Example sentences of "[v-ing] on in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 2 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 3 | ‘ Also I ca n't see cafes catching on in the North , we have n't got the weather to sit outside . ’ |
| 4 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 5 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 6 | Our fifth type must therefore be the traditionalist , for whom it is a pleasure to find the past living on in the present . |
| 7 | What makes sense therefore , is to put the work organiser at either end of the binder , to build those up , so that pages where you really will be writing on in the binder , which are the diary pages will become elevated towards the middle of the rings , and make that much easier to write on . |
| 8 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 9 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland . |
| 12 | He walked around watching the instructors putting the men through their paces and , as on his last visit , seemed to take a particular interest in what was going on in the boxing ring . |
| 13 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
| 14 | Nenad Bucin , the representative for Montenegro and a strong supporter of the Serbian cause , similarly declared a boycott of the Collective State Presidency , stating that he could " not reconcile himself to the processes of deliberate disintegration " going on in the country . |
| 15 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 16 | The eyes of some fish enable them to see not only what is going on in the water around them but in the air above the surface . |
| 17 | What is controversial about functionalism is its claim that we are going to be able to make significant generalizations about behaviour only if we think about what is going on in the brain at a particular level of description . |
| 18 | I have no quarrel with Searle 's claim that ‘ mental phenomena are caused by processes going on in the brain ’ . |
| 19 | The object of the research is to enable the organization to find out what is going on in the market-place , and to evaluate the impact on customers , competitors and others , of the organization 's own marketing activities . |
| 20 | There were all sorts of busy monkish things going on in the courtyard of the monastery of Saint Sacco Benedetto . |
| 21 | Well now , do they run a show and that racket 's going on in the entertainment club at the same time ? |
| 22 | There was nothing going on in the centre of . |
| 23 | ‘ Ruddock 's trouble was that he was always going on in the build-up to the fight about how he reckoned he used to knock me out in sparring when we were kids . |
| 24 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 25 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
| 26 | Could you say a little bit more about the research going on in the Education Area ? |
| 27 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
| 28 | ‘ I know which players I want and which ones to release , but I do n't know what 's going on in the boardroom . ’ |
| 29 | The task of the Prime Minister was unremitting , for he was on duty every minute of the day and night and must know all that was going on in the Government . |
| 30 | Mutuality is at the heart of the Godhead , ‘ the divine litany , the Father to Son to Spirit communication that is going on in the life of God himself . ’ |