Sentence examples for preparations going on from inspiring English sources

The suspicion is, however, that the painting originally depicted a corpse-washing - that the woman in the centre was a naked corpse, and the preparations going on around her were for her funeral - and that it was doctored after Courbet's death.

Sure, for months there have been preparations going on: seemingly endless infrastructure construction, the unremarkable-in-every-way New Orleans airport getting a much-needed revamping, new minimum standards for taxi cabs being instituted, etc.

Still more of them gathered round in an audience, stuck to the walls, crowding the shelves, perched on the lintel, all of them muttering opinions as the preparations went on — they would have baked, not seared, that fish, and salted the cabbage but not the asparagus, and chosen caramel over fudge for the cake.

"There's huge preparation going on for that so I guess our resources need to be concentrated on making sure its a wonderful success for the city".

Other quiet preparations were going on in homes, where laptops and other computer hookups might make commuting unnecessary for some.

While this overt military preparation was going on, covert stay-behind arrangements initially made by the Western European Union to continue resistance after a successful Soviet invasion, including Operation Gladio, were transferred to NATO control.

As preparation for demonstrations was going on, the government imposed Section 144 in Dhaka, thereby banning any gatherings of more than three people.

Even though preparations for the sale have been going on for well over a year, its completion has been held up for months by railway unions opposed to the whole concept of privatisation.

Regarding faculty members' preparation, majority of them agreed that there was no preparation and even most of them did not know what was going on: "For me there were no proper preparations.

There's a mania going on, and people consume themselves with preparations".

Learning about what's going on in the world, and how others are impacted, sounds like perfect preparation for college.