Example sentences of "going on [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But already more is going on than first appears . |
| 2 | There 's more going on than just the Cretaceous collapse . |
| 3 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 4 | But with a trio there 's the space for the dynamics , and you can be much quicker to react to what 's going on than , say , The Beautiful South or somethin' — like where there 's nineteen people and they all look like they 're playing off charts … ’ |
| 5 | And suddenly I realised that there was a whole lot more going on than I 'd even thought of . |
| 6 | So it 's just not true that we know less about what 's going on than we know about our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 7 | As always there is much more going on than its seems , and some bright new star of the genre is likely to emerge out of nowhere . |
| 8 | On his first day , Monday , 1 February , Terry arrived at the building — which was recently opened by Sir Ralph Robins , chairman of Rolls-Royce plc — to find there was more going on than a usual day 's work ; they were cleaning up in the aftermath of a fire . |
| 9 | It was always better to know what was going on than to lie in bed with the door shut and wonder what was happening . |
| 10 | Suddenly , and perhaps for the first time , Shirley Brown felt a twinge of affection for the lonely little woman who seemed far more aware of what was going on than any of them . |
| 11 | Of course , an intentional consequence of any effective training programme should be to permeate ideas and attitudes throughout the working environment via the ‘ day-to-day training which is always going on whether we specifically plan it or not ’ , not least of all to counteract existing erroneous ideas and/or unwelcome attitudes . |
| 12 | I think it 's absolute madness it 's a legal minefield and it 's an extraordinary way of going on whether you 're for hunting or not . |