Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 2 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 3 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 7 | In its efforts to raise revenue to pay off the debt , Maxxam has been logging at twice the usual rate . |
| 8 | Frances has been working at Ashworth for the last four years . |
| 9 | Our Political Editor Peter Hayes has been looking at Labour 's week in Brighton . |
| 10 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 11 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 12 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 13 | Crash investigator , David Bristow used tyre marks on the road and a reconstruction to calculate that Gooch 's car had been travelling at up to 96 mph . |
| 14 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 15 | Dustin had been working at his antique desk all morning on contact sheets of his wedding pictures , taken almost a year before , trying to pick out the ones to develop . |
| 16 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |
| 17 | do n't , and the kids have been crossing at shop . |
| 18 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 19 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 20 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 21 | THE P&O flag has been flying at Table Mountain . |
| 22 | As the charity Oxfam moves into its fiftieth year , Central News South has been looking at the work it does away from the headlines of war and natural disaster . |
| 23 | Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results . |
| 24 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 25 | Apparently Mr. Dolman had been working at The Albion Hotel , fell from a very tall ladder and was killed . |
| 26 | Shortly before the attack , Mick had been dancing at a Singles Night at the Wiltshire Hotel . |
| 27 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 28 | Hal and Joy had been working at Applecross Cafe for over 10 years . |
| 29 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 30 | Britain 's hedgerows have been vanishing at the rate of 1,800 miles a year . |