Example sentences of "going on in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Annesley said his senior officers were ‘ rigorously assisting ’ Mr Stevens , while Mr Brooke said the investigation was going on in a ‘ thoroughly effective ’ way . |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock 's voice was choked with emotion as , refusing to concede defeat , he said : ‘ Even now as the recounts are going on in a very large number of seats the results of this election is not decided . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | How do people arrive at conclusions about what is going on in a particular instance ? |
| 6 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 7 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On May 8 Sami Abdul-Rahman , a member of the delegation [ see p. 38127 ] , said that " the talks [ were ] going on in a positive spirit " , although questions relating to international guarantees for an accord and Kurdish control over the oil-producing town of Kirkuk remained unresolved . |
| 10 | Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful . |
| 11 | But the real fun is going on in a nearby barn with pumpkin lanterns . |