Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words written by Hinrich Medau in 1933 continue to guide our work today : ‘ The all-important inspiration of Medau work still remains the close connection between movement and music and we are constantly working at the deepening and widening of our knowledge in this as in other spheres ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ But in these hard times , cars are only selling at the right price . |
| 3 | I said that I said , A hundred and you 're only running at a hundred . |
| 4 | Erm you 're just looking at a little bit that 's new and you 're forgetting about the old stuff . |
| 5 | Honda is also producing its own version with a different body design and they 're both aiming at the same end of the market . |
| 6 | July the first more members er in , in , in local authorities than er than we 've got in the whole of our union right and we 've got twenty five per cent of our membership in , in local authorities and we 're getting hammered and we 're also getting at the same time privatization , we 're seeing local authorities being broken up and we 're seeing a creation of large numbers of employers . |
| 7 | Er increasingly , we 're also looking at a new market which has a holiday in the summer overseas and in winter goes skiing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Westminster Press cost budget is now adjusted and they 're currently trading at a nine percent margin which would be ten percent if it was n't for the er , expenditure on er , Yorkshire on Sunday er , the circulation of which is growing very nicely . |
| 10 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |
| 11 | CITY financiers are still gasping at the Financial Times editorial column on Thursday which backed Labour . |
| 12 | In the last decade magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) has become an established diagnostic tool in clinical medicine and improvements in experimental technique and equipment are still continuing at a considerable pace . |
| 13 | Incidentally , it is a good idea to take photographs where possible as sites are still disappearing at a rapid rate . |
| 14 | The poverty figures are still growing at an alarming rate . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Eccles says non-EC groups are also looking at the new regulations to identify ‘ schemes that overcome the more onerous ownership restrictions ’ . |
| 16 | The hardware platforms on which this software runs are also improving at a similar rate and , as they are not proprietary , it is possible for the user to upgrade at will rather than when the developer demands . |
| 17 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As we increase our confidence , right , so if we are ninety five percent confident we are now looking at the five percent significance level T rat er the critical value rate rises to two point zero point two and if you want to be even more confident , to be ninety nine percent confident about our inference , you look at the one percent level , right , and that has a T ratio of two point seven five . |
| 20 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |
| 21 | Many schools are now looking at the whole issue of profiling and records of achievement . |
| 22 | If we take into account the fact that women are now marrying at a younger age as well , twentieth-century families will be completed even earlier than the chart indicates . |
| 23 | Jobs are now disappearing at an alarming rate . |
| 24 | Summonses for non-payment are now running at a million a year |
| 25 | The monks are now advertising at the British Travel Trade Fayre . |
| 26 | The family are now celebrating at a secret location . |
| 27 | If he took no interest in gardening before his illness , he may find it refreshing to be outdoors looking at the different colours and shapes of the plants , smelling their fragrance , and watching the insects and birds they attract . |
| 28 | ‘ We are today standing at a historic crossroads , ’ Mr Suzuki told a conference in ( most appositely ) Hawaii , ‘ a crossroads where the many civilizations encounter each other in this Pacific region . |
| 29 | He knew that he was oversensitive to the timbre of the human voice and hers , although not jarring or unpleasant , sounded a little forced as if she were deliberately speaking at an unnatural pitch . |
| 30 | It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate . |