Example sentences of "[noun sg] be going [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dad 's coming over here and he and Mum are going down to Cornwall . |
| 2 | Maybe , you know , finding out what people in Israel , for instance are going through . |
| 3 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 4 | The result is a sense that a great deal is going on , although how good all this writing is and , even more significantly , what the make-up of the new public and the social function of its reading are matters for debate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whereas if you go for a degree of inequality within the countryside , A you will have , you might get the same , same tax yield because you , you have a higher rate of tax on the rich and their revenue 's going up so that tax revenue will increase |
| 7 | If you imagine the blood 's going round and you 're trying to get you know |
| 8 | My mind is going round in circles . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to see how the search is going on . ’ |
| 10 | I shall want one of the senior staff in each department while the search is going on . |
| 11 | An early start is being made , in fact scaffolding is going up already . |
| 12 | Much research is going on to discover causes and treatment . |
| 13 | Garry 's going up there tonight . |
| 14 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 15 | They have n't decided yet whether my car is going up to his office or to fishing . |
| 16 | ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ? |
| 17 | And the Isle of Ely college is going out for a meal , so that wo n't be back , so he ca n't have that one , so we have n't got one ! |
| 18 | The Vulcan Bomber 's going out of operation , but this weekend it 's the main attraction at what 's being billed as Britain 's most spectacular air show . |
| 19 | The new National Criminal Intelligence Service , which will handle all known information on 25,000 top villains , said : ‘ Crime is going up and up and up . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Even today , when the tottering of a Goldcrest or TESE is taken as a sign that the film industry is going under , it 's assumed that big companies are the key to surviving in the film business , because that 's the way they do things in LA . |
| 22 | So the , the overall figure is going down , and this really reflects the way outbreaks have occurred , in that some areas have a lot early on , they 're dropping off . |
| 23 | ‘ That typewriter 's going back at once , ’ he said inadequately . |
| 24 | Buckinghamshire 's total book stock was going up by about forty thousand volumes a year , last year it grew just eight thousand . |
| 25 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 26 | Museums are part of an educational system , and part of the entertainment industry ; and the problem was particularly acute in scientific museums , where botanical and zoological research was going on . |
| 27 | He had a pet theory that if you went flashing your torch about on night duty , any of the burglars would see that the light was going on . |
| 28 | Unfortunately Sten could n't get back , the light was going down and our fearless pest controllers were left stranded . |
| 29 | However , reports said that NPFL fighters had only intensified their fire , and by the following day full-scale fighting was going on , with Nigerian jets , artillery and warships attacking rebel positions . |
| 30 | ‘ The farmers probably tried to get on with farming and making a living while all the fighting was going on , ’ said Hilary Wade . |