Example sentences of "is [v-ing] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conclusion : so far , the economy is contracting at a pace that is remarkably similar to America 's two deepest post-war recessions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Moreover , this is occurring at a time when few resources are available to enable them to deal with increased numbers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And yet this is happening at a moment when the leaders in question stand exceptionally low in public esteem . |
| 7 | Nobody in marketing is looking at a plus or minus two per cent — they 're looking at trends in the longer term . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the three pioneers are readying themselves for a surge of interest : Marcos has appointed its Coventry engine supplier , JE Engineering , as its first distributor , Westfield is looking at a trio of dealers and Caterham plans to appoint half a dozen Rover distributors as service agents for the K-series engine that will power its first ‘ turn-key ’ car . |
| 11 | Sometimes there are the most startling surprises when we come to realise how someone else is looking at a situation which , to us , could only be perceived in one way . |
| 12 | The supermarket group is looking at a site occupied by the Caldaire bus company . |
| 13 | The supermarket group is looking at a site occupied by the town 's Caldaire bus company . |
| 14 | For now the Council is looking at a number of ways to save money , if they DO decide to close the pool , these might be the only swimmers left later this summer . |
| 15 | If the motor is operating at a stepping rate f then the excitation cycle repeats at a frequency 1/4 and therefore the angular frequency of the excitation cycle is : During each excitation cycle the rotor moves one tooth pitch ( =2/p ) in a time 2/w , so the average rotor velocity is given by : Integrating this equation with respect to time : where 6 is a constant of integration known as the load angle . |
| 16 | Similarly , broad money is growing at a rate of just 6.1 per cent against 10.9 per cent a year ago . |
| 17 | Diagnostic radiology is growing at a rate of between 5 and 15 per cent per year in many technically developed countries which , together with the rapid growth rate expected in developing countries , will lead to substantial increases in the global dose commitment in the future . |
| 18 | It is growing at a rate of around a billion every 12 years . |
| 19 | British and German inflation rates have moved together , but the German economy is growing at a rate of 3.5 per cent. , while the British economy is in recession and shrinking by 2.5 per cent . |
| 20 | Currently ( 1993 ) there are some twenty million users worldwide of the most commonly used electronic network , Internet , a figure that is growing at a rate of ten percent per month . |
| 21 | The latest figures show that steady growth continued over the last three months and that as a whole , the economy is growing at a rate of two and a half percent a year . |
| 22 | Mr Millan is speaking at a lunch to be held at the SAS Royal Hotel in Brussels to celebrate the new venture , which is the first official joint undertaking of the two law societies [ which represent solicitors in their two jurisdictions ] . |
| 23 | The Prince of Wales is speaking at a housing conference in Glasgow . |
| 24 | When a human being does X in order to do Y , the achieving of Y is his reason for doing X. When an animal does X in order to do Y , he does not do X for a reason , even though he is aiming at a goal in doing so . |
| 25 | If the operator is in an aircraft that is flying at a height of 10000 m he can control a Telemine from a range of 500 km . |
| 26 | When the rotor is moving at a speed d/d the induced voltages in the phase windings are equal to the rate of change of flux linkages : So the complete phase A circuit model includes the induced voltage A , which opposes the applied phase voltage A. Details of the induced voltage are not usually supplied by the stepping motor manufacturer , but fortunately the voltage can be measured experimentally . |
| 27 | But this market is expanding at a rate of at least five percent and predictions and calculations show that this is far in e in excess of this base rate . |
| 28 | Here again , the responsib ility for children is maintaine d and the housewif e must be prepared to interrupt whatever she is doing at a moment 's notice if her children wake up and require her attention . |
| 29 | MANGANESE Bronze , the black-cab maker , fell from a £287,000 profit to a £492,000 pre-tax loss in the six months to end-January , due largely to losses at its Darlington iron foundry , which is closing at a cost of £1.7m . |
| 30 | In the simplest systems , where only one program is running at a time , this means merely expediting the changeover from one program to the next . |