Example sentences of "[be] [be] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively as the accounts are being done at the end of the month at that point in time the benefit is used up so the rent could be charged to the profit and loss account directly . |
| 2 | Now I think that the whole school meals issue , not just this , but also the way in which cost savings are being achieved at the moment in schools . |
| 3 | ‘ Fundamental questions are being posed at the same time about the company itself and about the strategic character of the industry . ’ |
| 4 | Since most fish feed is made of fish , farmed salmon and trout are being reared at the expense of much larger quantities of wild species like sprat , capelin , pout and sand eel . |
| 5 | ( D5 ) can be optionally fitted to the board and merely indicates that characters are being received at the RS232 input . |
| 6 | If insects are being named at the rate of about 7,250 species a year and synonymized at about 1,450 a year , then these rates are within our capacity for entry into master inventories . |
| 7 | This may seem to violate the definition of policy making as involving more than isolated decisions , yet individual professional judgements of this kind may cluster or have similarities that suggest implicit if not explicit policy decisions that are being made at the operational level . |
| 8 | * A leaked memorandum shows that growing amounts of untreated nuclear waste are being stored at the UK Atomic Energy Authority 's base at Aldermaston , due to delays in constructing safe disposal sites , in part for fear that they will not meet safety requirements . |
| 9 | Eyebrows are being raised at the fact that the provincial government bought a number of MacMillan Bloedel shares weeks before the announcement of the plan . |
| 10 | In fact , only one per cent of plants in the rainforest have been fully analysed ; and yet the forests are being destroyed at the rate of fifty to a hundred acres per minute . |
| 11 | The Forest Survey of India has reported that the country 's forests are being destroyed at the " alarming " rate of 47,500 hectares per annum . |
| 12 | for the past ten he 's dominated the world of barefoot … this weekend … he skies in the British national Championships which are being held at the Cirencester Club in the Cotswold water park … |
| 13 | In-Service Training day fees are being held at the same cost for the third year running , despite inflation and a probable increase in the cost of premises for Q.T. days . |
| 14 | However it is not just the press that 's causing Parker difficulties — the company 's personal computer , mid-range and networking arms are all happy to explain how they are perfectly capable of running enterprise-wide applications , and the company 's most swingeing cuts are being aimed at the Enterprise Systems division . |
| 15 | Of the over three hundred entries , 30 short-listed by the assessors have been on display in Glasgow 's Princes Square , and are being shown at the RIBA in London until 3 March . |
| 16 | Celebrating colour : 70 years after the Scottish Colourists held their first joint exhibition in London , paintings by Peploe , Hunter , Cadell and Fergusson are being shown at the MacRobert Gallery , Stirling University , writes Allen Wright . |
| 17 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 18 | I 'll be talking in a few moments time about aviation travel and the risks and , indeed , the trends that are being reflected at the present time , but erm before we move to that let's just think about those of us who perhaps have decided we wo n't go abroad . |
| 19 | The results are being processed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , California . |
| 20 | If you are being bullied at the moment you will know how completely hurtful and upsetting it can be . |
| 21 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 22 | We ha we have to look at the environmental consequences , you stick a barrage that size across erm a large er river system you 've got to ask what happens upstream erm and of course Bristol for example is a port , how to get the ships in and out is another problem but er these are being considered at the moment and there 's quite a lot of mo money going into , into studies but no commitment yet as to actually , to actually build it . |
| 23 | Books on floppy disk are being targeted at the business market , where there are multitudes of personal computers in use . |
| 24 | Hundreds of jobs are being axed at the government 's listening station GCHQ . |
| 25 | Up to 200 jobs are being axed at the Granada TV Rental service centre in Kirkby . |
| 26 | Symantec Corp has announced that Russian language Time Line 5.0 and Russian language Q&A are now shipping : both new products are being produced at the Kazansky Kombinat Programnykh Produktov — Software Products Integrated Works — in Kazan , Tatarstan , an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation . |
| 27 | The covers are being produced at the moment and I have asked Margaret Lockhart at CPU to get estimates for copying the contents and combining with the cover and binding so that this can be done a.s.a.p after the September Social Work Committee . |
| 28 | I hobbled my shameful way from First Buttress North on Lundy as the sun 's last rays winked over the darkening sea ( and last orders for food were being called at the island 's only pub ) after tumbling from the very last move of the 90ft first pitch of Road Runner . |
| 29 | In this regard , the ISS proposals for units and unit credits were consonant with other changes in secondary schools which were being developed at the same time : graded assessment , where the initial belief that it was simply a matter of devising achievement tests soon gave way to much more fundamental re-thinking about allied development work on curriculum content and teaching method ; and also work on profiles/records of achievement . |
| 30 | His self-image and his idealism were being threatened at the anvil of reality . |