Example sentences of "be [verb] on in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 2 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 3 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 4 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
| 5 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 6 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 7 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 8 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 9 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 10 | Royal , who looks like a bit he 's been carved out of rock , warned of what will happen if we follow in the wake of what 's been going on in the States . |
| 11 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 13 | So , from The Inheritors , we understand that certain things are going on in the fictional world . |
| 14 | Both processes are going on in the two locales , sometimes with a single agency carrying out both simultaneously . |
| 15 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
| 16 | What we were expecting and erm he wanted to know , to a large extent , how we felt about all the erm things that are going on in the parish . |
| 17 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 18 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 19 | The draft constitution , to be voted on in the April referendum , would reduce the legislature to a single , bicameral body ; specify the supremacy of federal law over that of constituent republics ; and retain the President as " head of state and the highest executive in Russia " . |
| 20 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 21 | What makes sense therefore , is to put the work organiser at either end of the binder , to build those up , so that pages where you really will be writing on in the binder , which are the diary pages will become elevated towards the middle of the rings , and make that much easier to write on . |
| 22 | All contain the same genes , although different genes will be turned on in the different specialist cells . |
| 23 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 24 | The answer to the last question is , of course , the so-called Standby Credit which is really a form of performance guarantee which will only be drawn on in the event of default by the party who has contracted to perform some service . |
| 25 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 26 | Genetic make-up , early childhood socialisation , class divisions and inequalities of opportunity are things which we either do not know how to change , or would involve a degree of social and economic transformation which is very unlikely to be embarked on in the name of reducing crime . |
| 27 | The shafts can be tied on in the case of very young children , especially during active play . |
| 28 | We can not assume that what the linguist identifies as significant should correspond with aspects of language to be focused on in the teaching and learning of a language as a school subject . |
| 29 | One was its involvement in politics in a direct sense which would be frowned on in the West . |
| 30 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |