Example sentences of "go on at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's where all the official entertaining goes on at the regatta — just to give you an idea of the scale of it , they 'll be putting away 50,000 pints of Pimm 's , 6,000 bottles of champagne and 3,000 pounds of strawbnerries . |
| 2 | I 've never been able to find out what goes on at the ceremony , but , from what I 've heard , there is more to it than rolling up your trouser-leg . |
| 3 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 4 | Power stations , oil refineries , dairy farms , newspapers , hospitals , simply have to go on at the weekend , and often through nights as well as days . |
| 5 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 6 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |
| 7 | There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely . |
| 8 | 1 What is going on at the beginning of the poem ? 2 What do you think has happened before the poem begins ? 3 Do you think the boys are afraid ? |
| 9 | So I always try to do that but I , I , again I find that it 's very erm very tiring and it 's very , gets very can get very involved with it , so I would like us , I 'd like you to think of the idea of a social secretary to help with the raffles and organizing what 's going on at the meetings please . |
| 10 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 11 | No it 's erm all the conversation that 's going on at the minute . |
| 12 | Wh what , what was actually going on at the tenants ' group then ? |
| 13 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 15 | ‘ And what if you live on the ground floor and you look up at what 's going on at the top ? |
| 16 | Should he ask him what was going on at the top of the Ministry and why they were resurrecting the Zoser case ? |
| 17 | The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay . . . |
| 18 | Work at Liss pond , for instance , was going on at the moment to cut back overhanging trees which were starving the water of oxygen . |
| 19 | As newspapers claimed the princess was undertaking the visit against her will , a Palace spokesman said : ‘ We have no intention of dignifying any of this speculation going on at the moment by making any comment . ’ |
| 20 | This is very much in demand , with so many credit card thefts going on at the moment . " |
| 21 | There 's a number-plate racket going on at the moment . |
| 22 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 23 | The unions are presently consulting the membership as to how we should respond to this and that process is going on at the moment inside G M B the difficulty of course being the low level of organization . |
| 24 | ‘ Connected with what 's going on at the moment ? ’ |
| 25 | That 's the sort of thing that 's going on at the moment . |
| 26 | There 's a lot of brinkmanship going on at the moment , a lot of er , horse-trading I dare say , going on as well . |
| 27 | Er , er , er , government of what 's going on at the moment |
| 28 | So what is going on at the moment that is affecting the management and organisation of our electronic records in local government ? |
| 29 | As you know doubt are aware of the importance that it is to us in that area of the and the current enquiry that 's going on at the moment . |
| 30 | I think there 's a very interesting as well as the , I mean the tragedy that we know of Bosnia Hercegovina , there 's a very complex business going on at the moment about the handling of an international situation . |