Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downland Housing Association are building at the Larch Cottage site , Portsmouth Road , while the second site is at Lynchborough Road , Passfield . |
| 2 | ‘ All we have been told is that there will be a profit of £7,000-a-year but similar facilities in the North-East are running at a loss . ’ |
| 3 | Such structures also seem to provide a kind of elementary momentum in periods where a discipline is in the doldrums , and not a great deal is happening at the research level . |
| 4 | Difficult to see which way the wind is blowing at the moment it 's quite swirling . |
| 5 | Water is normally paid for via the water rates , but the water industry is looking at the feasibility of water metering in the future . |
| 6 | The Cemetery Club 's showing at the Wyvern until Saturday night . |
| 7 | Meh'Lindi in Stealer guise was racing at a crouch through dark ducts and service tunnels . |
| 8 | At the house of the Chief Scribe , Reni 's major domo was waiting at the gate to meet them . |
| 9 | At a thanksgiving service her second in command was writing at the top of the steps for one of the leaders to arrive . |
| 10 | Pion was staring at the sky . |
| 11 | In the Soviet Union popular support for the manned space programme was dwindling at a time of great economic hardship and political uncertainty for the majority of the population . |
| 12 | Fagan was standing at the door of the feedhouse when Nicandra approached him , as saucily as she was able , to demand handfuls of grain for her birds . |
| 13 | Chant was waiting at the perimeter , and fished the envelope containing the payment from his inside pocket . |
| 14 | Already his mouth was watering at the prospect of sinking his teeth into a thick slice of bread liberally spread with best butter and sprinkled with sugar from one of the big sacks standing in the corner . |
| 15 | By 1914 , strike action was running at a rate comparable to that of 1905 . |
| 16 | Albert compiled eight volumes of these Arien , many of which betray the influence of Schein , who was Kantor at Leipzig 's Thomaskirche while the younger musician was studying at the university there . |
| 17 | A wind was gathering at the coast , preparing to sweep across the fields , lean against the few trees and race on over the road , across to the far side of the island . |
| 18 | Only that amount which exceeds what would be spent on lunch if the employee was working at the office can even be considered . |
| 19 | He says that the council are looking at a number of options , the pool is being considered because it 's very costly to run . |
| 20 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 21 | Hello there this week we 've come to the coast to go climbing with three local mountaineers … the sport is celebrating at the moment … it 's thirty years since the conquest of Everest and every weekend you 'll find climbers out on the cliffs and craggs of britain |
| 22 | For now the Council is looking at a number of ways to save money , if they DO decide to close the pool , these might be the only swimmers left later this summer . |
| 23 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 24 | half way through do we have n't got a clue what the poor girl 's doing at the moment . |
| 25 | The headlines had already been written when Eddy and Boornazian suggested that the Sun was shrinking at a rate of 0.1 per century . |
| 26 | The guard was standing at the door of the hut , staring down towards the monastery . |
| 27 | The photo had been taken indoors and in poor light : the boy was sitting at a table , his head resting on one hand , a candle flickering nearby . |
| 28 | But the old lady was smiling at the question . |
| 29 | This was discussed at Public Transport at its last meeting , and there 's quite a lot of preamble , but basically erm in response to this request , erm Mr Townsend said that he reported the bus and coach council was looking at the question of pollution and green issues generally , and was about to produce a document suggesting ways forward . |
| 30 | While Foggerty and Sylvester were shaking their heads over the modern young back in the staff-room , Nutty and her team were congregating at the refrigerator factory to take another look at the amazing happening . |