Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this kind of erm interest in children and in whether a couple are able to have children or not is has obviously been lying at the back of his mind has n't he ? |
| 2 | Six years ago we successfully brought about a European-wide ban on the bulk trade in tortoises where the UK alone was importing at the height of the trade 250,000 a year of which 80 per cent were dead within two years . |
| 3 | Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen . |
| 4 | Miranda frowned at the rain ; her visitors would shortly be arriving at the village hotels , for she had decided to hold the KITS annual sales conference weekend at Saracen . |
| 5 | He 'd soon be shouting at the window to call the boss up to go and get him some drink — usually home-brewed beer . |
| 6 | During the hearing , however , Neil Davidson , counsel for the Deanses , gave an undertaking that they would no longer be moving at the meeting for the removal of Mr Johnston as a director . |
| 7 | New shoots will already be appearing at the base of many herbs , and marjoram and mints respond well to this treatment . |
| 8 | In addition the rights must still be subsisting at the date of the court 's order ( Kirkwood v Johnson ( 1979 ) 38 P & CR 392 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Must you always be straining at the leash to bloody your blade ? ’ |
| 10 | Oh they probably are walking at the moment . |
| 11 | The minority , including Eleanor Rathbone , while not opposed to the redistribution of income in favour of the poor ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 29 ) , argued that they should also be aiming at the redistribution of income in favour of those with family responsibilities within each income group . |
| 12 | We will also be looking at the potential for ‘ converting ’ existing national awards into general SVQs , and at ways of fitting Higher National Certificates and Higher National Diplomas into the general SVQ framework . |
| 13 | ( Is there anything else you would rather be doing at the moment , apart from being a housewife and a mother ? ) |
| 14 | As Corrigan and Frith ( 1975 ) suggested , we should really be looking at the potential that is expressed in their deviant lifestyles and ‘ resistance ’ activities . |
| 15 | wo n't even be eating at the Chinese . |
| 16 | He might very well be staying at the château , but that did n't mean anything . |
| 17 | They 'd origionaly been staying at the hotel Mediteran , but then moved to a villa . |
| 18 | Jane had indeed been hinting at the opportunity for her husband 's murder , but she could not admit as much . |
| 19 | And then I was late , when I got round there I thought well she 'll at least be waiting at the top of the drive , if not at the top of the road . |
| 20 | Okay , so , where we got to last week then was looking at the analysis and modification of er work behaviour . |
| 21 | It can either be looking at the animal as an observer , in which case you can talk about the animals and what they are doing . |
| 22 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 23 | Another form of argument to be considered involves analysis of what else was happening at the time a text was written and first published . |
| 24 | She knew all that and , more , she had actually been passing at the time . |
| 25 | I will therefore be looking at the range of measures on offer to ensure that as we come out of the recession they offer unemployed people practical and effective help in getting back to work . ’ |