Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] what is going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am devastated by what is going on — I have not got much time left and I want to spend it here , ’ said Gladys , who got the Queen 's Medal for her work with the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service . |
| 2 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not going to talk about what is going on in Standing Committee . |
| 3 | ‘ Unless something is done about what is going on and a stop is put to the chaos , then the health-care prospects for London are very gloomy . ’ |
| 4 | This demands that one or both adults regularly move out of role in order to reflect on what is going on . |
| 5 | Theatre invites you to give your full attention to what is happening on stage — the theatrical experience is a very concentrated one and you as a member of the audience are vitally connected to what is going on . |
| 6 | On the other hand , while it is impossible to keep values out of research , the more you let your own values and feelings ‘ take over ’ , the more you will write about your own values and reactions , and the less you will see of what is going on around you . |
| 7 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 8 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 9 | That was fun , compared to what is going on now at the NEA . |
| 10 | On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver . |
| 11 | In the first place one tries to get some feel for what is going on . |
| 12 | Structure helps the viewers relate to what is going on ; without it , they are lost in what amounts to a succession of unrelated snap-shots . |
| 13 | The idea of patients ' rights sounds excellent but , having read the press and listened to what is going on , I suspect that the idea promises much but will deliver little . |
| 14 | But I would want a constant dialogue , through various means of communication , to learn about what is going on throughout the whole constituency . |
| 15 | Now I feel I must write about what is going on at Everton FC . |
| 16 | What is controversial about functionalism is its claim that we are going to be able to make significant generalizations about behaviour only if we think about what is going on in the brain at a particular level of description . |
| 17 | ‘ The problem for people at the USTA and the LTA is that they are too far removed from what is going on in tennis to know what is really required , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Skills analysis is an attempt to get at what is going on in the operator 's mind . |
| 19 | The range of the job varies from agency to agency , but basically it involves : progress chasing , making sure that jobs are taken through their various stages on time ; production , making sure that jobs go to and from studios and publications in the appropriate form , and the appropriate sizes and shapes ; and record-keeping , ensuring that a record is kept of what is going on on each account and every job done for that account . |
| 20 | Also , as compared with a shot in which the subject traverses the picture directly from one side to the other , the diagonal movement gives the eye longer in which to take in what is going on and it reduces the need to pan the camera to follow the subject . |
| 21 | On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver . |