Example sentences of "[noun pl] going on [prep] " in BNC.

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1 INDOOR bowlers from Towerlands and Ipswich will contest all four events in the area finals of the Manchester Unity National Championships , with the winners going on to Melton Mowbray at the end of the month .
2 INDOOR bowlers from Towerlands and Ipswich will contest all four events in the area finals of the Manchester Unity National Championships , with the winners going on to Melton Mowbray at the end of the month .
3 The local heats take place at Acklam Sports Centre on Wednesday and Thursday , July 29 and 30 with the winners going on to the regional final on August 5 .
4 This Sunday the world-wide Fun for Nature 's Walk for the Rain Forest is taking place , and that there are three hundred walks going on throughout the country , four of them are in Oxfordshire , and Sue May is , is concentrating on the walks at Burford Wildlife Park and also the one at Banbury .
5 You are lost in a strange country , among a lot of incomprehensible wogs going on about Twenty-fourthers and God knows what , and you are probably scared stiff ! ’
6 Simon Cope of London-based commercial agent Gerald Eve , which is marketing the scheme jointly with Sanderson Townend & Gilbert , said : ‘ There has been as reasonable amount of interest in the past , and marketing has occasionally been stopped while discussions have taken place , but there are serious discussions going on at the moment . ’
7 Yet , judging by the earnest discussions going on around her , the melancholy theme seemed to have had the effect of switching everyone 's thoughts away from the actual tragedy that had happened in their midst .
8 8–12 There have been extensive improvements going on in Jura during the last two years .
9 Yeah , and what did you get you see , you get mutations going on in plants so that you get at the moment when the plants themselves are altered , it does n't necessary , necessary mean that they 're killed off , it does n't necessary mean that they are killed off , it means that the actual genes alter , that they go on breathing so you get ginormous sort of cabbages , you know , cabbages that 'll normally be about that size , suddenly become that size
10 Erm the element of control side of it , is extremely frustrating and have have been hinted at by previous speakers to see what are in effect regular and truly massive retail operations going on without development control , without the development of any kind of highway controls which is a county council matter is fully my argue frustrating .
11 Sandeep , used only to life in a Bombay high-rise , is hypnotised by the daily rituals going on around him — his aunt rubbing oil into her black hair , his uncle retiring to the lavatory with an ashtray , a newspaper and a pair of reading glasses .
12 Their evolution is governed by the nuclear reactions going on inside the star and making it shine .
13 There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely .
14 With all these activities going on around you , ‘ time out ’ is definitely needed .
15 Travel to and from work may have been combined with other activities , or with a knowledge of other activities going on around them .
16 I do n't happen to think bolting is in the least bit environmentally damaging ( at least not compared with other activities going on around it ) but mechanical drills are bound to give it a bad image — the message her is ‘ bolters , do your stuff in winter or at night . ’
17 There were enough activities going on around the field ; surely there was somewhere his services were needed ?
18 Relatively simple observation of the activities going on within one 's head would produce such a phenomenological definition .
19 But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland .
20 The solution , it seems , is for chief executives and senior managers to take a much stronger personal interest in the projects going on in their organisations .
21 There was nothing to keep him here that could outweigh the thought of the possible conspiracies going on behind his back back home .
22 Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit .
23 Most sociologists would wish to maintain that , while their social science does not meet the rigorous criteria of a natural science , in terms of the procedures used for verification of theoretical hypotheses there is some disciplined thinking and testing of ideas going on in sociology which does distinguish it from religious or mystical thinking .
24 of CCA comments , ‘ I do not think that this experiment is going to substitute and take the place of several experiments going on in the Third World .
25 Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful .
26 PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway .
27 There were all sorts of things going on with the WTA board , and I took a leadership position there .
28 Now what about the cream , how are things going on with that , cos you 've been
29 I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe .
30 ‘ Hear you 've got great things going on over there . ’
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