Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [adv] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He is now investigating if leukaemia cases rose in Orkney and Shetland due to wartime incomers and is also looking at the effects of large construction projects in Britain in the post-war period . |
2 | Accordingly , on the departure of a partner , the continuing firm will try , subject always to the wishes of individual clients , to retain clients for whom the outgoing partner has acted in the past and is currently acting at the date of his leaving the firm . |
3 | The Boulby potash mine in North Yorkshire , working Upper Permian Zechstein evaporites at a depth of 1100m , began production in 1974 and is now producing at the rate of 770000t/y KCl . |
4 | She now has a wedding dress that cost me the national debt , but which now bears no relation to the original creation because all the expensive seed-pearls are strewn around her bedroom floor , and which the dog thought would be marvellous to eat and is now residing at the local vet 's and which will cost me even more money . |
5 | deane still looks out of sorts though , but Wallace is back to his old ways and was continually running at the defenders . |
6 | And after running out of ideas against Watson he then appeared to run out of strength and motivation and was actually looking at the canvas instead of into his opponents ' eyes in the seventh round when he was flattened by a thumping left jab . |
7 | By now I had forgotten Vauban and was surreptitiously staring at the two seated figures . |
8 | Hanging over the increasingly tense political situation throughout May was the fate of more than 100 prisoners taking part in a mass hunger strike which began on May 1 and was still continuing at the end of the month . |
9 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
10 | Meantime Ing C Olivetti & Co — which has an interest in the ARM RISC via its 80% holding in Acorn Computers Plc , is developing its own personal communicator , but is also looking at the AT&T Hobbit , and may join the alliance with Eo ; its own product would be the next generation of the 2.2lbs Quaderno portable , which uses the 16MHz 8086-compatible NEC Corp V30HL chip . |
11 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |