Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're part of a re-organisation which has been going on since the Nationwide merged with the Anglia Building Society five years ago . |
| 2 | Of course , the appropriate behaviour here depends on what is likely to be going on when no set of bindings seems plausible to the reasoner . |
| 3 | A long drawn-out sound would still be going on when the echo returned , and , even if partially muffled by send/receive muscles , would get in the way of detecting the echo . |
| 4 | And now the fat bellies in the cities are carrying on where the white folk left off . |
| 5 | When we have those results we will really be able to sort out what is going on when a golfer tries to hit that wee white ball . |
| 6 | Utilitarianism is a properly ethical theory , inasmuch as it puts forward the basics of a moral position , while emotivism belongs to what is sometimes called meta-ethics which professes to explain the nature of what is going on when an ethical or moral view is advocated . |
| 7 | If the Minister for Sport was on the Treasury Bench , I would ask him — instead , I ask all hon. Members and the country — what is going on when the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation puts his name and that of his organisation to a positive argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship in sport ? |
| 8 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |
| 9 | The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school . |
| 10 | Ken Tyson recreates the advanced projects that Japan was working on before the atomic bombs brought World War Two to a close . |