Example sentences of "going [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They keep on going on in the negative sense and the bulldozing here , has got you digging a big hole , and you eventually fall into it . |
| 2 | This is precisely the limitation of state-centrist approaches and why all analyses that begin and end with nation-states have such difficulty in finding explanations of what is going on in the global system . |
| 3 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 4 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 5 | Customers , or suppliers , or competitors , or even what is going on in the outside world , seem of far less importance than the endless struggle to achieve and operate the perfect bureaucracy . |
| 6 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 7 | If the adventurers want to see what is going on in the Black Pit , all they have to do is rap twice in rapid succession with the rod upon the rail . |
| 8 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 9 | Both processes are going on in the two locales , sometimes with a single agency carrying out both simultaneously . |
| 10 | It 's very helpful for both sides of the community , I 'm sure , to have contact like this and I think that the programme is usually very well devised in that you do have something either of mutual interest or one area and then the other area so that we can be informed about erm what 's going on in the other section of the community . |
| 11 | there is some change going on in the rural economy and perhaps he does want to interpret it as er a revolution which the communists can actually get involved in so he 's writing his paper and saying look , this is happening it may not be a rel revolution , but it |
| 12 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You should see the party going on in the forward dome car . |
| 15 | ‘ In a strict Party sense this was all bourgeois individualism and bohemianism , to me it was infinitely more attractive than anything going on in the Communist Party , particularly the student Communist Party , which was largely in-fighting and sectarian politics . |
| 16 | So , from The Inheritors , we understand that certain things are going on in the fictional world . |
| 17 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 18 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 19 | The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East immediately tried to suppress that , and that is indicative of the battle that is going on in the Labour party — It was said by the Leader of the Opposition himself . |
| 20 | The other programme was the field theory initiated by Faraday , according to which electrical phenomena can be explained in terms of actions going on in the medium surrounding electrified bodies and electric circuits , rather than in terms of the behaviour of a substance within them . |
| 21 | Taipei itself looked beautiful from the high balcony on which she and Florian stood , by night a glittering bowl from which the hum and roar of its mind-numbing traffic rose to compete with the sounds of the party going on in the large room behind them . |
| 22 | She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal . |
| 23 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 24 | The industrial paradigm has been based on the idea that the purpose of life is the satisfaction of our physical needs ( including our intellectual need to understand what is going on in the physical universe ) . |
| 25 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 26 | There was even the same poker game going on in the back room , a game I could n't get in on but which I could glimpse every time the same barmaid took refills through . |
| 27 | of CCA comments , ‘ I do not think that this experiment is going to substitute and take the place of several experiments going on in the Third World . |
| 28 | What is going on in the Royal Family ? |
| 29 | They , I think like everybody else were succumbed to the fact that readers do like to know what 's going on in the Royal Family . |
| 30 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |