Example sentences of "going [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block .
2 Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful .
3 Anyone who imagines that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer could , wholly independently , determine interest rates here without considering what was going on in a Europe with a single currency , with all the other member countries belonging to it , is totally wrong .
4 The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene .
5 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 .
6 They have the potential to bring together coherently all the different aspects of planning already going on in every school .
7 So sorting out what is going on in an ERP is like untangling a complex bundle of many different strands of similar wool with one hand tied behind the back .
8 Generally what is needed is far greater signalling of what is going on in an essay , and more explicit management of the material presented .
9 It seems that Jesus himself organised this last journey , from the borrowing of a donkey and its foal to the challenging protest against what was going on in the Temple courts .
10 ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them .
11 So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ?
12 The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape .
13 ‘ I know from other work going on in the south of Shetland that 10 per cent of the residents there remain concerned about the possibility of major long-term health effects , ’ he said .
14 But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland .
15 He walked around watching the instructors putting the men through their paces and , as on his last visit , seemed to take a particular interest in what was going on in the boxing ring .
16 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 .
17 Nenad Bucin , the representative for Montenegro and a strong supporter of the Serbian cause , similarly declared a boycott of the Collective State Presidency , stating that he could " not reconcile himself to the processes of deliberate disintegration " going on in the country .
18 This fight was going on in the middle of the road .
19 The eyes of some fish enable them to see not only what is going on in the water around them but in the air above the surface .
20 What is controversial about functionalism is its claim that we are going to be able to make significant generalizations about behaviour only if we think about what is going on in the brain at a particular level of description .
21 I have no quarrel with Searle 's claim that ‘ mental phenomena are caused by processes going on in the brain ’ .
22 The object of the research is to enable the organization to find out what is going on in the market-place , and to evaluate the impact on customers , competitors and others , of the organization 's own marketing activities .
23 There were all sorts of busy monkish things going on in the courtyard of the monastery of Saint Sacco Benedetto .
24 Well now , do they run a show and that racket 's going on in the entertainment club at the same time ?
25 There was nothing going on in the centre of .
26 ‘ 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 .
27 Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question .
28 What the hell was going on in the child 's mind .
29 Could you say a little bit more about the research going on in the Education Area ?
30 ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 .
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