Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time that anyone can remember , the Soviet Union has been buying at the London auction . |
| 2 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 3 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 4 | Daphne Hereward has been teaching at the Ghana Empire school in Accra since 1977 after a career devoted to classical and archaeological studies and teaching , in both university and school . |
| 5 | The playgroup , at Cam in Gloucestershire , has been meeting at the United Reform chapel in the village for 10 years . |
| 6 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |
| 7 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 8 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Centre has been looking at the productivity record of profit-sharing and non-profit-sharing firms , and the extent to which Japanese experience supports the idea that profit-sharing is a defence against stagflation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 13 | Our environment reporter Harriet Ryley has been looking at the changing attitude to what we throw away and how we deal with it . |
| 14 | A tradesman who has been ringing at the front door for several minutes gives up and goes away . |
| 15 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
| 16 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 21 | Foodmaster has been running at the BBC catering department for two years . |
| 22 | Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years . |
| 23 | He has been working at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow since 1980 , but has now decided to move to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the new year . |
| 24 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff . |
| 25 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | An agency spokesman said that with the exception of the tropical zones , depletion of the ozone layer has been occurring at a " significant " rate throughout the world . |
| 28 | As the minimum economic scale of production in the assembly plant has been decreasing , it has been increasing at the level of the firm for engineering , design and marketing . |
| 29 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 30 | 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 . |