Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I work at a distribution centre , where there is continuous shiftwork , which means that women and men are walking home at all hours of day and night often taking short-cuts across playing fields and waste land , totally unaware of the potential dangers . |
| 2 | Our balance sheet is strong and we are looking carefully at further acquisitions in both the oil and non-oil sectors . |
| 3 | Mark Fisher , the UK Labour Party Shadow Minister for the Arts and Media , has already stated that they are looking independently at various ideas for funding living artists and admitted that they would be considered an exhibition royalty ‘ earlier and more enthusiastically ’ than other methods such as droit de suite ( qv ) . |
| 4 | The company 's plans indicate the way in which newspapers , having modernised printing methods , are looking closely at editorial costs . |
| 5 | The major clubs are looking sympathetically at any scheme which will reduce the number of matches to be played next season . |
| 6 | Elsewhere numbers are quite small , but Goldeneye are noted annually at several places along the coast , and on most important inland waters . |
| 7 | Do-it-yourself practice compares the visible differences in sentences which are spoken naturally at normal speech but not exaggerated . |
| 8 | They are doing so at differing speeds , faced by differing problems and with differing chances of success . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course I 've got a minute — what the bloody hell d' you think I 'm doing here at this time of night ? ’ |
| 10 | Meals , for example , are eaten communally at long tables and comprise simple but excellent fare , created almost entirely from estate produce . |
| 11 | Although these negative attitudes remain , they are directed more at some groups than others . |
| 12 | The chord-colour is changed occasionally , and conflicting chords are superimposed momentarily at infrequent points . |
| 13 | The 64-bit machines are pitched aggressively at competing offerings from Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp . |
| 14 | The 64-bit machines are pitched aggressively at competing offerings from Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp . |
| 15 | However , the needs of the mentally handicapped are perceived differently at different times according to prevailing attitudes towards mental disorder and the extent to which it is understood . |
| 16 | The difficulty of transfecting bloodstream form trypanosomes ( 22 ; DJ unpublished data ) may also be circumvented using this approach , in order to study the function and regulation of genes which are expressed only at this stage of the life cycle . |