Example sentences of "[noun sg] of what is going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 2 | Steady improvement seems to depend on careful monitoring of what is going on by those involved combined with brief but efficient recording of what has been tried and tested . |
| 3 | We 've managed to avoid the use of overtime we have tried our best to ensure a decent supply of social housing but always against the odds , always against the tide of what is going on in our economy and in the housing situa in the housing market . |
| 4 | The therapist 's objective at the end of the assessment period is to be able to make an approximate formulation of what is going on , and to suggest a provisional treatment plan . |
| 5 | Here is a spoken description of what is going on in Figure 15 given by a patient with Broca 's aphasia ( from Funnell , 1983 ) : |
| 6 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 7 | ‘ The fire at Windsor was an allegory of what is going on in their lineage , in their family . |
| 8 | They guess at only the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in these firms . |
| 9 | In the reflection of what is going on out of bed , people with relatively well-integrated personalities find that their sexual intercourse over the years represents a variety of feelings and moods . |
| 10 | Half-heard rows may distress them more ; the fantasy of what is going on downstairs may well be worse than the reality . |
| 11 | KEYS : ‘ But it is not just a question of what is going on on the park , it 's what 's happening elsewhere that we 're beginning to hear and read about and that 's never been the case at Liverpool previously , ever . |
| 12 | The question of what is going on ‘ at ground level ’ is nonetheless interesting and potentially important because schools that have experience in evaluation have much to offer those who are just beginning to establish procedures . |
| 13 | Utilitarianism is a properly ethical theory , inasmuch as it puts forward the basics of a moral position , while emotivism belongs to what is sometimes called meta-ethics which professes to explain the nature of what is going on when an ethical or moral view is advocated . |
| 14 | The very choice by an observer of the disposition of these instruments is considered fundamental to the nature of what is going on , as we saw when we considered Bohr 's understanding of the EPR experiment ( p. 72 ) . |
| 15 | They are usually highly experienced in what they are doing and are unlikely to miss the truth of what is going on . |
| 16 | All of which is what the people who meet the star traveller would like him to believe , even though it represents a far from comprehensive picture of what is going on . |
| 17 | The model is his picture of what is going on outside him and it is essentially an hypothesis based on the available evidence . |
| 18 | Generally what is needed is far greater signalling of what is going on in an essay , and more explicit management of the material presented . |
| 19 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 20 | For politics and political reporting are not only concerned with set-piece events in the House of Commons but with the gossip , nuances and flavour of what is going on . |
| 21 | You may feel you are moving very slowly , but in fact you will simply be counteracting a nervous tendency to rush headlong into everything and to lose control of what is going on . |
| 22 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 23 | ‘ The clubs will bring more awareness of what is going on around them . |
| 24 | But equally well , of course , you may have a brilliant tactical win and through a failure to appreciate the strategic significance of what is going on , throw away the game . |
| 25 | The computer turns its interpretation of what is going on into a television picture — healthy tissue is coloured green , tumours show up red . |
| 26 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 27 | The really frightening aspect of what is going on is that the alternative to Mr Yeltsin would seem to be chaos involving a complete economic breakdown , from which only extremists could benefit and all of us would suffer . |
| 28 | A worthwhile person is always clear : she never loses her grasp on what is going on , gets confused , or is at a loss for an explanation , or at the very least a coherent understanding of what is going on . |
| 29 | This produces a statistical , or ‘ quantified ’ , account of what is going on , which can then be compared with other lessons and other teachers ( see also Content Analysis on p. 112 ) . |
| 30 | But that is the risk one runs when , as has been the case over the last ten years , one feels duty-bound to give an immediate account of what is going on , without distancing oneself sufficiently from the subject matter . |