Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] going on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc . |
| 7 | Further work is going on in terms of market augmentation to clarify things for consumers . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | And the piss was going on for ages . |
| 14 | The boy was going on at length with apparent fluency . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Many current debates about the future of medical education are going on among small groups of specialists , with no input from the vast majority of people who do the actual teaching . |
| 23 | A Canadian Forces official said all 130 passengers and crew were going on to Chicago , and no arrests had been made . |
| 24 | So all the technical stuff 's going on inside the machine , and the user is spared the problems of knowing how to work it . |
| 25 | But the real fun is going on in a nearby barn with pumpkin lanterns . |
| 26 | I wanted to know what the heck was going on between us ! ’ |
| 27 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 28 | The people of Midlothian are sick of the Liberal Democrats , because an argument is going on at present in Midlothian about who most wants to back the consortium and whether it is the Scottish National party or the Liberal Democrats . |
| 29 | An extensive art exhibition is going on through much of the region giving local talent a showing . |
| 30 | A spirited argument was going on around the sweetheart plant when Rain got back from Hatherley . |