Example sentences of "[v-ing] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like eavesdropping at a match , though such ‘ alternative ’ humour is very rare . |
| 2 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 3 | In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England … |
| 4 | With the coarse fishing season opening at a minute past midnight tonight June 16 anglers all over the region will be itching to get to their favourite waters . |
| 5 | But few critics are laughing at a time when ex-Klansman David Duke is able seriously to contend the governorship of Louisiana . |
| 6 | ‘ Lady Agnes told me , laughing at a virgin pretending to be pregnant ! ’ |
| 7 | THE Princess of Wales arrived smiling and laughing at a Christmas concert last night . |
| 8 | ‘ And I could n't see , so we could n't do any more the things we used to — just little things , like watching the sunset , or laughing at a holopic when we turned out the lights in bed , or me reading a poem to her . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll fall by the wayside , ’ said Hugh , laughing at a vehemence he could well understand . |
| 10 | A faint smile crossed Lancaster 's face , as though he was laughing at a cruel joke in dubious taste . |
| 11 | ‘ Fancy laughing at a woman in that condition ! ’ |
| 12 | MPs may be worked up over tonight 's vote , but Merseyside 's comedians in gyms , golf courses and top hotels whiled away the day laughing at a brave new Europe full of German humour , Italian efficiency and French bathing habits . |
| 13 | The sort of rebounding abuse , the trickster tricked , the reader ( ironically ) laughing at an image he does not realize is his own , that she describes , is indeed a pattern that is found in some fabliaux . |
| 14 | In a study undertaken over a two-week period , Tom Tadecki , research director of the International Coalition Against Violent Entertainment , found that more than 33 per cent of its programmes involved some form of aggression , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 10 per hour . |
| 15 | The figures for BBC 1 and BBC 2 were 10 per cent , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 2.5 per hour on BBC 1 , and two on BBC 2 . |
| 16 | An electric shock US , for instance , is an event occurring at a particular time , with a certain duration and intensity , that impinges on a particular part of the animal , and so on . |
| 17 | Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell . |
| 18 | All of the world 's savannas have been affected by human activity and , as Table 7.2 shows , deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate due to agricultural development and fuelwood collection . |
| 19 | Deforestation is , however , occurring at a much more rapid rate than afforestation . |
| 20 | General ‘ political economy ’ explanations must be correct in locating such developments within complex shifts in the production process , industrial infrastructure , and labour force requirements occurring at a particular stage of advanced industrialization — though much work needs to be done to define these shifts more precisely . |
| 21 | The reason for this is to prevent additional symptoms occurring at a time when you might be suffering from PMT . |
| 22 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 23 | Moreover , this is occurring at a time when few resources are available to enable them to deal with increased numbers . |
| 24 | It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate . |
| 25 | For Iraq , the effect had been particularly severe , occurring at a time when the country was suffering a financial crisis as a result of having fought a war against Iran on behalf of all Arabs . |
| 26 | The second measure of objective risk is that used by Watts and Quimby ( 1980 ) , the total number of accidents occurring at a junction divided by the average traffic flow at the junction . |
| 27 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 28 | Lown and Wolf classified ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of less than one per minute as isolated and of little prognostic significance , whereas those occurring at a rate of more than one per minute were more indicative of an unfavourable prognosis . |
| 29 | Lown and Wolf classified ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of less than one per minute as isolated and of little prognostic significance , whereas those occurring at a rate of more than one per minute were more indicative of an unfavourable prognosis . |
| 30 | Other electrocardiographic abnormalities , in addition to ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of more than 1/min , regarded as of ‘ sinister ’ importance — that is , markers of potentially serious complications are , ST segment increase or depression of more than 1 mm , supraventricular tachycardia ( three or more consecutive supraventricular extrasystoles at a rate of more than 130/min ) , second or third degree heart block , ventricular bigemini or trigemini , ventricular tachycardia , ventricular fibrillation or asystole . |