Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] on in " 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 | I have lived in many parts of America , and I can assure you all that Hawaii is as breathtaking as you imagine , that the charm of the Old South is living on in Charleston , and that colonial America will come alive in the small towns of New England , particularly in the autumn when , in the words of Henry James , the ‘ weather is like tinkling crystal and the colours like molten jewels . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 13 | Let mummy just watch the news then I think Playbus is coming on in a moment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Owen asked how John Postlethwaite was getting on in the ministry . |
| 17 | We wondered how Pop was getting on in Mayrnyo without us , but dear Madriya and his wife had stayed to look after him and the soldiers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But the real fun is going on in a nearby barn with pumpkin lanterns . |
| 20 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
| 21 | It did n't take him long , and all she wanted were her books and all the time the mother was crying and rocking backwards and forwards and the old father was ranting on in Yiddish . |
| 22 | It was already past midnight when they got to see Dustin , who was playing pool by himself , while a huge party for the cast was going on in another suite . |
| 23 | As soon as he was out of uniform , Connor applied to take over the management of the public-house from his parents — Mam and Da were getting on in years , and Da was n't a well man — but the Brewery were not prepared to lease the pub to a bachelor . |
| 24 | The move by Precision to break out of the workstation market into the higher echelons of data analysis is , the company says , the first in a series of developments the firm is working on in the supercomputing arena . |
| 25 | Well now , do they run a show and that racket 's going on in the entertainment club at the same time ? |
| 26 | I just ca n't understand what the bloody hell 's going on in his mind — his crafty crooked little beetle-brain , I mean , " he added to keep his end up . |
| 27 | ‘ What the hell 's going on in there ? |
| 28 | I mean you know , I mean it was just impossible , I do n't know what the hell 's going on in there . |
| 29 | ‘ No , I damn well do n't know what the hell is going on in that pretty little head of yours , but I 'm fast losing patience . |
| 30 | Following the news that the IBM Corp and Apple Computer Inc PowerPC RISC effort is coming on in leaps and bounds ( UX No 384 ) , rumours floated on the airwaves last week that the first boxes built around the architecture will be out by the end of this year . |