Example sentences of "be [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the Globigerina ooze on the floor of the Indian Ocean seems to be accumulating at between a and I centimetre per thousand years . |
| 2 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 3 | Would the situation improve with the fitting of 205 radials on new rims , as I 'm sure the present ‘ thin ’ rubber ca n't be helping at all . |
| 4 | Maggie 's temper and training did n't seem to be helping at all at the moment . |
| 5 | Two weeks after the premature birth of her fourth child , Eleanor Adams-Robinson , Britain 's finest female , ultra-runner , is back on the road and expects to be competing at the European 100K Championships in Holland in September . |
| 6 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |
| 7 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 8 | It must therefore be recognised that the greatest protagonist of deregulation are largely acting out of self-interest , and that they themselves demonstrate remarkable inconsistency and reversals in their arguments — depending on which area of that self interest they may be pursuing at any particular moment . |
| 9 | Teddy Bears will be gathering at Didcot Railway Centre on Sunday , July 12 for the Teddy Bears Picnic . |
| 10 | Other travellers are reported to be gathering at Clee Hill in Shropshire . |
| 11 | Fibre helps you slim ; and we should be eating at least 30 grams a day of it . |
| 12 | ‘ Faye and Bill will be eating at the hospital , but I imagine Belinda will want lunch once the room is ready . |
| 13 | wo n't even be eating at the Chinese . |
| 14 | I know one thing I 'll not be eating at the buffet . |
| 15 | Today I should be preaching at half-past two , and here I am ! |
| 16 | Mrs Jean Vince ( 29 ) was said to be recovering at St James 's Hospital , Leeds and husband Jan ( 36 ) ‘ has n't touched base ’ since the five girls and a boy were all born healthy , weighing between 2lb 12oz and 1lb 6oz . |
| 17 | And there 's the paradox not least because he will be singing at Liverpool 's Paradox Club tonight . |
| 18 | The marble block was then set into the wall of the family tomb , so the occupants appeared to be gazing at passers-by as if from a window . |
| 19 | There was a slow sensuous laziness to his movements contradicted by the dangerously hard angles of his face , the flashing darkness of his eyes which no matter how covertly she looked at him seemed to be gazing at her . |
| 20 | However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ . |
| 21 | CLACTON knew they would be struggling at the weigh-in when they entertained Felixstowe in the first round of the Turner Cup and Inter Club Trophy . |
| 22 | it 's got to pay off , because he wo n't be struggling at the end of this year to be trying to read and write , he will of achieved that |
| 23 | A colliery manager who is actually planning and investing was asked how many pits would be producing at 130p per gigajoule . |
| 24 | This whole idea of a subsistence economy is something I 'm not really , I 'm not really sure about it because erm what , what would exactly , you 're saying that if everybody was the same then erm then you 're somehow necessarily going to be producing at a subsistence level so erm so er and so it 's , so if you can only extract surplus by effectively taking it off something given to others . |
| 25 | He and two other award-winning chefs from Trinidad and St Lucia will be cooking at the hotel during Caribbean Food Festival . |
| 26 | Some of chef/owner Melvin Rhodes ' recipes are included in the Les Routiers Cook Book and he will be cooking at least one of these for the lunch . |
| 27 | No longer is it any use making a note in your diary at home about the meal you 'll be enjoying at a friend 's on Wednesday night . |
| 28 | The pattern of an evening meeting might be assembling at , say , 1830 with a view to the event concluding with drinks and/or coffee and sandwiches around 2030 . |
| 29 | The mixture of cheap jokes and pretentious philosophising becomes increasingly hard to stomach , however , and there are far too many moments when it is not clear whether you are supposed to be laughing at the characters or taking them seriously . |
| 30 | ‘ No one will be laughing at you ! ’ |