Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ And while you 're still working at Number 10 , a touch of Caesar 's wife might be appropriate . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Hospitals are always working at near-capacity , so anything that upsets the balance automatically causes more strain . ’ |
| 6 | Now his younger brother and sister are also studying at home . |
| 7 | Most refugees go to neighbouring countries , which are often living at subsistence levels themselves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Oh I 'm just looking at bottom of my bag there , there was , there was bills from Gateway , that was from last year . |
| 11 | I told you I 'm still living at home , right ? |
| 12 | A pupil may reach level 6 in Attainment Target 1 but only be partially achieving at level 5 in Attainment Targets 2 and 3 . |
| 13 | She had a strongly defined concept of what was Real and what was not , did William 's nan , and some people were just playing at life . |
| 14 | At a time when standards of living were rapidly rising at home , our goods abroad , manufactured with the disproportionate vulnerability of too many man-hours at high wage rates , became unattractively priced . |
| 15 | The boys , of course , were still living at home , Arthur working as a plumber 's apprentice and Ted and Sam still at school . |
| 16 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 17 | In talking about USE and CHOICE in Chapter 1 we were implicitly looking at language from the author 's point of view . |
| 18 | Also , the findings for the causal task indicate that even five-year-olds have some knowledge of the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning , in that their mean score is considerably higher than the score ( of 8 ) which one would expect if they were simply responding at chance level . |
| 19 | In their eyes the British were not adjusting sensitively enough to the emergence of potent radical Arab forces , and were therefore putting at risk Western interests and influence in this region . |
| 20 | He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman . |
| 21 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 22 | This is where we had some sort of car this is just looking at hardness of water actually , but this is , you 've got the C O three |
| 23 | In terms of the A nineteen south , that is already operating at capacity . |
| 24 | That accident victim , trucker Harry Martinson , is still recovering at home in Hatfield Road , Ipswich , following the accident in April . |
| 25 | Er I mean if he were responsive and would work and would try things for himself but it , it 's , it 's like hacking at concrete with a knife . |
| 26 | The second working party , set up by the General Practitioner Board , is also looking at training but within the wider context of what the future holds for small accountancy practices . |
| 27 | Mrs Marcos agreed long ago to fly her husband 's body direct to Laoag , but she is now hinting at defiance . |
| 28 | He is now recovering at home in Barnard Castle after three operations and celebrated his 50th birthday on Monday . |
| 29 | He received a cut nose and bruised his arms and is now recovering at home . |
| 30 | Unemployed Jason , 20 , is now convalescing at home in Westminster Road , Darlington , with girlfriend Corinna Howard and friends . |