Example sentences of "[noun] [be] going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 2 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 6 | The Provos , he claimed , had reserves of munitions and were determined to keep going , even though a debate of sorts was going on within the Republican movement . |
| 7 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc . |
| 10 | Further work is going on in terms of market augmentation to clarify things for consumers . ’ |
| 11 | Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends . |
| 12 | Footpaths have been widened in Bondgate and similar work is going on near the Northgate , Tubwell Row and Priestgate entrances to the Cornmill shopping centre . |
| 13 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 14 | Erm often it 's the father , often the abuse is going on in connection with a whole range of processes whereby that person dominates the climate in that household . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Work was going on in this specific area at Harwell , where it was classified secret , and now a leading Soviet was offering to come and tell all ! |
| 17 | And the piss was going on for ages . |
| 18 | The boy was going on at length with apparent fluency . |
| 19 | they , they all sitting on , a few of us sitting on the seat , the girl that was all shaky she was going for an interview at a Birmingham University another lady was going on to Northfield |
| 20 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 21 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 22 | But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past . |
| 23 | The unions are presently consulting the membership as to how we should respond to this and that process is going on at the moment inside G M B the difficulty of course being the low level of organization . |
| 24 | Some similar process is going on in anorexia nervosa : the conscious will has to be supreme because the anorexic has to be in complete control . |
| 25 | I could discover no mention whatever of the fact that this conference was going on in its city erm but there was one mention of evolution . |
| 26 | Mr Annesley said his senior officers were ‘ rigorously assisting ’ Mr Stevens , while Mr Brooke said the investigation was going on in a ‘ thoroughly effective ’ way . |
| 27 | THE lights are going on in Bucharest . |
| 28 | You do n't know that you are inadvertently causing the work to arrive late by stressing its urgency any more than you know what thoughts and feelings are going on inside the typist . |
| 29 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 30 | So , from The Inheritors , we understand that certain things are going on in the fictional world . |