Example sentences of "[pron] is happen in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because it is happening in Africa it has received little attention . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps nothing is happening in Mons. ’ He spoke softly , almost to himself . |
| 3 | Bragg , who was once chief scientist at Rolls-Royce , works for the Science and Engineering Research Council , telling firms in the eastern part of Britain about what is happening in university research . |
| 4 | Continuing our short series on what is happening in education , today we 're going to take a look at the impact microcomputers are making on the classroom . |
| 5 | Only when things go wrong is the veil of privacy which normally conceals the workings of married life lifted , and usually in the hope of discovering that what is happening in one marriage is not , after all , so dissimilar from what is happening in others . |
| 6 | If he wants to make European comparisons , I refer him , as I referred the hon. Member for Sheffield , Hillsborough ( Mr. Flannery ) , to what is happening in France . |
| 7 | What is happening in India at the moment is something we were not expecting . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think what is happening in Panama can be compared to a raid to rescue hostages , ’ says Prof Gutteridge . |
| 9 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 10 | What we 're doing is showing them the colour of light , the hydrogen spectrum that 's given off and asking them to make some measurements on it which give a clue to the nature of what is happening in hydrogen . |
| 11 | It is right for the rest of the world to be concerned at what is happening in Germany . |
| 12 | This is perhaps best illustrated by a brief look at what is happening in Germany , Denmark , the United Kingdom and France , the three largest countries in the Community and the one in which opposition to Maastricht was born . |
| 13 | The concern then must be that when people start to suffer the rule of the power which has replaced the national government , their resentment against not having been warned of the full consequences of what was happen — There are signs that this may indeed be what is happening in Germany . |
| 14 | I think you have seen already the EOC 's concern expressed about what is happening in things like women 's centres . |
| 15 | If you want to get a grasp of what is happening in West Sussex , there is a useful one-page summary in the Housing and Environment the Housing Report which came to us last , at the last meeting . |
| 16 | If the industry can answer ‘ yes ’ to these and similar questions about other sectors of the industry it probably makes sense to take a hard look at what is happening in New Zealand and to then advocate some radical thinking in both London and Brussels . |
| 17 | Not one but two former homes secretaries have blamed television and films for what is happening in society . |
| 18 | Intermediate and upper-intermediate students will gain a better understanding of natural spoken English and an insight into what is happening in Britain today . |
| 19 | The recent torrent of shocking crime has inured the senses to what is happening in Britain 's cities : the strongest emotion is often the most understandable — I hope it 's not me next time . |
| 20 | HORROR at what is happening in Romania is every bit as justified — even if the details of the killings in Timisoara are obscure — as the global protest at the events six months ago in Tiananmen Square . |
| 21 | Why is it that the Government do not want to debate what is happening in Renfrewshire ? |
| 22 | The true revolution is what is happening in Russia and Eastern Europe today . |
| 23 | What is happening in Russia is not simply of political importance , a question of democracy versus a return to an old-guard Communist Government . |
| 24 | Charles McDonald , for Moviewatch , tells me : ‘ We think this will be a major new force in the movie industry and it wo n't just be based on what is happening in London . |
| 25 | There are wider implications : what is happening in London today is likely to happen in the rest of Britain tomorrow . |
| 26 | In a sense his experience supports his theory , but also mocks it , for the ability to perceive what is happening in London when you are in Oxford is not true spiritual knowledge . |
| 27 | Two of the best pieces here are Emeric Pressburger 's entrancing memoir of his Berlin hobo days in the 1920s , and the cinematographer Nestor Almendros 's insights into what a woman needs to become a screen goddess ; neither helps justify the book 's claim to be about what is happening in movies now . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been trying to elicit what is happening in Scotland . |
| 29 | I ask hon. Members to compare that with what is happening in Scotland and Wales . |
| 30 | ‘ Andy and myself like to think we have our fingers on the pulse of what is happening in Scotland and England , though , and on this occasion it looks likely that there will be one or two surprise selections , ’ said Brown . |