Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the many ways in which dolphins make signal gestures to humans are leaping at significant moments , deliberately splashing people on boats after first making close eye contact , vocalising or whistling through the blowhole after people have made communicative calls or whistles , defaecation and touching . |
| 2 | Thus , it is to sectoral differences that we now turn , to illustrate how change has been occurring at different rates and with different implications for governments . |
| 3 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 4 | BRITAIN 'S oil ‘ minnows ’ , many of them companies whose shares are trading at big discounts to their asset values , are hoping to grow by acquisition before they are swallowed by much bigger predators , writes George Duthie . |
| 5 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 6 | More recently , users and staff have been meeting at regional and national courses sponsored by the TUC which have examined the political and organisational issues about these centres and unemployment generally . |
| 7 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 8 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 9 | Dr Briggs and Richard Fortey ( of London 's Natural History Museum ) have been looking at new ways of classifying the various arthropods in the Burgess . |
| 10 | Social scientists have been looking at extra-marital sexual patterns to understand why it is some men and women have affairs and others do n't . |
| 11 | Computers are used in all walks of life , although so far in our series of programmes we 've largely been looking at scientific applications . |
| 12 | In the last two chapters we have been looking at deserted and surviving villages . |
| 13 | Detectives say they are looking at possible links with recent assaults on women in Oxford . |
| 14 | We are looking at young people who are likely to be sexually active . ’ |
| 15 | Archaeologists are beginning to realize this and are looking at alternative approaches , seeing sites as part of the landscape and related to one another , something which has been advocated by students of leys and Earth Mysteries for many years . |
| 16 | Consultants are looking at various sites and will report to the council in November . |
| 17 | A Ford spokesman said : ‘ We are looking at various aspects of our high performance models , not just the hot hatches … it would be fair to say that we are being a lot more discreet about the badging and ‘ dressing up ’ of some models now . ’ |
| 18 | So we are looking at distributed processing . ’ |
| 19 | First , however , some general points to check when you are looking at non-ELT materials . |
| 20 | ‘ We are looking at Continental institutions such as pension funds which take a more long-term view or are more entrepreneurial . ’ |
| 21 | Okay , now that result holds , right , for all erm for all marginal relationships Okay , so if we are looking at a marginal marginal cost curve , right , we have got that 's our marginal cost , that 's our average cost we , we 're intersecting here when in the case it is a minimum so marginal costs cuts through average costs at its minimum value we are looking at average revenue and marginal revenue average revenue function marginal revenue function This is our total revenue function and the same relationship is embodied there , but , notice that between the average and the average revenue and marginal revenue functions , right , do n't intersect simply because we have got a linear relationship here right , average revenue is always above marginal revenue in this particular case . |
| 22 | The Metropolitan Police are co-ordinating the survey and six other forces , Avon and Somerset , Devon and Cornwall , Northumbria , North Wales , Sussex and South Yorkshire , are looking at specific police roles . |
| 23 | And of course we are looking at other products all the time . |
| 24 | Target Europe are looking at new ways to obtain sponsorship deals for sportsmen from the point of view of what competitors can market rather than who will offer financial support , sponsorship being a business arrangement , not a charity . |
| 25 | Such simulations , based on observed system behaviour , can tell us how things might have been if we are looking at unrepeatable , past , events or how the system might behave in the future , if the transition probabilities remain unaltered . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ We are looking at frightening levels of loss which an independent company could not sustain . ’ |
| 27 | In Ujong Kulon , Indonesia , we are looking at novel microorganisms which might be useful to man . |
| 28 | There are farmers who with the existing lack of any political support are looking at different avenues to improve their profits or even make a profit . |
| 29 | When the idea of teleworking first came up , there was a fear of poor pay and long hours , but with this scheme we are looking at proper terms and conditions . |
| 30 | We are looking at Organic growing by people who have been there and really know the problems . |