Example sentences of "[adv] be going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 2 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 3 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 4 | An ex-Portsmouth Polytechnic student who was told by her economics tutor that ‘ all girls who get through are going on to do shorthand and typing in the evening ’ . |
| 5 | This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on . |
| 6 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 7 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 8 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 9 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 10 | But , you know , they 're just being going on as if they are i in a position to grant |
| 11 | Much science , however , is well-established , and some philosophers like Hegel have been most interested in this established part rather than in the frontier where conjecture , refutation and research generally is going on . |
| 12 | ‘ I wondered what exactly was going on when I found I could n't get into my own garage because of a great red car parked in the way . ’ |
| 13 | The global data structure , the Chart , would provide an easily accessible record of what exactly was going on between the different components . |
| 14 | The sample list of books is equally important , for it disarms criticisms of the kind : ‘ The books involved are obsolete and the shelf space is needed for more modern colourful illustrated books ’ , or ‘ Things like this have always been going on ’ , or ‘ We only get rid of popular novels when the rush is over ’ . |
| 15 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 16 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 17 | A long drawn-out sound would still be going on when the echo returned , and , even if partially muffled by send/receive muscles , would get in the way of detecting the echo . |
| 18 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 19 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 20 | It grew up as a series of local conventions , through people responding to one another 's behaviour ; the individual soldiers were probably hardly aware that the growing up was going on . |
| 21 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 22 | ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’ |
| 23 | Online catalogue research at the Polytechnic of Central London ( PCL ) has now been going on , mainly funded by the British Library Research and Development Department , for about five years . |
| 24 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Yet , somehow , because the mind of another creature is such alien territory to us , we find it difficult to accept that such mental activity and subjective sensory awareness , really is going on . |
| 27 | She said , ‘ Well , it wo n't be going on for much longer . |
| 28 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 29 | Finally she solved the problem by agreeing to let Ted do it provided none of us told Mum and as long as Ted gave Jean a full report at the end of each day on what precisely was going on between Dad and Eva . |
| 30 | The history specialists in the secondary school for the area may also be able to offer advice , especially as pupils from the catchment area will ultimately be going on to the secondary school . |