Example sentences of "[v-ing] what is going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |
| 2 | ‘ Society in its silence is condoning what is going on . ’ |
| 3 | Some have their own lights for practising and stand out in their gardens to practise with an empty gun , not with shells otherwise half the police force in the district would come around wondering what is going on . |
| 4 | The word ‘ depression ’ is used in a non-clinical sense , and maybe sadness is a better way of describing what is going on . |
| 5 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 6 | Everybody seems to know everybody else and nobody can do anything without someone knowing what is going on . |
| 7 | She has a passion for knowing what is going on and will be extremely cross if she is n't told . ’ |
| 8 | It has to do with not knowing what is going on . |
| 9 | It has to do with not knowing what is going on |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the treatment sessions take place in a large gymnasium , for instance , the physiotherapist will screen off a section of the space for greater privacy , and so that the patient is not distracted by seeing what is going on around him . |
| 12 | Glaukos in his cerements seems to be watching what is going on ; Polyeidos to be striking at the snake ; but the living snake is shown at the bottom approaching the dead one . |
| 13 | Experience has shown that many real situations are lacking in mechanisms for monitoring what is going on , and taking the necessary control action when the required standards are n't being met . |