Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catering establishments of all types are constantly looking at ways of saving energy without reducing performance and there are a number of areas within the kitchen where such savings can be made . |
| 2 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |
| 3 | Cut-price food retailers are already sniping at supermarkets in continental Europe . |
| 4 | ‘ We are pleased to be able to help Living Earth continue its valuable work and we are already looking at ways of continuing our association , ’ said Mike Lynch . |
| 5 | Only a very few of the many references in the bibliography are earlier than 1979 yet undergraduates are already arriving at university with first-hand experience of videotext and expect their lecturers to know more ! |
| 6 | You 're presumably looking at people in other parts of the country ? |
| 7 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 8 | If you then start talking of building supermarkets whatever , then we 're obviously looking at thefts from supermarkets . |
| 9 | You 're just looking at words every day . |
| 10 | ‘ And while you 're still working at Number 10 , a touch of Caesar 's wife might be appropriate . ’ |
| 11 | they 're always shouting at people |
| 12 | Presumably if we 're now looking at commitment in the wider area of search which would draw in many additional parishes , I think in the Harrogate case er something like seven to eight additional parishes , er if we look at commitments there would we also need to revise the housing need figure as well ? |
| 13 | Hospitals are always working at near-capacity , so anything that upsets the balance automatically causes more strain . ’ |
| 14 | Emma acquires the greyhound while she and Charles are still living at Tostes : the time of early , inchoate stirrings of dissatisfaction within her ; the time of boredom and discontent , but not yet of corruption . |
| 15 | Yes , if you can , if you can recognise it , or if you 've got , or if , several members of erm , several students we had when I was on grocery at Camden , we had to , I think it was twenty eight on Saturday afternoon , they might have been on checkouts , well I mean , they 're still scheduled to my , I 'm saying out of that about four of them er , are still working at Camden full-time . |
| 16 | FORMER US Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan , who are both staying at Claridge 's in London 's Mayfair , had a private meeting with Lady Thatcher before she left for a visit to Indonesia . |
| 17 | ‘ I understand similar problems are also brewing at Anfield Cemetery . ’ |
| 18 | We are also looking at ways the team could actually carve up its own salary increases . |
| 19 | We are also looking at ways to create shadow share schemes or share options which will be available to all Gardner Merchant employees at a later date . ’ |
| 20 | Now his younger brother and sister are also studying at home . |
| 21 | Access problems are also emerging at Heptonstall Quarry where the bowling and social club have complained about climbers using their car park . |
| 22 | Oxford are also playing at Tranmere in the league next saturday … you can see highlights of the Swindon Town game on Central 's midweek sports special … and no Hereford fan should be missing from Edgar Street on Wednesday with Vinny Jones and the Crazy Gang in town … finally Swindon have put last season 's top scorer Craig Maskell up for sale … he wants first team football |
| 23 | Most refugees go to neighbouring countries , which are often living at subsistence levels themselves . |
| 24 | But if you were looking at their egos as well , er their whole personality had its defence disrupted , then of course , you may be able to see a bit more , because you are now looking at areas which are co both conscious and manifest themselves in all kinds of different ways . |
| 25 | But good though this record is , no system is perfect and accordingly the Church Commissioners and the Department of the Environment are now looking at ways in which the non-statutory public inquiries can be improved to become an even more effective forum for weighing all points of view in particularly difficult cases . |
| 26 | ‘ The county and borough authorities are now looking at ways of reducing the danger and congestion caused by buses and our proposals for dealing with this problem will be published later in the year . ’ |
| 27 | In this chapter we have , through our time travelling , been outside of our own world for some time now , so perhaps we are now looking at modernity with the eyes of a stranger coming home . |
| 28 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 29 | The police are now examining at total of thirty nine video tapes , from in-store security systems , and from members of the public who were filming in or near Milton Keynes shopping centre last week . |
| 30 | Several flights like these , some from Budapest and Vienna , are now arriving at Ben Gurion every week , their human cargoes eloquent testimony to the swelling numbers of Soviet Jewish emigrants and the vast changes that Mikhail Gorbachev 's policies have wrought in their homeland . |