Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 2 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 3 | do n't , and the kids have been crossing at shop . |
| 4 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 5 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 6 | More importantly , any disclosures made in relation to this warranty will highlight fairly accurately whether the Business has been trading at a loss since the Balance Sheet Date — which if true might seriously affect the Purchaser 's willingness to buy the Business . |
| 7 | Mina and Kāli are taking their offering for the festival to the house where the dhāmis have been dancing at night . |
| 8 | The group had been drinking at a nearby pub in Uckington , Glos . |
| 9 | of the people had been smoking at the meeting . |
| 10 | Eastern Creek was n't scorching hot and yet Kenny Roberts revealed the Dunlops had been working at their best in the blazing heat of qualifying . |
| 11 | The woman behind the counter had been gazing at her through strong spectacles and now scratched doubtfully at her moustache with a thumb-nail . |
| 12 | According to the price inflation version of the Phillips curve , we must of necessity infer that the economy had been operating at a level of demand which was consistent with an unemployment rate U * ; in Figure 6.6 . |
| 13 | The Centre has been looking at the productivity record of profit-sharing and non-profit-sharing firms , and the extent to which Japanese experience supports the idea that profit-sharing is a defence against stagflation . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , is n't that a terrible poor ibex ! ’ exclaimed Mrs Healy , having identified easily what the girls had been looking at . |
| 15 | The Earl had been shouting at her that morning , ‘ Have n't you gone yet ? |
| 16 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 17 | The Doctor had been staring at the ceiling for a very long time . |
| 18 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 19 | Word even came out of Tibet that the Odonata had been assisting at sky-burials , where corpses are left in sacred mountainous places for the attention of scavenger birds . |