Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] go [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 If you imagine the blood 's going round and you 're trying to get you know
2 The new National Criminal Intelligence Service , which will handle all known information on 25,000 top villains , said : ‘ Crime is going up and up and up .
3 If the firm 's decision criterion is to go ahead if the expected return is 10 per cent , then it should go ahead .
4 It is also useful to have an archaeologist examine the area while construction work is going on since archaeological remains are not always easily recognized by those concerned with construction .
5 Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels .
6 When I get there — the whole place is going up and the farmer 's in his pyjamas trying to save the rick .
7 Your job is to go out and create as large a market for your band as is possible for an act without industry representation .
8 ‘ Our aim is to go there and make sure United stay at the bottom of the Premier League .
9 Mike Teague says he was amazed at how many people turned out to watch … and it just goes to show how much Gloucester people enjoy their rugby … he says his comeback is going well but there 's a lot of pressure to keep winning and England want is a third grand slam …
10 Erm , why is that there er , that review process is going up and down the country and why is that people are dissatisfied ?
11 A considerable learning process is going on and the outcome — democracy , authoritarianism or prolonged instability — is uncertain ( Sakwa , 1990 , pp. 159–69 ; Smith , 1992 , pp. 129–45 ) .
12 There are occasions when the strategy demands whole group discussions and it 's all too easy to be lulled into thinking the drama is going well because a group of very articulate children are thoroughly engaged in the work and able to vocalise their very imaginative ideas , while other children are left out of the real decisionmaking processes .
13 I should imagine your father 's going out as well . ’
14 We need a decision on whether this Million Sterling Tournament is to go ahead or not .
15 The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down .
16 See if the counter 's going up and things like that .
17 On to a Category C , given home leave , first thing he does on home leave is go out and kill an Asian man .
18 ‘ If the government is going more and more toward privatisation , [ acquiring Finsiel ] should n't be a problem , ’ he noted .
19 ‘ I wo n't march off and ask what the hell is going on because I know he will be acting in the best interests of the team .
20 Yeah I agree with that , if you know somebody well , especially if you know somebody well and if you work with people and you communicate with people you build up trust , and if the communication 's there and people are talking to each other and passing on information , information 's going round and round trust 'll be there , the only time trust disappears is when somebody feels somebody 's keeping something back .
21 Some of this noise turns up unexpectedly when cruising around the motorway limit , and the only answer is to go faster or slower .
22 The rumour 's going round that erm Dave and yeah
23 This is an example of a patient who has a stable cystometogram and in the course of the voiding study voids with a high pressure , the stylus is going up and down the whole time
24 It 's to keep you invested in building societies , only they , they 're frantic because all the money 's going out and they want to keep their erm their erm deposits up , so they 're offering these schemes , and they are quite good , there are no charges as such , but er you 'll get the value of the fund that they 've made , or you 'll get a say two or three percent bonus per annum on top of the er share rate , er if you keep it for four or five years .
25 ‘ The recession is going on and on , ’ Mr Anderson said , ‘ particularly in the housing market . ’
26 Supervised by a task force headed by project manager , the building is going ahead while the rest of the chemicals plant remains operational .
27 But I must say I 'm very encouraged to see the numbers of women who are applying to do subjects like chemistry and physics is going up and certainly we would applaud that sort of activity .
28 ‘ The bag is gone forever but I have been able at least to recover this . ’
29 As the earth is going round and round the sun , we take the the overhead projector here as being the sun , the earth is erm actually no that 's not gon na work .
30 The message conveyed to the brain from one such cell is a bit ambiguous : it is saying either that a stationary spot is going on or off in a particular region , or that something is moving upwards in that region .
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