Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 2 | He was cut short by a loud knocking at the front door . |
| 3 | Merely looking at the final stage of supply can obscure the full range of options open to a particular firm in its choice of serving foreign markets . |
| 4 | One of the most important areas of credit management is risk assessment , not only looking at the individual customer companies concerned , but also at the current financial background in which they operate . |
| 5 | It should be a condition , for anyone thinking about development to resist trying to infer how a structure develops by only looking at the final result . |
| 6 | John Heminges said they were dark , cruel plays , and that Will was only looking at the black side of people . |
| 7 | She had very nearly done a cordon bleu cookery course after she had left school , only deciding at the last minute to reinvest her time and money in the boutique instead . |
| 8 | ‘ But in these hard times , cars are only selling at the right price . |
| 9 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 10 | For the rest , Friday turned out to be a bad day at Blackrock with Graham losing twice and McHugh and the Clarendon triple skipped by Mark Shannon all falling at the first hurdle . |
| 11 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 12 | We have seen already that the small heads of some dinosaurs with elongated torsos were no doubt a built-in safety factor against crippling head injuries , while naturally restricting at the same time the development of intelligence . |
| 13 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 14 | All you 've got to do is concentrate on getting out quick and running your own thing , not looking at the next guy . |
| 15 | And Tory arguments that the tax would make companies uncompetitive were not looking at the whole picture . |
| 16 | Katherine nodded fractionally , and the butler bowed and moved silently from the room , not looking at the younger man . |
| 17 | Norway is a particularly interesting example where they saw a rocketing rate of smoking amongst adolescents they introduced a smoking ban , er an an advertising ban , and in fact , it 's reversed and they , they 're youngsters are not smoking at the same rate as as they were . |
| 18 | By different processes erm but nevertheless receding at the same rate . |
| 19 | We 'll just looking at the big book together do you want to come and join us ? |
| 20 | Many professionals within the Lloyd 's market welcome the current crop of departures as there is an excess of financial capacity within the market at a time when business is not growing at the same rate as the available capacity . |
| 21 | On surfacing , the rate again speeds up , generally remaining at the higher level until the carbon dioxide content of the exhaled air has returned to normal — usually in a few seconds . |
| 22 | It looked quite terrifying — but somehow enticing at the same time . |
| 23 | She rubbed at her abused flesh , desperately grasping at the first straw to float into her mind . |
| 24 | Those not teaching at the present time are welcome to attend on a daily basis at £2 per session . |
| 25 | Consistent sailing means not taking too many unnecessary risks , such as not starting at the crowded end of the start line or sailing completely to one side of the beat where just one unfavourable wind shift can ruin you . |
| 26 | No two candidates will respond to questions in exactly the same way so you must keep a fair amount of flexibility in your approach — it would be wrong to stop a candidate from following up an interesting and potentially revealing answer simply because it is not coming at the designated point in your schedule . |
| 27 | Both male and female goats may be infertile for a number of reasons , ranging from the male having painful feet to the female not ovulating at the right time . |
| 28 | He took this in suddenly one morning as he was charging a girl the duty on a camera , hitting the thought like an air pocket and ludicrously yawning at the same time with his mouth shut so that the girl noticed his face lengthening like a mule 's . |
| 29 | Maggie met and talked to others she knew before finally arriving at the Commemorative Hall . |
| 30 | As the hull value of 707s , 727s , DC-8s and their ilk falls , their support costs — engines , systems , airport facilities etc , is not decreasing at the same rate . |