Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time that anyone can remember , the Soviet Union has been buying at the London auction . |
| 2 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 3 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 4 | Daphne Hereward has been teaching at the Ghana Empire school in Accra since 1977 after a career devoted to classical and archaeological studies and teaching , in both university and school . |
| 5 | As the charity Oxfam moves into its fiftieth year , Central News South has been looking at the work it does away from the headlines of war and natural disaster . |
| 6 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 7 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 8 | The Centre has been looking at the productivity record of profit-sharing and non-profit-sharing firms , and the extent to which Japanese experience supports the idea that profit-sharing is a defence against stagflation . |
| 9 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |
| 10 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
| 11 | Foodmaster has been running at the BBC catering department for two years . |
| 12 | Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years . |
| 13 | As the minimum economic scale of production in the assembly plant has been decreasing , it has been increasing at the level of the firm for engineering , design and marketing . |
| 14 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 15 | Twice a day for the best part of four decades a box has been arriving at the Palace containing the reports from British ambassadors overseas . |
| 16 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ There 's been picketing at the Town Hall , some rioting , the blackshirts moved in . |