Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 8 | THE P&O flag has been flying at Table Mountain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Watkins says Bill Joy 's Sun Labs team has been looking at micro-kernel technologies under the auspices of Spring , Sun 's blue-sky , rolling research effort . |
| 12 | Out of sheer perversity , the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him . |
| 13 | The number of people who die from the habit is increasing every year , and a special conference has been looking at ways of tackling the problem . |
| 14 | More importantly , any disclosures made in relation to this warranty will highlight fairly accurately whether the Business has been trading at a loss since the Balance Sheet Date — which if true might seriously affect the Purchaser 's willingness to buy the Business . |
| 15 | In the 1980s , aggregate Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) has been roughly static , and per capita GDP has been falling at a time when net aid flows have been rising . |
| 16 | Population ageing is operating at two distinct levels : societal and within the older age groups itself . |
| 17 | Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled . |
| 18 | The group had been drinking at a nearby pub in Uckington , Glos . |
| 19 | Mina and Kāli are taking their offering for the festival to the house where the dhāmis have been dancing at night . |
| 20 | Rabbit has been trading at a loss — last year , net losses amounted to $2.6m , down from $3.3m losses in the previous year , on revenues down 20% at just under $7m ; for the first quarter of this year , losses were reduced to $248,000 , from $800,000 , on sales down 13% at $1.6m . |
| 21 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 22 | All this time his friend has been tugging at my shoulder . |
| 23 | ‘ Not only has Drayton Asia 's investment performance been disappointing , its share price has been trading at a discount to net asset value ranging from 26.8 per cent to 9.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . |
| 24 | And what would an ordinary person have been earning at Helliwells ? |
| 25 | For over 2 months now , 1,200 tons of apples a day have been arriving at the Bulmers Cider factory in Hereford . |
| 26 | And PC Week has been looking at the pre-release development kit for Windows NT , shipping this week , and finds that the new NT File System is not yet complete , and neither are the security features that are tied to it . |
| 27 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 28 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 29 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 30 | According to the price inflation version of the Phillips curve , we must of necessity infer that the economy had been operating at a level of demand which was consistent with an unemployment rate U * ; in Figure 6.6 . |