Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the National Certificate , with its competence-based , internally-assessed modules , has almost become part of the educational establishment now , we should not forget that Scotland led the way in the development of this kind of award and our experience has been drawn on in subsequent moves to make all Britain 's vocational qualifications modular and competence-based . |
| 2 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 3 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 4 | There are many businesses that can be carried on in rural and residential areas without causing unacceptable disturbance … |
| 5 | The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier . |
| 6 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 7 | For the last six hours , the girls were operated on in separate theatres . |
| 8 | The Light Blues had a half-length lead at the Old Ship but with Gardiner setting an excellent rhythm , and with Davy , Maclennan and Bridge backing magnificently , Oxford were holding on in flat water . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To understand what is going on in physiological psychology one needs to know what these assumptions are . |
| 11 | That is a quite legitimate interest , but surely what is going on in other parts of the country should be of interest to all of us . |
| 12 | In general , it can often be difficult for us to be sure just what is going on in supposed examples of communication . |
| 13 | okay , anybody got any other reasons why they think that maybe we ought to know what 's going on in other countries , why , why would we be interested in the roots in Kenya , India , why would we be interested in those countries ? |
| 14 | Handmaids are n't allowed to answer back , so most of the book is concerned with what 's going on in Offred 's head . |
| 15 | The way the paint 's put on in various places makes the painting take off , as it were , where the paint gets fuzzy ’ . |
| 16 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 17 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
| 18 | The interest shown by so many ninth-century chroniclers , wherever they were based , in what was going on in other parts of that world , and specifically , in what kings did , reflects a persisting reality . |
| 19 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 20 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 21 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 22 | We 've known something was going on in northern Romania for some time . |