Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No clear distinction could yet be made between the wholesale and retail trades that were carried on in the ‘ shops ’ in the historic centre of the city . |
| 2 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 3 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
| 4 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 5 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 6 | And if we look at the implications er West Yorkshire which were touched on in the beginning of this part of the debate . |
| 7 | The grey trousers were put on in the month of March last and the white waistcoats in May . ’ |
| 8 | But then , as night fell and the lights were switched on in the carriage , illuminating the sepia photographs of Morecambe Bay at dawn and donkeys trotting Blackpool sands , he felt his privacy was being invaded and had stopped making those conciliatory gestures . |
| 9 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 10 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 11 | He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions . |
| 12 | Ken Pitt : ‘ I think the great problem was David was always very insecure and because he was n't achieving the renown he wanted , like most artists he began to worry , bearing in mind that David was now living at Haddon Hall with a few of his friends , all of whom were unaware of what was going on in the office and how we were planning David 's career , what progress we were really making . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | It seems that Jesus himself organised this last journey , from the borrowing of a donkey and its foal to the challenging protest against what was going on in the Temple courts . |
| 15 | She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal . |
| 16 | They did n't seem to be very bothered about issues other than what was going on in the village itself . |
| 17 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 18 | She may perhaps have felt a little out of place but she articulates a rare understanding of what was going on in the place , all underpinned by an almost total recall of the fascinating minutiae of day-to-day events . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What was going on in the castle they could only guess at . |
| 21 | It may help us to understand some of the subsequent developments better if first we have an impression of what was going on in the University of Utah chemistry department in 1988 , up to and around the time of the interaction with Jones . |
| 22 | Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child . |
| 23 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 24 | He recalls once telling a group of students to clear their minds and observe what was going on in the room . |
| 25 | Yet what was going on in the exchequer and treasury was only symptomatic of changes throughout government , from chancery to wardrobe and chamber , from the great seal to the privy seal . |
| 26 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
| 27 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |
| 28 | The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box . |
| 29 | By screwing her eyes up against the glare , she could just about make out what was going on in the refectory . |
| 30 | Whatever was going on in the village at the time when say the threshing machine was going round . |