Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all to do with GCSE coursework and see how we 're getting on during the two weeks and we get experience for us when we leave school and go to work . |
| 2 | For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years . |
| 3 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 5 | A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force . |
| 6 | And then at the end we will run a single lecture , a kind of gee whizz lecture , something that shows the applications of the ideas we 've been working on during the day to some particularly unusual branch of physics . |