Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [v-ing] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having released Gary , Nails was swimming at a phenomenal speed after another victim . |
| 2 | Their membership , mainly middle-class , have met considerable difficulty in trying to achieve their limited goals — integrated schooling for the children of those parents who wish it — though some of the membership in the early days were aiming at a total integration of the schooling system . |
| 3 | Angry motorists are protesting at a one hundred and fifty percent rise in charges on a busy toll bridge — from tuppence to fivepence . |
| 4 | Two chambermaids were standing at a respectful distance , watching his efforts in some awe . |
| 5 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 8 | So if there 's any er er erm thought that the er ombudsman complaints were running at a high level as far as this committee 's interest were concerned , I can confirm that that is n't in fact the case . |
| 9 | And we were living in very a abnormal times , and women were snatching at a little bit of happiness they could get , you know this is what it was . |