Example sentences of "[verb] on in the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 2 | They say that God intervenes directly in a supernatural sense in what goes on in the world . |
| 3 | ‘ We ca n't really know what actually goes on in the world , like whether there really is honey : all we really know , and therefore all we can really tell other people , is what we believe goes on in the world . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We ca n't really know what actually goes on in the world , like whether there really is honey : all we really know , and therefore all we can really tell other people , is what we believe goes on in the world . ’ |
| 5 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 6 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 7 | At any one time , therefore , most of the many beliefs that constitute our knowledge of what goes on in the world are beliefs that we do n't know we have . |
| 8 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 9 | So what is going on in the world of higher education today ? |
| 10 | That does n't mean you disregard adult commitments and disregard that there is some really shitty stuff going on in the world right now . |
| 11 | It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket . |
| 12 | I am as aware as anyone of the changes going on in the world . |
| 13 | ‘ I never knew there was so much going on in the world , ’ she said to John one day . |
| 14 | People often say they are confused by what is going on in the world ; it no longer seems to make sense . |
| 15 | It 's wonderful , is n't it , when trades have trade papers that can help them understand what is really going on in the world . |
| 16 | and find out what 's going on in the world . |
| 17 | I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service . |
| 18 | He had known she was old but she had been so full of vitality , and interested in all the things going on in the world , that her death was a shock . |
| 19 | be aware of what 's going on in the world in terms of not just employment but further o opportunities . |
| 20 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 21 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 22 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm thinking of the sort of attitude that suggests the unemployed do too little to help themselves , that if only you have determination and drive you can get on in the world . ’ |
| 24 | Boys should go to school because they need the skills to get on in the world , because they will spend their lives moving between household and family and the institutions of state and nation . |
| 25 | A large , fleshy , amiable bloke with a shock of gingery brown hair and a chummy manner which concealed a burning desire to be somebody , to get on in the world , Mick ( how his new girlfriend , Amanda , hated that nickname ! ) had no real interest in the ideological struggle . |
| 26 | She meant to get on in the world . |
| 27 | Alison Rubenstein discovered at an early age that if you want to get on in the world and have a good career , hard work is not enough — qualifications can also be a great help . |