Example sentences of "happening [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What 's happening about the car ?
2 Or else she turns to him in the middle of dinner and asks : ‘ What 's happening about the Matterhorn , Howard ?
3 Constantly monitoring the system to ensure that people know what is happening during the change , understand their roles in the process , and comprehend the total effort rather than only isolated elements of it .
4 This very substantial amount of information enables the investigator to have a comprehensive appreciation of what is happening during the flight .
5 Do you remember anything happening during the war down the docks ?
6 What was therefore happening during the period reviewed by Bacon and Eltis was that British capital was being invested either abroad , where profit returns were higher and easier to achieve , or in finance companies in this country where again profitability was higher than in industry .
7 Indeed one of this form of revisionism 's characteristic positions is to stress localised events happening as a result of localised pressures rather than as responses to larger national happenings or , especially , to articulated ideological movements .
8 I know that he feels great distress at what is happening as a result of Government inaction on this matter .
9 At certain points in the tale he stops and takes what is happening as the starting-point for a wander along lanes of quasi-anthropological speculation about the problems of the American male ( and , by extension , of ‘ civilised ’ men everywhere ) .
10 ‘ We can scarcely do any better in terms of results we 're winning regularly , we 're second in the League , still in the Cup … but given what 's happening off the pitch , it 's a bloody miracle we 're not bottom . ’
11 United are having a difficult season , and there is antagonism towards the club because of what is happening off the pitch .
12 We can break into small groups and look at what 's happening throughout the castle .
13 The crisis taking place in Brazil is happening throughout the world 's rainforests .
14 Only the right hon. Gentleman believes that we can be insulated from what is happening throughout the world .
15 All this is happening against a background of spending cuts imposed by local authorities upon their colleges so that the growth in demand has not been matched by an increase of the capacity of the further education system in Wales to meet this demand .
16 All this is happening against the background of a worldwide accumulation of civilian plutonium .
17 Analysing the current is more difficult because what you see on the surface may be very different from what is happening near the river bed .
18 Something was happening amongst the youth movement that so admired him and he could n't quite put his finger on it .
19 He advised them to keep in touch with their children , because they can never be sure what 's happening beneath the surface .
20 Things on a landfill site happen very quickly and it 's vital both for safety reasons and for effective management control to have immediate knowledge of what 's happening beneath the ground .
21 This is a very brief overview of some of the aspects of Homoeopathy and a view of the world which may help to shed a little light on what is happening with a person 's health .
22 Right great and what happens what seems to be happening with a base and an acid or an acid and a base ?
23 ‘ Let me outline what 's happening with the firm at present and you can begin to gather your thoughts . ’
24 And that 's what 's happening with the council you see .
25 He said yesterday : ‘ I wo n't decide anything until I get Newcastle 's offer and also see what 's happening with the boss . ’
26 So what 's what 's happening with the chlorine then ?
27 I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts .
28 I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling .
29 Are you now confident about placing your faith in the adjustments that are happening with the economy ?
30 Crosby said : ‘ If I worry about what 's happening up the road , I 'll lose track of what we are doing here .
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