Example sentences of "[noun sg] going [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and there 's , and there 's enough fighting going on in this bloody house |
| 2 | Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know . |
| 3 | A TV commentator told viewers during the final morning 's play : ‘ We have seen plenty of seam lifting going on in this match . ’ |
| 4 | The first fruits of their mental endeavour are a sobering awareness of the likely complexities of the post-war Middle East and an unease about the meagre quantity of strategic thinking going on in other European and Arab capitals . |
| 5 | There has been work going on for sometime in developing user friendly programs for statistical analysis which are ‘ intelligent ’ in that they include many checks for pitfalls and errors . |
| 6 | When they get to Italy the teacher decides it 's all a bit cosy : there 's a lot of good work going on in other curriculum areas , and the children are enjoying it , but where 's the drama ? ! |
| 7 | Bishop Gray gave his full support to the work going on in many of the schools and parishes , and expressed a wish that the programme would be quickly at the heart of all our schools . |
| 8 | Yet despite fine work going on in many schools , classrooms and library resource centres , it is all too common to find teachers reverting to type , schools with equipment stowed away unused , library resource centres which have become simply print shops for the production of work sheets and diagrams , supplementing teacher.exposition and drill . |
| 9 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 10 | Did her mother guess there was a battle going on in this house ; in fact , various battles ? |
| 11 | With Kuwait 's refinery capacity going up to 664,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 1986 , KPC 's policy is to look for further outlets . |
| 12 | According to Bernard , as there was a long and well-established tradition of acceptability of anti-predestinarian theology going back to 1559 and beyond , the events of the 1630s did not represent any sea-change in the doctrinal position of the English church . |
| 13 | And a supplementary question going on from that . |
| 14 | that we need some extra cooking going on in this house . |
| 15 | were unable to break through a Herrington defence going down by two clear goals . |
| 16 | There is a good deal of self-censorship going on in these chapters about the festival . |
| 17 | On the following day Eskdalemuir , in the Southern Uplands , reached its highest ever February temperature of 14.0C ( in a record going back to 1914 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ It happened just before the end of the tax-year , because everyone is worried about tax going up from 40 to 50 p.c. if Labour gets in . ’ |
| 19 | To make sure it 's not gon na have a motorway going through in next year or whatever and |
| 20 | Sri Lanka had a lot going for it : democracy going back to 1931 and a literacy rate which , at 88% , is the highest of the 43 countries the World Bank classifies as ‘ low-income ’ . |
| 21 | In consequence , the price of petrol and kerosene rose sharply , as did the prices of a wide range of basic commodities , with butane gas going up by 130 per cent and basic food items by between 90 and 100 per cent . |
| 22 | I heard from Bridget there 's some kind of row going on about masculine endings . |
| 23 | There was her daughter going round in that car , clean hair flying , her good face not alarmed but alert , perhaps a hint of scare , a rather solemn smile when she caught sight of her friends — every time she came round she smiled at them , so proud — soaring up there , graceful , absorbed in the movement , not moving herself . |
| 24 | However , his denials were rejected by Barnard who described himself as a scapegoat and claimed that there was " a cover-up going on from ministerial level down " . |
| 25 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 26 | The machine is called a ‘ Fourdrinier ’ machine and mimics the hand process in a continuous conveyor belt fashion with wet pulp going on at one end and a dry roll of paper at the other . |
| 27 | Especially followed by a letter going on for nine densely filled pages . |
| 28 | People are frightened Ron there is a fear thing going on in this place . |
| 29 | There does seem to be a lot going on in this neighbourhood . |
| 30 | Well the shadow of these wheels going round like that , this is what we learnt , al that 's what I learnt anyway , shadow going round like that keep marking on the walls and the sun do n't they ? |