Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [v-ing] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales of X-Windows software and X-terminals are still booming , according to the X Business Group , which estimates growth in the X-terminal business at around 100% , while sales of PC X-server products are growing at an astonishing 300% ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 2 | Not all subjects are changing at the same pace although the national curriculum will in time no doubt reach some kind of consistency . |
| 3 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 4 | Prize money in Britain covers only about one quarter of these costs , which is why some owners are looking at the larger prizes available in other countries . |
| 5 | Too many little things are happening at the one time . |
| 6 | ‘ Every member of the Hindu community is deeeply saddened by what has happened , things are escalating at an alarming rate , ’ said Bob Patel , a president of the burnt-out temple . |
| 7 | Angry motorists are protesting at a one hundred and fifty percent rise in charges on a busy toll bridge — from tuppence to fivepence . |
| 8 | When charged particles are travelling at the same velocity , and are subject to the same magnetic field , the heavier particles are deflected the least . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All those wankers obsessed with the shape of Ms Zeta Jones ' num-nums are looking at the wrong asset . |
| 11 | These twisted , stunted pines are growing at the extreme limits of their tolerance . |
| 12 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 13 | We plan to examine more carefully the relationship between development communication and people 's action where new communication paradigms are emerging at the local level , with ‘ new languages ’ and new symbols . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Central Office 's non-election expenses are running at an annual £12m or so . |