Example sentences of "is going [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So in reality our S S A is going up about one and a half percent , and as you know our budget has gone up about one and a half percent , so why is the council tax going up six point three percent ?
2 POLICE pay is going up by 6.5 per cent — well above the inflation rate — under a deal confirmed last night by Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke .
3 President Ibrahim Babangida is going ahead with two days of talks with Mr de Klerk despite the refusal of the African National Congress to support the meeting .
4 It takes science to come along and tell us that what is going on under these circumstances is a brain process , let alone to tell us which brain process it is .
5 An extensive art exhibition is going on through much of the region giving local talent a showing .
6 But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child .
7 But then , I do n't like much of what is going on at all .
8 knows what is going on at all times within the department ;
9 Where this factor-augmenting technical progress is going on at constant exponential rates , the production function may be written ( 8–15 ) where K denotes the rate of capital augmentation and the rate of labour augmentation .
10 But these caricatures do not tell us much about what is going on with real , complex individuals behind the scenes .
11 Let the world see what is going on with these nasty people . ’
12 He affects a certain disinterest in theory , preferring extremely precise experiments that will pick up whatever is going on to those designed with a particular new discovery in mind .
13 The range of the job varies from agency to agency , but basically it involves : progress chasing , making sure that jobs are taken through their various stages on time ; production , making sure that jobs go to and from studios and publications in the appropriate form , and the appropriate sizes and shapes ; and record-keeping , ensuring that a record is kept of what is going on on each account and every job done for that account .
14 Once it is understood that the symptoms of disease are actually a good thing in that they are the highly characteristic outward indication of the healing and balancing process that is going on inside each individual person , then to give a medicine that is capable of mimicking and bringing about that same process suddenly seems to be a good idea ; both totally reasonable and logical .
15 Steady improvement seems to depend on careful monitoring of what is going on by those involved combined with brief but efficient recording of what has been tried and tested .
16 Much research along these lines is going on in various parts of the world ; the quantum Hall effect is an offshoot that derives from curiosity about the effects of a strong magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plane of the two-dimensional system .
17 To understand what is going on in physiological psychology one needs to know what these assumptions are .
18 ‘ No , I damn well do n't know what the hell is going on in that pretty little head of yours , but I 'm fast losing patience .
19 Friends tell one another just about everything that is going on in each other 's lives …
20 That is a quite legitimate interest , but surely what is going on in other parts of the country should be of interest to all of us .
21 In general , it can often be difficult for us to be sure just what is going on in supposed examples of communication .
22 What else is going on in this person 's life at the moment that might make your intervention ‘ the last straw ’ ; for example , family illness , death , anniversaries of death , separation or divorce , loss of job , being accused of abuse of some sort ?
23 A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there .
24 Scottish Office Ministers are extremely selective about when we are operating in a unitary Parliament with unitary interests and when we are operating as a small segment of the United Kingdom when that segment is not supposed to know what is going on in another .
25 I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here .
26 They guess at only the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in these firms .
27 Now I believe it 's the duty of the G M B and the trade union movement to first publicize the problem then we need a campaign and a strategy to avoid it , and that is going back to decent pension funds .
28 Since the major component of auditors ' costs — the salaries bill — is going down in many firms , it is not unnatural that the audit fees themselves are also reducing .
29 And if they say well , we want erm seventy five different locations served with crisps stands by ten o'clock tomorrow because our advert is going out on national T V tomorrow can we do it ?
30 Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control .
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