Example sentences of "see what is [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 2 | If you know how to read the ocean , it is like looking at the stars : you can see what is happening not only far away but also long ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Diana much prefers sitting in the body of the auditorium where she can see what is going on on stage . |
| 5 | Only if we put them into their context in the larger narrative , can we see what is going on and feel their full force . |
| 6 | He says that , ‘ DTX-2 , like its biogenetic relatives acts as an ‘ on-off ’ switch for certain phosphatase enzymes and could open a door in the cell for us to look inside and see what is going on ’ . |
| 7 | The foster parents remain unconcerned as their own eggs or nestlings follow each other to the ground , even when they can see what is going on . |
| 8 | ‘ But you make me so angry , ’ she said on a short laugh , ‘ when anyone with half a brain can see what is going on ! ’ |
| 9 | As the Minister does not deny that there are enough women from which to choose , would not a little concentration on that issue , and the provision of targets so that we can all see what is going on , be very welcome ? |
| 10 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
| 11 | Let the world see what is going on with these nasty people . ’ |
| 12 | for example , too much weaving and rolling of bodies on the floor is hardly visible from the stalls , whilst too much concentration on one side of the stage finds spectators on the same side craning their necks to see what is going on . |
| 13 | The drives that bind one person to another are primitive and intense , and can be disturbing to our normal perceptions if we allow ourselves to see what is going on . |
| 14 | If the adventurers want to see what is going on in the Black Pit , all they have to do is rap twice in rapid succession with the rod upon the rail . |
| 15 | I am very pleased to see what is going on in the coming year . |
| 16 | If the treatment sessions take place in a large gymnasium , for instance , the physiotherapist will screen off a section of the space for greater privacy , and so that the patient is not distracted by seeing what is going on around him . |
| 17 | Most people in America and Western Europe still see what is going on there — no farther away from this summer 's holidaymakers in Venice or Tyrol than Lyons is from Paris , or York from London — as a largely irrelevant struggle in an obscure corner of the world . |
| 18 | We always used to play the like you never see what is going on and never know the problems involved in being , that , that was what was good about the , the R A interview . |