Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] at the " 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 Foodmaster has been running at the BBC catering department for two years .
17 Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Twice a day for the best part of four decades a box has been arriving at the Palace containing the reports from British ambassadors overseas .
22 Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms .
23 He said , ‘ There 's been picketing at the Town Hall , some rioting , the blackshirts moved in .
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