Example sentences of "be going on in [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Subsequent work by David Foulkes and others , showed that the very striking differences between experience during REM bursts and REM quiescence was not as great when subjects were questioned at any length , rather than being allowed to make spontaneous reports of what had been going on in their minds . |
2 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
3 | Listen , too much has been going on in my head of late . |
4 | ‘ Has something been going on in my kitchen ? |
5 | Can anyone give me a brief update on what exactly has been going on in my absence , i.e. who is being sold and why ? |
6 | He was uneasy about what had been going on in his absence , which had lasted for some months . |
7 | She was going her own sweet way , totally unconcerned about what might be going on in her wake . |
8 | But one of the most persistent and pernicious myths we 've inherited from Descartes is that mentality is essentially conscious , so that anything we ca n't introspect ca n't really be going on in our mind . |
9 | I was n't allowing myself to think too much , but below the conscious level all kinds of adjustments were going on in my head . |
10 | The reasons for this appear to be ( a ) what the students perceive as cashable cheques in the job market and ( b ) a genuine intellectual concern to understand what is going on in their society . |
11 | She loves talking to people , and keeping in touch with what is going on in their lives . |
12 | For many people , some sexual failure , temporary or otherwise , is made worse by the immense current cultural emphasis on passionate sex being the ‘ be all and end all ’ , with the implication of failure if they are not easily roused to orgasm regardless of what else is going on in their lives . |
13 | ‘ The fire at Windsor was an allegory of what is going on in their lineage , in their family . |
14 | The role of the regionals is not only to report national and international news if they are a daily , but to reflect what is going on in their area . |
15 | They will be asked to relate their seminar work to what is going on in their practice schools . |
16 | Venetian blinds of furrows ripple down his forehead as his every external body activities mirror all that is going on in his head . |
17 | The first is to provide simple descriptions of complex data so that we can understand what is going on in our experiments . |
18 | Thank you very much Mr President and as you 've been friendly enough to invite me and given me such a friendly welcome , I , I thought I ought to risk speaking to you as candidly as I can about what is going on in our country and our communities at the moment and whether by the end of the thing I continue your friend is another matter . |
19 | And yet , since at least the time of Hegel and Marx , we have been increasingly aware that , as Enzensberger 's paraphrase of Marx has it , " What is going on in our minds has always been , and will always be a product of society " . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | So , too , does wearing sunglasses as this is a positive gesture to prevent the interviewer from seeing your eyes and guessing what is going on in your mind . |
22 | Please contact your nearest regional office to find out what is going on in your area . |
23 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
24 | So it gives me a very good guide as to what 's going on in their minds when they are going through a process . |
25 | The danger of approaching whole group work by letting children first improvise in small groups and then presenting them with an issue which you hope will give them a focus is that they remain more interested in what 's going on in their group than in the supposedly unifying issue : " Why should I be interested in the corner shop being knocked down when I never use it , and anyway we 've just been burgled ? ! " |
26 | or you ca n't have a lunch break , but she did n't , she just automatically assumes that everybody knows what 's going on in her head be that everybody else should know as well , yeah anyway I 've got to go Matt 's shouting , he 's obviously having problems plumbing the dishwasher , god his little cotton socks , so we 'll see you later , alright then , see you later on ta ta . |
27 | I ca n't tell you what 's going on in my head . |
28 | In that sense , the shots are more about what 's going on in my head than in theirs . ’ |
29 | If they could have only known what 's going on in my head . |
30 | ‘ Are you going to stop sitting there like some goddammed statue and fill me in on what 's going on in your head ? ’ |