Example sentences of "happening [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these people should be kept in touch with what is happening during the various stages of production . |
| 2 | If you can tell him what 's happening with the other players he 's happy because then he knows what there is to do . |
| 3 | Ian Donohue who helped to design the tour t-shirt said : ‘ We will be the first intake of graduates into industry in the 1993 and want to take a first-hand look at what 's happening with the single market . ’ |
| 4 | The minister 's answer in Parliament that the cost to the airlines of providing concessionary travel for airline employees would be nothing was exactly what in practice had been happening under the old law . |
| 5 | Murie says that this was also happening under the previous system : ‘ As the new subsidy scheme under the Housing Act 1980 had been operated to increase council rents ( which in 1982–3 accounted for a higher proportion of average earnings than at any time since 1945 ) , so exchequer subsidies have fallen ’ . |
| 6 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 7 | All of this was happening alongside the steady decline of the Luftwaffe which did not enjoy our operational tour scheme and rest periods . |
| 8 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 9 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |
| 10 | And yet these are the things that are happening within the private sector with DHSS funding to a large extent and the present planning provision , the present registration and monitoring arrangements do n't allow anyone to say " No , this is n't acceptable " |
| 11 | The Policyholder having made to the Corporation a written proposal and declaration which shall be the basis of this contract and having paid or agreed to pay on demand the premium stated in the Schedule the Corporation will provide insurance hereinafter contained in respect of events happening within the Territorial Limits or in the course of transit by sea or air ( including hovercraft ) between places within the Territorial Limits ( including processes of loading and unloading ) during the period of insurance stated in the Schedule or during any period for which the Corporation may accept payment for the renewal of this Policy . |
| 12 | The Policyholder having made to the Corporation a written proposal and declaration which shall be the basis of this contract and having paid or agreed to pay on demand the premium stated in the Schedule the Corporation will provide insurance hereinafter contained in respect of events happening within the Territorial Limits or in the course of transit by sea or air ( including hovercraft ) between places within the Territorial Limits ( including processes of loading and unloading ) during the period of insurance stated in the Schedule or during any period for which the Corporation may accept payment for the renewal of this Policy . |
| 13 | If not accounted for they could contaminate a specimen under study or be mistaken as an important signal of something happening within the experimental investigation , whereas they are actually part of the ‘ noise ’ — the ‘ background ’ . |
| 14 | There were a few people who allowed themselves to feel the pain of loss , the pain of betrayal , when they began to understand what had really been happening in the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Most people would have regarded what is happening in the Soviet Union as a matter of some importance , not a matter for the fourth-form behaviour that we see on the Opposition Benches . |
| 16 | from , from Coventry , what do you feel about what 's been happening in the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | In addition , Wycliffe could hear quite clearly what was happening in the outer office — the clacking of a typewriter , the girls exchanging scraps of conversation . |
| 18 | Through the use of repeated censuses and land surveys , through photographs and films , and through an intensive long-term study lasting now since 1969 , it will be possible to analyse some of the causes and consequences of what is happening in the mountainous eco-systems of the Himalayas . |
| 19 | Under Cause and Onset look at what has been happening in the preceding hours or days to the onset of the illness and consider the speed with which the illness came on and the order of events . |
| 20 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 21 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 22 | what is happening in the immediate surroundings when the word is produced . |
| 23 | What seems to be happening in the nineteenth century , in response to major social changes ( rapid industrialisation and urbanisation , the disruption of old class patterns and the rise of capitalist social relations , the development of new and sharp class conflicts with their related social and intellectual manifestations ) is a continuous battle over the definition of acceptable sexual behaviour within the context of changing class and power relations . |
| 24 | The reverse is happening in the eastern part of the Ocean . |
| 25 | We are deeply concerned by what is happening in the occupied territories and we are urging the Government of Israel to negotiate sensibly with the Palestinians within the occupied territories . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that even if one ignores what is happening in the former USSR , there are other countries in the world that are potential aggressors and which either have nuclear capacity or may be near to acquiring it ? |
| 27 | In other words we want to help local enthusiasts to keep in touch with what is happening in the wider world of railways . |
| 28 | AT THIS moment what was happening in the outside world , for a cultural climate is never separate from events ? |
| 29 | The job of perceptual systems is to provide us with representations of what is happening in the outside world , representations based on information gathered from receptors based in different parts of the body that are tuned to specific classes of physical events . |
| 30 | ‘ Where it 's weird , though , is the difficulty of getting a real fix on what 's happening in the outside world . |