Example sentences of "be [v-ing] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 2 | Some colleges already undertake their own training of senior management staff and the Further Education Staff College at Coombe Lodge has for years been catering at the national level for the management needs of senior staff by providing residential conferences and workshops , most of which are over-subscribed . |
| 3 | Then , if you wish , split your walks into a.m. and p.m. on alternate days when you are walking at a moderate pace . |
| 4 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 5 | More evidence of the worldwide decline of coral has emerged from Florida , where researchers who have been monitoring the health of the reefs since 1976 report that they are dying at a rapid rate . |
| 6 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Herman , whom Erika had already been keeping at a safe distance from her feet , backed away . |
| 9 | The playgroup , at Cam in Gloucestershire , has been meeting at the United Reform chapel in the village for 10 years . |
| 10 | And PC Week has been looking at the pre-release development kit for Windows NT , shipping this week , and finds that the new NT File System is not yet complete , and neither are the security features that are tied to it . |
| 11 | Our environment reporter Harriet Ryley has been looking at the changing attitude to what we throw away and how we deal with it . |
| 12 | I have been looking at the Labour party document for health in Scotland , ’ A |
| 13 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 14 | Alistair and Wayne show they have appreciated that the addition of one tower to the other will create a new tower that is taller than either of its component towers , whereas Matthew and Claire have been looking at the inverse operation — one brick less and the tower is lower . |
| 15 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 16 | He had been writing at the big desk , and had come round it to examine the patient . |
| 17 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 18 | But just as these new politics have been developing at the local level , so too we need new theories and new concepts to take account of them . |
| 19 | She says , over 500 people are meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels today , to talk about disabled people 's human rights . |
| 20 | She says , over 500 people are meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels today , to talk about disabled people 's human rights . |
| 21 | They are operating at the bottom end of the market with no capital and no security . |
| 22 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 23 | They are fine in Cookstown when you are looking at a working population of 8 or 9,000 people , but in Belfast travel-to-work area you are looking at something like 150,000 people and that confuses the well-off and the very impoverished . |
| 24 | Tack on VAT at the standard rate , and you are looking at a total tax take of £1.33 ( surprisingly , the same as on diesel ) and £1.60 respectively . |
| 25 | So when we look at Paul as he writes about himself , we are looking at a Christian man whose life and words have parallels for each one of us . |
| 26 | Asked what was in the fresh package , she said repeatedly : ‘ We are looking at a whole range of options which will help unemployed people , in particular long-term unemployed , to keep in touch with the workplace , keep their skills updated and use their time more productively than some of the rules and regulations currently allow . ’ |
| 27 | Children are sometimes told ‘ it is rude to stare ’ , but cat-lovers often forget this rule when they are looking at an approaching feline . |
| 28 | Of course the elves are in a wood at that moment , and they are looking at the early evening stars , but that is not what they mean . |
| 29 | ‘ We are looking at the all-round development of the child , not just narrow academic achievement , ’ added Ms Robinson . |
| 30 | Please check you are looking at the correct part of the table for the day you wish to travel . |