Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opening at about the rate of ten a year and Peter Revers ' avowed aim to have one in every state , the new factory was crucial . |
| 2 | Amidst worrying indicators that the US recovery may have stalled again — there was a disconcerting fall in capital goods orders in the first quarter , IBM Corp shares are on the slide again , and they were trading at around the $47 mark yesterday ; the 52-week low was $46.375 on January 21 , the lowest since 1975 . |
| 3 | The erstwhile bandido wore a bloody nose which he was dabbing at with an oversized tartan handkerchief . |
| 4 | All gifts should be sent to the bride 's home or the address she is living at before the wedding . |
| 5 | erm it 's difficult to say , but erm again that 's something they 're looking at over the next couple of weeks , but perhaps along last year 's lines — they should n't really be any higher than last year . |
| 6 | As the fuel prices come down they should n't have to surcharge , but again that 's something they 'll be looking at over the next couple of weeks . |
| 7 | Interest was also expressed over another site in the village , adjacent to the school , which East Hampshire District Council were said to be looking at with a view to a second affordable housing development . |
| 8 | After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day . |
| 9 | part of the area that we would be looking at for the new settlement . |
| 10 | I must know how , I 've been looking at at the . |
| 11 | Aberdeenshire grain farmers who last autumn stiffened themselves to trade wheat against the back stop of just £95 a tonne for product sold to the EC Commission for intervention , are now looking at at an ex-farm price of £140 a tonne . |
| 12 | Everything is smaller down there — including their eyeballs — to the same extent-so the eye still gets filled up with what it 's looking at in the normal way . |
| 13 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 14 | What have you been looking at in the maths . |
| 15 | I would have thought that for Morecambe they 're probably looking at like a thousand eleven hundred people if , you know |
| 16 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 17 | Fortunately , technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades . |
| 18 | Thus , the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) stated in 1985 that ‘ the best assumption for planning purposes is for a continuing high level of unemployment throughout the period ( 1985–89 ) and for a level of long-term unemployment remaining at around the one million mark . ’ |
| 19 | Four Greenpeace volunteers attempting to take samples for radioactivity testing at in the French nuclear testing ground of Muroroa atoll were arrested by French commandos on Dec. 11 . |
| 20 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 21 | Randy Hansen 's stage show is an extension of what Jimi Hendrix was doing at around the time of Woodstock and the Isle Of Wight festivals . |
| 22 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
| 23 | What we are staring at for the moment is a ‘ permanent ’ Conservative ascendancy , rooted in the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ and the sea-change in the political culture that has been in progress throughout the eighties . |
| 24 | You spoke about what was said in the brochure that management charges had been or would be running at about a rate of inflation , we can see it on page fifty six , it 's better if you look at it I think , rather than I parrot phrase , see fifty six if you so kind now see fifty six is talking about at Broadstone will the management charges greatly increase the answer is no management service , er , sorry has appointed U K leading management specialist for several reasons , firstly because of their professional caring attitude , secondly because time has shown that management charges , rises the rate either slightly below or at the levelled inflation when that brochure was produced in respect of that development was that statement true or was it not ? |
| 25 | It is this that I was hinting at in the previous chapter , when I referred to the queen ant as the central data bank . |
| 26 | Thus the Globigerina ooze on the floor of the Indian Ocean seems to be accumulating at between a and I centimetre per thousand years . |
| 27 | Having said that in the case of a of a a of a through movement , I accept that we are loading at at the traffic in at the A sixty one if you like and it 's coming out at the A sixty one north . |
| 28 | He seems to have gone missing at about the time your body was discovered . " |
| 29 | She began showing up at whatever hotel he was working at during the day , claiming to have been just passing . |
| 30 | They were working at about the same time as Turner and Constable and shared those artists ’ concerns in relation to painting directly from nature , which Dahl described as Naturvei — nature 's Way . |