Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 2 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 3 | This is occurring at the same time as the Commission is using the single market as an excuse to augment its power for political means . |
| 4 | In the tropics , however , environmental change is occurring at an unprecedented rate where deforestation is creating local and , in all probability , global environmental problems since the demise of tropical rainforests in particular may well be contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect ( section 5.3.1 ) . |
| 5 | Did you see that one advertising triple glazing at the same time as his double would you believe ? |
| 6 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |
| 7 | For keyboard operators this means seating at the correct height and having a work station where the wrists are straight and the elbows bent at 90° . |
| 8 | The operator told us that rubbish is smouldering at a considerable depth and it would take a lot of work to put it out . |
| 9 | How often do you meet and how many people there , you 're showing interest but you 're also qualifying at the same time and it 's not padding , it 's actually useful information because you 're thinking well that 's worth pursuing the R N I , yes but there 's money there . |
| 10 | This shows the present-value profiles for two bonds A and B , trading at the same price and yield to maturity , and having the same duration . |
| 11 | Sellotape will not stick to varnish , she had discovered ; she ended up with hammer and tintacks , shrinking at the unseemly noise and violence . |
| 12 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 13 | Frantically he began tearing at the small buttons that ran from her waist to the collar of her dark blouse . |
| 14 | When the change in angle is made smoothly , the glider will be climbing at a safe angle and will be able to recover if there is a launch failure at any point . |
| 15 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 16 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 17 | Caroline did a rapid mental calculation , frowning at the rugged coastline as they skirted the eastern tip of the island . |
| 18 | Modernity began in earnest with this industrialism — like the starting up of a great steam-driven machine , straining and clanking at the mechanical bit and snorting with impatience to be off . |
| 19 | ‘ Their letter relates to an earlier position when we were looking at a phased opening because we had not identified full resources , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him . |
| 21 | So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better . |
| 22 | And one of one of the things that I 've got on a regular basis is the many of the things Harlow Council put on like pop concerts country and western have actually been used by people who who perhaps live outside of Harlow so the Council are now looking at a charging policy but also we should also gon na introduce into the theatre is the leisure card which actually includes that the people actually live in the town local and the reproductional sort of show if they can do so they should buy . |
| 23 | I was trying to hint at that this morning that we 're looking at a whole child and sometimes they 're not gon na succeed in a subject they 've put it cos there 's sod all else for them to put and we need to be aware of that . |
| 24 | Erm you 're just looking at a little bit that 's new and you 're forgetting about the old stuff . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're looking at a one-fight scenario or a two-fight scenario , ’ said Bowe 's manager , Rock Newman , referring to Bowe fighting Lewis first or after he has already had one defence . |
| 26 | You 're not looking at the stream , you 're looking at the bloody quality and you ca n't stop yourself doing it . ’ |
| 27 | Each situation under which law is being used either against or by the peace movement will have to be analysed extensively by looking at the specific arena and the specific legal language spoken . |
| 28 | Looking at the specific people and events mentioned , the degree to which one might talk of ‘ organisation ’ seems somewhat open to question . |
| 29 | I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month . |
| 30 | Delving into her bag , Cara extracted a few cards from her wallet and passed them over to her , and while Fabia , who knew her sister went by her maiden name in her job , was looking at the printed cards that announced ‘ Cara Kingsdale , Verity magazine ’ , Cara was suggesting , ‘ Keep those by you just in case Mr Gajdusek wants proof that you represent Verity . |