Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | erm it 's difficult to say , but erm again that 's something they 're looking at over the next couple of weeks , but perhaps along last year 's lines — they should n't really be any higher than last year . |
2 | As the fuel prices come down they should n't have to surcharge , but again that 's something they 'll be looking at over the next couple of weeks . |
3 | part of the area that we would be looking at for the new settlement . |
4 | Everything is smaller down there — including their eyeballs — to the same extent-so the eye still gets filled up with what it 's looking at in the normal way . |
5 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
6 | Thus , the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) stated in 1985 that ‘ the best assumption for planning purposes is for a continuing high level of unemployment throughout the period ( 1985–89 ) and for a level of long-term unemployment remaining at around the one million mark . ’ |
7 | Four Greenpeace volunteers attempting to take samples for radioactivity testing at in the French nuclear testing ground of Muroroa atoll were arrested by French commandos on Dec. 11 . |
8 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
9 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
10 | It is this that I was hinting at in the previous chapter , when I referred to the queen ant as the central data bank . |
11 | They were working at about the same time as Turner and Constable and shared those artists ’ concerns in relation to painting directly from nature , which Dahl described as Naturvei — nature 's Way . |
12 | It 's what we 've been working at for the last three years . |