Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , if you wish , split your walks into a.m. and p.m. on alternate days when you are walking at a moderate pace . |
| 2 | More evidence of the worldwide decline of coral has emerged from Florida , where researchers who have been monitoring the health of the reefs since 1976 report that they are dying at a rapid rate . |
| 3 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 4 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 5 | They are fine in Cookstown when you are looking at a working population of 8 or 9,000 people , but in Belfast travel-to-work area you are looking at something like 150,000 people and that confuses the well-off and the very impoverished . |
| 6 | Tack on VAT at the standard rate , and you are looking at a total tax take of £1.33 ( surprisingly , the same as on diesel ) and £1.60 respectively . |
| 7 | So when we look at Paul as he writes about himself , we are looking at a Christian man whose life and words have parallels for each one of us . |
| 8 | Asked what was in the fresh package , she said repeatedly : ‘ We are looking at a whole range of options which will help unemployed people , in particular long-term unemployed , to keep in touch with the workplace , keep their skills updated and use their time more productively than some of the rules and regulations currently allow . ’ |
| 9 | This all sounds good and even looks good if you 're looking at a still picture in the magazine , but the animation is a tad on the jerky side . |
| 10 | And it 's gon na work along the lines of well , if we 're looking at a typical endowment mortgage , yeah , normally they run for twenty-five years , do n't they . |
| 11 | Erm given that we 're looking at a long-term greenbelt proposal and a comparatively relatively short-term Southern Ryedale Local Plan , erm I think it 's very difficult to for anybody to establish a need now , i in the terms of implied under E Ten , which is going to perhaps erm not show itself erm for for twenty or twenty five years , in in terms of o of land allocation , la land requirement . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've had complaints from over 200 amusement hall operators , parents , safety standards people … we 're looking at a complete re-run of that blasted horrorshow we had when Pit Bull was released . ’ |
| 13 | I was trying to hint at that this morning that we 're looking at a whole child and sometimes they 're not gon na succeed in a subject they 've put it cos there 's sod all else for them to put and we need to be aware of that . |
| 14 | Well we 're looking at a particular condition of the lung that affects patients in intensive care ; it 's a disease a bit like pneumonia , it 's called the adult respiratory distress syndrome , and it 's a disease that we believe is associated with a lot of fluid in the lung , and a compatriot of mine , Dr Young , and Dr McQuillam have been working on a research that er has asked the question — ‘ if we reduce the amount of fluid in the lung , do these patients get better and get better quicker ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're looking at a one-fight scenario or a two-fight scenario , ’ said Bowe 's manager , Rock Newman , referring to Bowe fighting Lewis first or after he has already had one defence . |
| 16 | So you 're going at a steady speed . |
| 17 | Vendors who are selling at a substantial price ( including an element for goodwill ) , which has been agreed between the parties on the basis of certain assumptions made by the purchasers regarding the business , are compensated for any risk that they will be asked to take . |
| 18 | It is important that Compacts be designed with sufficient flexibility for those students who are failing at a certain stage , to negotiate re-entry and a further attempt at the goals . |
| 19 | I turn to face the cop , but find I 'm looking at a black guy I ai n't seen before . |
| 20 | An erm I 'm looking at a Christian Aid produced brochure called Trade for Change , which is the name of Christian Aid 's campaign . |
| 21 | The following evening , the three originators of Detroit- most sought-after new export are dining at a downtown restaurant- it 's small , discreet , with no sign on the outside , just a number and a bell . |
| 22 | The ‘ activity ’ is the name given to the longest unit , it relates to the mode in which the teacher and children are working at a particular point in the lesson . |