Example sentences of "[v-ing] at a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were pushing at a partially open door as far as Britain was concerned . |
| 2 | 9 In a debt-scourged country , you are looking at a formerly beautiful place now devastated by oil-drilling . |
| 3 | Jimmy McGregor , a member of the legislative council , said , ‘ If we did not have to depend on China we would be looking at a most marvellous future . ’ |
| 4 | He was looking at a completely empty street , so lacking in signs of life that it might be a convenient escape route . |
| 5 | We were looking at a very serious contender indeed . |
| 6 | We read the message of our watch by looking at a constantly changing display . |
| 7 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 8 | If that freelance photojournalist is wounded , but soon returns to the operational area to continue covering the story , only to be wounded a second time , then we are looking at a fairly remarkable man with a tale worth telling . |
| 9 | ‘ You are looking at a genuinely reformed character , ’ he assured her with soft intensity , his gaze darkening as his eyes roved hungrily over her flushed cheeks , then down to the open neck of her checked blouse where her breasts were crushed against his chest . |
| 10 | After studying the detailed entries in the parish registers of a group of farming settlements in the Vale of York from 1777 onwards , Dr B. A. Holderness has concluded that , ‘ The picture which emerges is of village communities refreshed by an influx from similar settlements lying at a comparatively short distance away . ’ |
| 11 | We 've been growing at a fairly significant rate considering we 've only been back about five years . |
| 12 | In general a very useful tool with multi-purpose applications selling at a very reasonable price . |
| 13 | It has been in operation for 100 years and is proceeding at a very slow rate . |
| 14 | Secondly , there is the increasing demand in the developed world for wood and wood products which is placing more pressure on indigenous forests , while in many developing countries land and fuelwood scarcity as well as the need to earn foreign currency are prompting wood harvesting at a hitherto unprecedented rate and often under inadequate management . |
| 15 | It should be visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy patch ( without a tail ) two to three times the size of the Moon , and moving at a relatively high speed — by about its own diameter every hour . |
| 16 | Speaking at a generally upbeat presentation of the results this week , Pearson chief operating officer Frank Barlow said that both Penguin and Longman had scored record sales , profits and cash management . |
| 17 | Aiming at a very specific readership , they carried shorter articles written in the jargon of the various separate sciences . |
| 18 | I was staying at a very nice hotel called The Swans Nest which allows dogs . |
| 19 | Since she 'd been wearing her seatbelt and travelling at a very slow speed , she was n't hurt , but the shock was enough to make her tremble . |
| 20 | We do n't expect to do it overnight , though — it 's only when we are performing at a consistently high level that customers can forget some of their previous unsatisfactory experiences . |
| 21 | It 's only when we are performing at a consistently high level that customers can forget some of their previous unsatisfactory experiences ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’ |
| 23 | With general interest in Australia running at a reasonably high level in Japan , the exhibition is expected to attract some 250,000 visitors . |
| 24 | fjortoft has not scored a single goal in the premiership yet ( he kept them coming at a very steady rate at rapid vienna ( under manager Hans Krankl — one of my favorite strikers — favorite striker of all times has to be Der Bomber , Gerd Muller , who scored something like 60 goals in 50 internationals ! did he in fact score against us in our 2–0 defeat vs Bayern Munich ? ) ) — i guess Fjortoft has problems adjusting to the english play and swindon is not the best of teams anyway . |
| 25 | Some writers on intonation claim that the intonation pattern starting at a fairly high pitch , with a gradual dropping down of pitch during the utterance , is the most basic , normal , ‘ unmarked ’ intonation pattern ; this movement is often called declination . |
| 26 | I welcome very much the opportunity to raise on the Adjournment the question of the working of the police national computer mark 2 and the need for effective safeguards , and I am delighted that this debate is starting at a relatively civilised hour . |
| 27 | ‘ When you see clients on a professional basis you are connecting at a fairly deep level . |
| 28 | He really took to reading at a very early age . |
| 29 | It was the NSF 's statistics that led President Carter 's administration to feed more funds to basic science , though it is doubtful whether the numbers help in decision making at a more detailed level — whether to increase or cut a laboratory 's budget , for example . |
| 30 | When she awoke , rubbing at a rather stiff neck , feeling hungry , but better than she expected , she found it was the middle of the morning and sunshine was streaming into every corner of the cottage . |