Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] on in " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there ca n't be much going on in Thirsk and Leyburn . |
| 2 | Meetings were still going on in Manchester in a last-minute attempt to avoid today 's scheduled hearing in the High Court . |
| 3 | The attempt to understand and to find suitable words for these different types of property is one that is still going on in anthropology and is proving extremely difficult [ Goodenough , 1951 ; Goody , 1962 ; Gluckman , 1965 ; Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 4 | No more coniferous planting is occurring in northern England , but is still going on in Scotland and Wales . |
| 5 | Montrose House would of course not be the only cost-effective alternative but it does give some idea of the scandalous waste of resources which is still going on in the semi-State sector . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Work is still going on in fitting out a new store right up to the last minute . |
| 8 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 9 | In the two months before he assumes power , Clinton must familiarise himself with what is really going on in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | It 's wonderful , is n't it , when trades have trade papers that can help them understand what is really going on in the world . |
| 11 | Make sure they know what 's really going on in your mind , and what your objectives are . |
| 12 | I do n't believe that you have any idea of what 's really going on in a country or culture until you live there . |
| 13 | My project was a reasonable attempt to find out what 's really going on in those two hospitals . |
| 14 | Thereafter it 's no more than a recurrent talking-point or a way of talking down , with all this I do n't feel I really know you and What 's really going on in there ? and Show me the real you . |
| 15 | This day I was motored over to Burghclere to see Stanley Spencer 's mural paintings which he is now working on in the Memorial Chapel built for the plans of the pictures he has in mind . |
| 16 | This is now going on in accounts departments throughout the country and we aim to drive the level of the problem right down . ’ |
| 17 | Ways must therefore be found to see whether things are actually improving : this will involve monitoring ( ie gathering a whole range of information and evidence as to what is actually going on in schools and evaluation ( ie the interpretation and critical judgement of that information ) . |
| 18 | Whether the Government are Labour or Conservative , the inspector ought to have the right to comment , on , for instance , funding and on what is currently going on in the Prime Minister 's county of Cambridgeshire , where there have been some very severe reductions . |
| 19 | Adam what 's actually going on in that last the one these two have just read ? |
| 20 | You 'll be given a fistful of them and the one that is set for you should be the first one that you do , but then the groups should pick something which is as far as possible relevant to what 's actually going on in your profession at the moment . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 23 | The Persians had been driven from Greece not many years before the temple was begun , and the fight to free Greeks from them was still going on in the east . |
| 24 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 25 | I wish there was a abetter metaphor , but like Pink Floyd we could have made music about what was really going on in my head and messed around with what being a pop star was all about . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ When did you ever tell me what was really going on in your head ? |
| 27 | The radio claimed losses by government forces in the north-west , and said that fighting was now going on in five areas , mainly in Amharic-speaking central , north and north-west Ethiopia , as well as in the south and in the Ogaden area of the south-east . |
| 28 | A feature of the in-service programme at Codsall Comprehensive School , for instance , was a guided tour of the school , the Director of Resources showing teachers what was actually going on in other departments . |
| 29 | The mismatch between a head 's espoused values and what was actually going on in the classroom could be startling — and indeed is a recurrent theme in several of our interim reports , notably 10 and 11 . |