the essentials of sustenance to the garden .
10	‘ I 'm going to see how the search is going on . ’
11	I shall want one of the senior staff in each department while the search is going on .
12	An early start is being made , in fact scaffolding is going up already .
13	Yeah but I agree totally with what , and the other lady has just said , but the other thing is is the amount of money that is spent when , you know , someone royal is coming for a visit because all of a sudden , you know , you have people in this country who are living in absolute poverty and yet because the royal sort of erm limousine is going past erm , for a few seconds where they stay all of a sudden the front of the house is painted !
14	Much research is going on to discover causes and treatment .
15	And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way .
16	They have n't decided yet whether my car is going up to his office or to fishing .
17	‘ 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 ?
18	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 !
19	The new National Criminal Intelligence Service , which will handle all known information on 25,000 top villains , said : ‘ Crime is going up and up and up .
20	And if they say well , we want erm seventy five different locations served with crisps stands by ten o'clock tomorrow because our advert is going out on national T V tomorrow can we do it ?
21	God knows what 'll happen now that poor old Quex is going home .
22	Despite a worldwide protest campaign , the first in a series of shipments of plutonium from Europe to Japan to supply the local nuclear-power industry is going ahead .
23	Even today , when the tottering of a Goldcrest or TESE is taken as a sign that the film industry is going under , it 's assumed that big companies are the key to surviving in the film business , because that 's the way they do things in LA .
24	So the , the overall figure is going down , and this really reflects the way outbreaks have occurred , in that some areas have a lot early on , they 're dropping off .
25	I hope the review is going well .
26	The cabaret is going home ! ’
27	A rape is going on .
28	‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction .
29	Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies .
30	Work is going on in the Beaufort Sea on the West Coast and also off the East Coast where a significant discovery — Hibernia — has led to disagreement and a legal dispute between the federal government and the province of Newfoundland concerning sovereignty over offshore fuels .