Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's only looking at the pictures , he ca n't read really Eh what did you think of the dancing concert ? |
| 2 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 3 | Just as the smell of a ripe Camembert is only mouthwatering at the dinner table , the attraction of female odours is likely to depend on their context . |
| 4 | Unix System Labs is apparently looking at the Tiny 386BSD boot disk ( the one that 's been circulating in the academia , which derives from Bill Jolitz 's work and is not from Berkeley System Design Inc ) checking that it does n't infringe their property rights . |
| 5 | The book is also universally regarded as McGahern 's masterpiece , a view probably best expressed by playwright Tom Kilroy who described ‘ Amongst Women ’ as ‘ one of the most significant achievements in Irish fiction ’ and suggested that McGahern ‘ is obviously writing at the fullness of his power . ’ |
| 6 | London , of course , and our Amsterdam exhibition has been trading since the beginning of the year and the price increase is generally coming at the beginning of the season , which is more or less now for the parks , earlier for the exhibitions . |
| 7 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 8 | A special Home Office committee is already looking at the problem with orders to report back to Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke within the next few months . |
| 9 | Mrs Thatcher will have to be satisfied with the assurances she will receive from Mr Bush , who will tell her that , since defence cuts are politically inevitable , it is far better for modest and planned reductions to be proposed by his cabinet and the Pentagon than for swingeing cuts to be imposed by the US Congress , which is already chafing at the thought of the US budget deficit being deepened to pay for the defence of the wealthy Europeans . |
| 10 | I ca n't understand what he 's saying , but he 's just shouting at the lights and everything , like he 's real angry about summat . |
| 11 | No he 's just practising at the moment lovey he 's practising his swing but I agree if he stood that distance he would n't be able to hit the ball would he would you . |
| 12 | ‘ Personal development is , we believe of key importance to ensure that motivation is always running at a high level . |
| 13 | Tracie is still staying at the £750,000 house with the children while Davidson lives in hotel rooms . |
| 14 | ‘ County Durham 's constabulary has been increased since 1979 and the Home Office is still looking at the possibility of reallocating some of the 1,000 extra posts to the county , ’ he said . |
| 15 | This file should be updated to insert the following lines ( ensuring that DECNET is still running at the point when the commands will be executed ) : |
| 16 | In SYSHUTDWN.COM , insert the following lines ( ensuring that DECNET is still running at the point when the commands will be executed ) : |
| 17 | For many years Iceland and New Zealand have used geysers and aquifers to provide space and water heating and in Britain research work that began in 1973 on hot dry rock is still continuing at the Camborne School of Mines , Cornwall . |
| 18 | Cecil Moores has passed on , but John is still going at the age of 96 . |
| 19 | Secondly , as is well known , if average cost is still falling at the relevant output , marginal cost pricing leads to deficits . |
| 20 | I did n't see you , er all I 'm doing is like stopping at the end of the drive to light a fag up or something , she 's |
| 21 | It 's like looking at the mirror in n it ? |
| 22 | It is also looking at the interest being shown by producers in Yorkshire and Cumbria . |
| 23 | As well as ‘ reading ’ horizontally line one , it is also looking at the whole pattern at the same time . |
| 24 | Meantime Ing C Olivetti & Co — which has an interest in the ARM RISC via its 80% holding in Acorn Computers Plc , is developing its own personal communicator , but is also looking at the AT&T Hobbit , and may join the alliance with Eo ; its own product would be the next generation of the 2.2lbs Quaderno portable , which uses the 16MHz 8086-compatible NEC Corp V30HL chip . |
| 25 | Sheila Redmond is also looking at the possibility of arranging talks on the menopause for female employees . |
| 26 | For example infants should check that person being communicated with is also looking at the interesting object . |
| 27 | Former BAe executive Richard Hooke says he has been told Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers . |
| 28 | Mr Hooke says he has been told that Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers . |
| 29 | He is now investigating if leukaemia cases rose in Orkney and Shetland due to wartime incomers and is also looking at the effects of large construction projects in Britain in the post-war period . |
| 30 | Apart from using secondary material from the area , the investigator is also working at a more specific level in two or three societies contrasted with the western developed industrial world : on the one hand , the Soviet Union and the East European socialist world and on the other , the Muslim world . |