Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 2 | Comet are opening at Festival Park . |
| 3 | Hundreds of thousands of these animals are dying at man 's hand every year . |
| 4 | But then when people are driving at night and catch a glimpse of a barn owl in their headlights , they should feel lucky , too . |
| 5 | Imagine you are driving at midday . |
| 6 | Such a lightning-spattered ending is found , for example , in Passionate Summer ( 1958 ) , where for most of the film the schoolteacher on a Caribbean Island has been keeping at bay the emotions directed towards him by a troubled pupil , the headmaster 's wife and an air hostess . |
| 7 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 8 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 9 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 10 | Watkins says Bill Joy 's Sun Labs team has been looking at micro-kernel technologies under the auspices of Spring , Sun 's blue-sky , rolling research effort . |
| 11 | Our Political Editor Peter Hayes has been looking at Labour 's week in Brighton . |
| 12 | We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale . |
| 13 | The carers are meeting at County Hall , Chester this morning to lobby councillors arriving for the Social Services Committee . |
| 14 | A number of demonstration OTEC plants are operating at present . |
| 15 | These programmes are aimed at managers who are operating at Board level , allowing those with the greatest responsibility for strategy and policy the opportunity to refresh their skills , to bring themselves fully up-to-date professionally and to focus on the implications of changes in the commercial and public sector environment for the benefit of their own organisation |
| 16 | This method assumes that a multinational 's subsidiaries , incorporated in different countries , are operating at arm's-length from their parent , paying market prices for the goods and services each imports from elsewhere in the group . |
| 17 | And , if we are looking at regression as a form of therapy — as , indeed we should be — the benefit can surely only come when you re-experience the previous existence for yourself ( or even when you imagine that you do ) . |
| 18 | They are looking at job-weighting , concepts of ‘ stewardship ’ and performance measurement in the knowledge that greater flexibility in pay ( and recruitment ) will be crucial factors in escaping from what Mr Montagu calls ‘ the rigidities that have bedevilled us in the past ’ . |
| 19 | If they are looking at video recordings of classes , trainees will need some guidance in their viewing . |
| 20 | Erm a lot of employers are looking at self funding because the m They can manage their own money and it 's much more efficient to do so and then they also have a lot more control over the management of the claims themselves because they select their own management corporation . |
| 21 | They are looking at structure and functions at the same time . |
| 22 | We are looking at Road , that 's the assurance , we are considering that er as er an extension but there is n't funding available for that within the present programme so we will come back with a proposal for Road but it will have to be compared with other big schemes so the scheme we are proposing now is the one that 's before you , which er I wo n't comment on unless people have questions . |
| 23 | If we are looking at power and powerlessness in the health services the issue of gender is clearly one which has to be addressed . |
| 24 | Both are looking at property in Suffolk and Lyall has his London home up for sale . |
| 25 | The , er , credit to that goes to the chairman and chief executive and the executive directors and they are responsible for the business and it is right , in my view , that they should be rewarded for it and encouraged to take risks to work very hard on our behalf to ensure that that growth continues er , er , that benefits the , er , company , it benefits the country it benefits the er ergo , people who are working for it , it is not inflationary because we are looking at productivity and the productivity in the company has increased significantly . |
| 26 | Er we are looking at page erm |
| 27 | Other schools are looking at business and industry in their home towns . |
| 28 | They can help to identify which companies you ought to be looking at , they may have a database of relevant information , and if you are looking at information-gathering from a number of companies they can save you time and effort if they do the legwork . |
| 29 | N B N B when you see the moon you are looking at light from the sun reflected from the moon circles . |
| 30 | The New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago commodity exchanges are looking at programme trades carried out last July which may have flouted market rules and contributed to sudden movements in both the Dow Jones index and the S&P 500 futures index . |