Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.

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1 Downland Housing Association are building at the Larch Cottage site , Portsmouth Road , while the second site is at Lynchborough Road , Passfield .
2 They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers .
3 I mean , seeing the amount of kids that do go out there , and the state of the changing rooms that they are using at the moment , I , I think it 's really degrading .
4 Output is allocated among plants so that all are producing at the lowest point on their average cost curves .
5 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 .
6 Sweeping the board by book or by rook The Polgar sisters , who this weekend are competing at the Barbican , are the most remarkable phenomenon in the history of chess .
7 250 officers and men from the Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Engineers , already equipped with their familiar United Nations blue berets , have been gathering at the Army 's Air Movement Centre at South Cerney in Gloucestershire .
8 When kittens are sucking at the nipple , letting the mother know all is well .
9 Josnau a di chop — I am eating at the moment
10 Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled .
11 Jane had indeed been hinting at the opportunity for her husband 's murder , but she could not admit as much .
12 Thus Castro was in dire need of a Soviet commitment to preserve his revolution , and in a speech given to the United Nations on 26 September 1960 the Cuban leader may have been hinting at the price he might have been willing to pay when he said , ‘ We understand how terrible the subordination of the economy and life in general of nations to foreign economic power is .
13 Too many little things are happening at the one time .
14 We 've been knocking at the door in four defeats .
15 While Jessica and Karen had been helping with the salmon mousse , the dark-eyed alien had been lurking at the gate …
16 Hoddle kicked off by telling Swindon he wanted to leave … he wanted a bigger club … next thing Chelsea are knocking at the door for both Hoddle and John Gorman … they both resigned …
17 The extra time and support that are necessary ( a ) to perform jobs that are pressing at the limits of personal and material resources , and ( b ) to invest in learning how to do them better , or to assemble additional resources , so that the time taken to perform them is reduced , are not available .
18 Surely Ministers are appearing at the Dispatch Box solely to answer questions about their governmental responsibilities .
19 Half seven the Hare and Hounds at Warsop and District Camera Club they 're meeting at the Hare and Hounds pub in Warsop and tonight they have a competition Slides in Action and seven thirty Slimmers Clubs U K are meeting at the Age Concern Centre Street in Beeston and seven thirty as well until eight thirty a mixed ability aerobics class is on in the gymnasium of Rainworth Recreation Centre that 's one fifty there and Joe Walker Zydeco Band direct from Louisiana are appearing at the Old Vic on Fletchergate at Nottingham tonight at half seven six pounds the tickets there four pounds concessions and they 're available on the door .
20 Stockton band Dirty Boots are appearing at The Waterfront , Stockton , 9pm .
21 — STARS of the Sixties , The Swinging Blues Jeans are appearing at The Mayfair Centre , Seaton Carew tonight .
22 Oh they probably are walking at the moment .
23 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 .
24 We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day .
25 I like to think that I am laughing at the idea , which has as real a set of consequences as bombs in a Tom and Jerry cartoon .
26 the City Council 's remains as efficient as possible , and erm most all the posts that we have at present , we believe are necessary , but we do continue to monitor them and see whether it is necessary to continue to employ all the people that we are employing at the moment .
27 Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city .
28 Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms .
29 As she slowly regained strength , Julia began to be able to think of things beyond her own physical state , and whenever David came to see her she urged him to tell her what had been happening at the trial .
30 ‘ I 'm sorry I 'm late , sir , ’ he said , ‘ but terrible things have been happening at the dairy .
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