Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disembarking at certain points from a leisurely cruise , your guide , Bernie Dunn , arguably the best guide in Amsterdam will take you through Amsterdam 's most enchanting neighbourhoods by foot . |
| 2 | Fortunately , Evan-Thomas in Barham , steaming at maximum speed with his four battleships , had come within firing range . |
| 3 | EIGHTY years ago tomorrow , on the night of 14/15 April 1912 , the ‘ unsinkable ’ passenger liner Titanic , steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage , ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean , taking more than 1,500 souls with her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The new money will still leave gearing at 60 per cent , but Mr Scott says the company will be happy with that level of debt , given that gearing at other transport groups can be as high as 90 per cent . |
| 6 | The breakthrough , dubbed a ‘ quantum leap into the future ’ is opening at other cinemas throughout the US over the next few weeks . |
| 7 | Fuming at faulty goods ? |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 9 | Suddenly the section of the audience that was laughing at Italian children flinging spaghetti realised that everyone else had fallen silent . |
| 10 | Besides laughing with a comforting or gratifying sense of superiority when confronted with pictures of the incompetence of figures who the readers may recognize as representing their fellow men , the readers may also be regarded , she suggests , as laughing at common humankind and thus also ( unconsciously ) at themselves . |
| 11 | Fair enough , I plead guilty to telling & laughing at sick jokes too . |
| 12 | The second is that it unites psychology and biology since , in the early formulations , ‘ responses ’ were contractions of muscle groups , stimuli were physical events occurring at sensory receptors , and ‘ learning ’ was a real event occurring in the brain . |
| 13 | ago , the Outer Hebrides Thrust was reactivated , and the movements produced more crushing along the thrust plane , with the production of mylonites , which are pale coloured , very fine grained , schist-like bands of crush material occurring at irregular intervals along the line of the thrust . |
| 14 | It is occurring at especial speed in those countries in which development has been recent and fast . |
| 15 | Studies of experimentally induced influenza B in volunteers at the Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit showed that infection increased reaction times to stimuli occurring at varying intervals but that hand-eye coordination was unimpaired . |
| 16 | Brehmer had subjects attempt to estimate the number of road accidents occurring at various junctions and compared these estimates with the actual figures . |
| 17 | Nine families of mainly long-legged , long-necked and ( except for the plovers , pp. 121–5 ) long-billed , gregarious marsh or waterside birds , breeding in marshy tundra , taiga , moorland , or grassland , and wintering on estuaries and muddy or sandy seashores , occurring at freshwater margins chiefly on migration . |
| 18 | The use of naturally occurring sugars in milk , honey and fruit resulted in cavities occurring at different positions to those in modern teeth ( Moore and Corbett 1971 ) . |
| 19 | It is also possible to make more subtle combinations of the oscillations in the x and y directions in which the components are " out of phase " , their crests occurring at different instants . |
| 20 | Although much more work needs to be done in this area , the impression gained by surveying a range of industries is one of foreign incursions occurring at different times with price being a significant element at certain stages . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The three areas can be described as ones of political — religious mediation occurring at different levels of social process . |
| 23 | To understand the processes occurring at high Rayleigh number , it is helpful to look at the mean temperature distribution across the layer . |
| 24 | And Hugh Schonfield 's on-going series of studies of first-century Palestine was appearing at regular intervals throughout the 1970s . |
| 25 | We are retaining our Medau identity when appearing at prestigious events and thanks to the generosity of one of our Vice-Presidents ( ‘ Medau 's Grandmama ’ as she calls herself ) Peggy Secord , the Team will appear in new Medau Blue outfits at the CCPR Festival at the Royal Albert Hall in 1985 . |
| 26 | It may need hosing at high pressure to get rid of any surface slime . |
| 27 | The research students ' grants were ending at different points in the year , but were concentrated In the third quarter of 1984 . |
| 28 | The notion of rhythm involves some noticeable event happening at regular intervals of time ; one can detect the rhythm of a heart-beat , of a flashing light or of a piece of music . |
| 29 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |
| 30 | As the screenshot on the left shows , you can also glean information on the standard light aircraft route to North America and on what 's happening at near-Continent airfields . |