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

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1 But if you reshape the national accounts and show the money is going on capital projects ( something of a long term value ) it becomes a different matter .
2 Alan Sillitoe 's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner has been adapted for the stage and is going on tour throughout Scotland in May and June during the Mayfest and Perth festivals .
3 Something very funny is going on back in London .
4 ‘ If he is going on holiday , the first question is ‘ How many people can we fit in the villa ? ’ ’
5 It is therefore very important that the WRVS helper , driver or the local Home Care Organiser at the Social Work Office , is informed when a recipient is going on holiday or attending hospital .
6 Well , poor old Veronica is going on holiday or something of that sort .
7 ‘ Labour 's £600m would not help primary or secondary schools as most of it is going on nursery education or restoring student grants . ’
8 German housewives are so fed up with their lives their 4,000-strong union is going on strike .
9 I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice .
10 So you mean everything I 'm saying is going on tape ?
11 A further £300m is going on pension increases for widows and an improved scheme for current workers but they are getting nothing .
12 The kit is going on sale in Britain in a few months for around £14,000 and takes between 500 and 1,000 hours to complete .
13 she 's going on holiday in January
14 When a toad looks for a pond in which to spawn , chances are it 's going on memory .
15 The reader is both astonished and utterly convinced , as he is later on in the interview when Porfiry plays the dangerous game of saying he has got no real proof , he 's going on hunch and ‘ psychology ’ — so Raskolnikov had better confess .
16 In what should have been a single sketch here protracted over two debilitating hours the only observable success was in managing to incite a young child in the audience to enquire with regular insistence : ‘ What 's going on Mum ? ’
17 So any anybody else that 's going on board is bored out their brains basically !
18 The champagne 's going on top of him !
19 It 's going on sale in September I think
20 it 's going on sale in a couple of weeks
21 It 's one of the finest collections of first world war aeroplanes in existence , and it 's going on show to give people a little taste of that old movie magic .
22 Cut all this that 's going on tape .
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