Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 2 | All this light spilling on to the driveway , it just was n't like him . |
| 3 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 4 | Could you say a little bit more about the research going on in the Education Area ? |
| 5 | Listen to people on the Continent going on about the inadequacies of their own health-care systems . |
| 6 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 7 | We had a business man on Question Time who was saying that five hundred million pound fraud going on in the benefits , right ? |
| 8 | One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement . |
| 9 | He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house . |
| 10 | The new IT programme following on from the ESPRIT 11 will be the largest of the Framework lines with a total allocation of 1352 MECU ( £950 million ) . |
| 11 | The main part of volume three is taken up by a massive review following on from the symbiont chapter in volume two . |
| 12 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 13 | Trams and buses henceforward shared the same Body and Paint shops , while a new Fitting shop was created in an adjacent building fronting on to the Coliseum . |
| 14 | Surely not all that protein synthesis going on in the absence of the inhibitor could be about learning and memory ; some other fundamental aspects of behaviour must be affected ? |
| 15 | Still a fair bit of repair work going on along the M forty , between junctions one and one A , that 's the stretch between Denham and the M twenty-five , the outside lane is closed in both directions . |
| 16 | There 's still a fair bit of repair work going on along the M forty , between junctions one and one A , that 's the stretch between Denham and the M twenty five , the outside lane is closed in both directions . |
| 17 | Clearly it is easier for a minister to accept this sort of legislation than to develop a policy that effectively changes the direction of a great deal of work going on within the department . |
| 18 | And I genuinely would say , that I actually think the amount of international and European work going on within the organisation as a whole , is now greater than it was before . |
| 19 | The publication of the Government 's Green Paper , health of the nation and all the work going on around the country , on the implementation programme for the community care reforms , means that N C V O must attempt to rebuild its own capacity , to undertake effective policy development work in these areas . |
| 20 | ‘ I know from other work going on in the south of Shetland that 10 per cent of the residents there remain concerned about the possibility of major long-term health effects , ’ he said . |
| 21 | He 's got to fulfil all three roles , and the more managerial work going on in the office , the harder it is to find the time to do the work for the clients , which is what produces the fees . |
| 22 | But there is clearly a power battle going on among the Lancaster Gate mandarins , illustrated by the words of 78year-old chairman Sir Bert Millichip . |
| 23 | Meanwhile there 's nothing mystical about the version of Sumo wrestling going on in the city centre . |
| 24 | Agnes Winkowski turned from the frightened child clinging on to the side of her hand-cart and looked back to watch two men of the law speeding after the woman . |
| 25 | and the percentage staying on until the sixth year from 14 per cent . |
| 26 | I continued to go off and on although I do have some special memories as a youngster running on to the Hillsborough turf to shake John Giles 's hand after beating Birmingham 3–0 in the Cup semi-final ( 1972 ) . |
| 27 | The ground plan normally consisted of three main rooms , the baggage room and the waiting-room at each end , with the office between , usually with a bay window projecting on to the platform to afford the station agent a view up and down the tracks . |
| 28 | Some of the children were screaming as they watched the tussle going on between the nun and the girl whom they secretly admired and envied because she was n't afraid of the dreaded Sister Mary . |
| 29 | There 's a lot of change going on in the game at the moment , which is always a healthy sign . |
| 30 | there is some change going on in the rural economy and perhaps he does want to interpret it as er a revolution which the communists can actually get involved in so he 's writing his paper and saying look , this is happening it may not be a rel revolution , but it |