Example sentences of "is [v-ing] at the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is raining at the moment and it 's gon na be wet and windy but quite mild for the rest of the day . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | Something is gathering at the edge of the meadow . |
| 6 | This Sunday Kenneth is competing at the BSAD senior athletics championships to be held at Monkton Stadium . |
| 7 | , 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 ! |
| 8 | So if it is happening at club level you can guarantee it is happening at the top . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 'So let's look at the current problems first-what is happening at the moment ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Because we need that new rule what is happening at the moment ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ What is happening at the DVLA is happening in all civil service jobs in Wales . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Similarly , IPCC is looking at the possibility that sulphate pollution in the northern hemisphere is reflecting the sun 's heat and retarding global warming — another case where pollution control could raise fresh problems . |
| 22 | The Commission , for example , is looking at the price differentials of the same car models in different member states — a campaign which CA initiated many years ago . |
| 23 | It is looking at the relationship between share prices and inflation adjusted accounts . |
| 24 | Word-processing and the development of the written language Clive Opie , Lecturer in Education ( Computer Studies ) , has launched a project during the present session which is looking at the development of the written language of ten year olds using word-processors . |
| 25 | Another group is looking at the development of new modules to add to the current specifications for the general SVQs in care . |
| 26 | This project is looking at the way in which plant-breeding at public sector institutes in Scotland , Wales and England has been influenced by various interest groups : government ( via the Agricultural Research Council ) , the private sector ( including farmers ' organisations and seed companies ) , and the academic community . |
| 27 | He made the claim while giving evidence to the Employment Select Committee , which is looking at the way the closure programme was handled . |
| 28 | Everyone is looking at the floor , the wall , anywhere . |
| 29 | Sefa-Dedeh is looking at the hydration properties of legumes with the idea of developing a variety that takes less time . |
| 30 | The major part of their enquiry is looking at the income to which a priest , be he active or retired , is entitled and whether when taken together with other sources there is a liability to tax arising on that income . |