Example sentences of "[is] go on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the use of continuing our race if it is to go on in darkness ? ’ |
| 2 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 3 | The people of Midlothian are sick of the Liberal Democrats , because an argument is going on at present in Midlothian about who most wants to back the consortium and whether it is the Scottish National party or the Liberal Democrats . |
| 4 | Now I feel I must write about what is going on at Everton FC . |
| 5 | During the time they have off they are kept in touch with what is going on at work by their line manager . |
| 6 | Erm the next stage is going on to unit four which is the the actual training plan which I think is where we 're we 're at today . |
| 7 | During my right hon. Friend 's discussions , did he have a chance to discuss the appalling slaughter that is going on between Armenians and Azeris , not least over the Armenian conclave of Nagorny-Karabakh ? |
| 8 | Diana much prefers sitting in the body of the auditorium where she can see what is going on on stage . |
| 9 | We can get some idea of what is going on by thinking of a sheet of canvas stretched on a horizontal frame . |
| 10 | Although we ca n't hear the ultrasound pulses of these bats directly , we can get some idea of what is going on by means of a translating machine or " bat-detector " . |
| 11 | However , this is clearly not what is going on in anorexia nervosa , although I do believe that emptiness is being used as a metaphor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So what is going on in illness ? |
| 14 | ‘ The problem for people at the USTA and the LTA is that they are too far removed from what is going on in tennis to know what is really required , ’ he says . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to know what is going on in Birmingham , chapter and verse . ’ |
| 16 | Both the local and national matter , and what is going on in history will not be understood without reference to both . |
| 17 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 18 | The Women 's Section of , the African National Congress in Lusaka , supporting joint action , for the release of political prisoners and detainees , and against forced removals , issued a statement on International Women 's Day , calling upon women of the world to insist on the right to know what is going on in South Africa ; to intensify the campaign for sanctions ; to fight for prisoner of war status for captured combatants ; to support the Save the Patriots campaign and to remember Daisy Modise , the only woman patriot of the 62 prisoners on death row . |
| 19 | If that is starting again , it is as bad as what is going on in Mogadishu . |
| 20 | Here is a spoken description of what is going on in Figure 15 given by a patient with Broca 's aphasia ( from Funnell , 1983 ) : |
| 21 | Here is how a patient with Wernicke 's aphasia gave an account of what is going on in Figure 15 ( Funnell , 1983 ) : |
| 22 | Although it is easy to observe what is going on in practice , constructing an explicit statement of what the system is that is being considered inevitably gives rise to problems of interpretation and semantics . |
| 23 | The periodicals keep you in touch with what is going on in practice and indicate new developments in research . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Further work is going on in terms of market augmentation to clarify things for consumers . ’ |
| 26 | They understand what is going on in ways that make sense to them and , if we want to understand their behaviour , and perhaps to explain it , we have to start from where they are . |
| 27 | ‘ What is going on in Bosnia is genocide , ’ he said . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ What is going on in Bosnia is genocide . |
| 29 | One of the most disgraceful international aspects of what is going on in Bosnia is that Western leaders , including our own , seem to be accepting the escalating Serbian brutality , and its consequences of carnage , rape , starvation and terror as if it were inevitable and beyond their combined capacities for effective reaction or remedy . |
| 30 | But this suggests simply that a kind of unconscious holding operation is going on among psychology 's more powerful subjects . |