Example sentences of "happening [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 2 | It was happening only to a minority . |
| 3 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 4 | I know of anything that is happening down at the rear , I can tell you I have a very keen sense of smell . " |
| 5 | Each part of the company has been asked to look for ways of doing more , with less , and the performance improvements now happening all over the company are starting to feed through to the bottom line . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope that what is happening here is not happening all over the country . |
| 7 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 8 | That is happening all over the country and the tenants will be required to accept all the costs of repairs . |
| 9 | It 's happening all over the country — not just to me . |
| 10 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |
| 11 | Be aware of what is happening all over the world , but for goodness sake do n't allow the market — by which I mean the City — to guide the destiny of your company . |
| 12 | It 's been happening all over the world for quite some time . ’ |
| 13 | Not necessarily the but certainly from below the top it 's happening all over the world , it 's , it 's er upsetting everybody , they do n't know whether they 're coming or going . |
| 14 | Mr McGahon said : ‘ There is a high level of crime in this area , but it is a microcosm of what is happening all over the Republic . |
| 15 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 16 | We do n't just need closed circuit T V , we need lighting on all the Park and Ride sites , we need proper heated warm , clean waiting rooms , supervised with a person with a glass window , who can see what 's happening there , who has all the monitoring screens and can look at the closed circuit T V and what 's happening all round the car park . |
| 17 | Do you approve of these changes happening all around the edges of our towns , or should something different be done ? |
| 18 | Meantime , there was a lot happening just down the street to capture his attention , as troop after troop of soldiers passed through Frome on their way somewhere else : 300 of the Staffordshire Militia came in April of 1799 , replaced by an equal number of the same later in the month ; then the 300-strong Somerset Supplementary Militia arrived from Wells , complete with their own band , followed by the glorious Fifteenth Light Dragoons — ‘ It is supposed that these are the finest men and horses of any regiment in England ’ ; and the next year no fewer than nine hundred men of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons came at one go . |
| 19 | Whenever leading faces of stage and screen change their image drastically , it 's a heavy indication of what 's happening generally on the fashion scene . |
| 20 | For lack of information about what is happening elsewhere in the world , people record ‘ screendiaries ’ or ‘ mimic minimemoirs ’ ( 7 ) on their ‘ chatterscreen[s] ’ ( 127 ) . |
| 21 | Momentous things were also happening socially in the North-West of England following the highly successful venture by the local society in the opening of the first social club for the deaf in the country in 1878 at Manchester . |
| 22 | The investigation of anything happening directly on the river would normally be the responsibility of the River Police , at least until such time as it might lead to inquiries inland . |
| 23 | Right let's catch up with what 's been happening nationally on the football scene , and join Headley Feast . |
| 24 | Direct supporting of the learner-reader , by parent , non-specialist teacher , or librarian , can complement what is happening formally in the school . |
| 25 | We were concerned that er what 's happening now in the Gulf is n't a simple issue , and it needs to be dealt with very carefully . |
| 26 | The shop assistant 's attention was suddenly caught by something happening out on the road , in the passing traffic . |
| 27 | I often wonder if the rolling activity at such times is happening well below the surface ; so far below that there can be no visible signs of disturbance , even in calm water . |
| 28 | Instead , the oceanic plate , slid past the North American plate , much like what is happening today with the San Andreas fault . |
| 29 | What it means is what is happening today in the hearts of families and of the peoples ’ ( Vallejo : 1970 , p. 66 ) . |
| 30 | So much happening here at the moment as the ball was followed up by David he looked at the referee as er challenge him for the er shove inside the penalty area but the referee was unimpressed by that , Blackburn have already got one penalty here tonight from which they 've scored , Shrewsbury have scored from a penalty too and it 's the third division side still in the lead here by three goals to two . |