Example sentences of "is [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAMAS AND THE PAPAS vocalist John Phillips is recovering at the University Of California , Los Angeles Medical Centre from a recent liver transplant . |
| 2 | Welcome back : A young wild deer is recovering at an animal rescue centre after having a leg amputated . |
| 3 | I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her . |
| 4 | Conclusion : so far , the economy is contracting at a pace that is remarkably similar to America 's two deepest post-war recessions . |
| 5 | It is raining at the moment and it 's gon na be wet and windy but quite mild for the rest of the day . |
| 6 | So , viewers at home , do not hesitate , if you have even the slightest piece of useful data , hook up that modem and call , in complete confidence , our unmonitored SnitchLine on the number that is flashing at the bottom of your screen … |
| 7 | Something is gathering at the edge of the meadow . |
| 8 | This Sunday Kenneth is competing at the BSAD senior athletics championships to be held at Monkton Stadium . |
| 9 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 10 | Moreover , this is occurring at a time when few resources are available to enable them to deal with increased numbers . |
| 11 | If the bank bond is trading at a discount to the government bond of more than 5.61 ( YTM of more than 1.14 per cent ) , then the bank bond is cheap relative to the government bond . |
| 12 | An Olympic walker uses more energy than a jogger moving at the same speed , because he is walking at a speed where his muscles would use less energy if they were operating a spring than if moving a pendulum . |
| 13 | And yet this is happening at a moment when the leaders in question stand exceptionally low in public esteem . |
| 14 | , whose voice is well known to customers will still be in touch with what is happening at the company through husband , a shift supervisor — who can beat her years of service by seven ! |
| 15 | So if it is happening at club level you can guarantee it is happening at the top . |
| 16 | It is , indeed , a great deal easier to point out the irrelevance of much of what is happening at the moment than to have confidence in any particular alternative . |
| 17 | What is , what is happening at the moment is although they ca n't afford the money for the full , for the full treatment they are making an allocation of money to improve matters round , round that area , which will be er , cos I , I told them that some of the pensioners were , w walking round by the bankment , it 's pouring of rain , which is perfectly true and that er the engineer should go round and see for himself and plus the fact how many of these people ever travel by bus , or do they always go by car , no , and also I brought up about bus shelters and all those sort of things , but any way , there will be some improvements for the bus station in the future . |
| 18 | 'So let's look at the current problems first-what is happening at the moment ? |
| 19 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 20 | He gives a running commentary on what is happening at the moment in the game but also gives a players history where he thinks it will help the reader to understand to a fuller extent what is happening in the play . |
| 21 | Because we need that new rule what is happening at the moment ? |
| 22 | It is hard to remember , unless something similar is happening at the time , exactly how strongly people feel at moments of great political crisis , how they are carried away by conviction of the rightness of their own side and by contempt and hatred of the other . |
| 23 | In James they are a further indication of the ramifications of consciousness : past memories , future expectations and hypothetical suppositions are as much implicated in the would-be tutor 's predicament as what is happening at the time . |
| 24 | ‘ What is happening at the DVLA is happening in all civil service jobs in Wales . |
| 25 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 26 | Such structures also seem to provide a kind of elementary momentum in periods where a discipline is in the doldrums , and not a great deal is happening at the research level . |
| 27 | ‘ I have had a long chat with Stephen and told him I know that he is knocking at the door of the full international side , but I would rather he played and helped out in the match at Tannadice than did nothing at Ibrox . ’ |
| 28 | Nobody in marketing is looking at a plus or minus two per cent — they 're looking at trends in the longer term . ’ |
| 29 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 30 | Moreover , the cross-curricular Working Party which is looking at a variety of themes including Economic Awareness , will also make demands on the support of the local business community . |