Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When kittens are sucking at the nipple , letting the mother know all is well . |
| 2 | Already , my fingers are picking at the edge of the pad and I have only written , ( dragged out ) 178 words , but who 's counting ? |
| 3 | This is also known as the purposive approach , since the courts are looking at the purpose for which the Act was passed . |
| 4 | No other foreigners are training at the moment . |
| 5 | His benevolent brown eyes are looking at the floor to Shirley 's left , about five feet beyond her , and he appears to be thinking not about the flute as a career , but about the problems and opportunities of kitchen floor tiling . |
| 6 | Bargaining or negotiation , a less pompous term is haggling , only occur when both parties are dealing at the margin . |
| 7 | Both parties are looking at the project from different angles , so it is not surprising if each fails to see the other 's viewpoint . |
| 8 | A group of Russian teenagers are studying at the Abbey International College ; they 'll help to show the orphans around : |
| 9 | Revolutionary Iran responded with the familiar accusation that the superpowers were uniting at the expense of Iran to secure their own interests . |
| 10 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 11 | The agreement was that if both cars were running at the front with no problems , then I was to win . |
| 12 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 13 | A short , stocky middle-aged man with thinning brown hair , a ruddy face and a twinkle in his eyes was standing at the doorway eyeing him . |
| 14 | Within seconds one of the porters was knocking at the door to escort us down in case of trouble . |
| 15 | But only 3,000 wildcat miners are digging at the mine , compared with 20,000 a year ago . |
| 16 | Like the stately swan gliding serenely over the water , few suspect that under the surface the legs and feet are going at a rate of knots , with the result that the following items are in the pipeline , if not already attended to : — |
| 17 | Parents are protesting at a headmaster 's decision to send home an entire class because there 's no-one to teach them . |
| 18 | Rural areas are suffering at the moment . |
| 19 | They simply can not afford to sit back when , each year , some 300 youngsters are straining at the leash to get into their midst via the Qualifying Schools . |
| 20 | Each day 25 refugees are dying at a camp housing about 190,000 in Dollo on the Somali border , officials said , adding that , on March 17 alone , 55 people died there . |
| 21 | Rachel 's opportunity to speak to her parents came on Saturday morning after the community nurse had arrived and was tending to Jennifer in her room and she and her parents were sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 22 | ( Notice that this requires that each of the original companies were producing at an output below minimum efficient scale . ) |
| 23 | According to Tektronix UK Ltd , Marlow , Buckinghamshire , commercially available X-Windows applications are increasing at a rate of 40% a year : under the company 's validation programme , over 60 new applications have been approved after testing on Tektronix TekXpress X terminals . |
| 24 | Bankruptcies are running at a record rate of 800,000 a year . |
| 25 | Ethnic Germans and asylum-seekers are entering at a rate of 1,600 per day . |
| 26 | The Regional Arts Boards are straining at the leash , wanting to take over as many of the Arts Council 's responsibilities as they can get . |
| 27 | With entries up 20 per cent , the organisers are looking at the possibility of using an additional hall for the event . |
| 28 | SMALL BUSINESSES are collapsing at the rate of one every 10 minutes . |
| 29 | Businesses are collapsing at the rate 76 a day with a total of 7,014 company insolvencies in the three months to the end of September , according to the British Chambers of Commerce . |
| 30 | Businesses are collapsing at the rate 76 a day with a total of 7,014 company insolvencies in the three months to the end of September , according to the British Chambers of Commerce . |