Example sentences of "be [v-ing] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |
| 2 | Two weeks after the premature birth of her fourth child , Eleanor Adams-Robinson , Britain 's finest female , ultra-runner , is back on the road and expects to be competing at the European 100K Championships in Holland in September . |
| 3 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 4 | wo n't even be eating at the Chinese . |
| 5 | I know one thing I 'll not be eating at the buffet . |
| 6 | ‘ Faye and Bill will be eating at the hospital , but I imagine Belinda will want lunch once the room is ready . |
| 7 | CLACTON knew they would be struggling at the weigh-in when they entertained Felixstowe in the first round of the Turner Cup and Inter Club Trophy . |
| 8 | it 's got to pay off , because he wo n't be struggling at the end of this year to be trying to read and write , he will of achieved that |
| 9 | He and two other award-winning chefs from Trinidad and St Lucia will be cooking at the hotel during Caribbean Food Festival . |
| 10 | Maybe fifty years from now , everybody 'll be laughing at the Impressionists ! |
| 11 | He will be laughing at the client behind his back . |
| 12 | The mixture of cheap jokes and pretentious philosophising becomes increasingly hard to stomach , however , and there are far too many moments when it is not clear whether you are supposed to be laughing at the characters or taking them seriously . |
| 13 | In addition the rights must still be subsisting at the date of the court 's order ( Kirkwood v Johnson ( 1979 ) 38 P & CR 392 ) . |
| 14 | Many take the view that there should be timetabling at the start of legislation to enable it to be seen that Members are dealing with all parts of legislation from the word go . |
| 15 | New shoots will already be appearing at the base of many herbs , and marjoram and mints respond well to this treatment . |
| 16 | Sarah Spencer of the Rue Conti Jazz Band is one of many musicians who 'll be appearing at the Farnham Maltings All-Day Jazz Festival on Sunday , May 10th . |
| 17 | The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment . |
| 18 | They would n't be knocking at the door tonight , nor any other night so long as she was careful . |
| 19 | The youthful trio of Scott Booth , Duncan Ferguson and Stephen Wright are all acknowledged , meanwhile , to be knocking at the door of opportunity with a greater urgency than most — apart from the indisposed Eoin Jess . |
| 20 | It seemed for the barest fraction of an instant that a smile might be knocking at the underside of that granite jaw . |
| 21 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 22 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 23 | My brother and I would imagine all manner of things to be lurking at the top , from demons ' castles to wizards and fairies . |
| 24 | He had dropped down on to one knee and with head bowed seemed to be pushing at the trolley before him , which for some reason had taken on an obstinate immobility . |
| 25 | He wondered what had happened to handsome Georgie , the boy he was supposed to be meeting at the pub on the night of the murder . |
| 26 | They will be meeting at the beginning of April . |
| 27 | Whom did you say you were supposed to be meeting at the airport ? |
| 28 | You will not be flirting at the kitchen door with the milkman and the coalman , and Matey will not be chasing you for doing so . ’ |
| 29 | Over the next few days I shall be looking at the Activity Book and Video Guide again in detail with our designer Phil Hall and then , with the stills from Michael Keefe , shall be able to send you a revised schedule . |
| 30 | In this book we will be looking at the level at which facilities are provided in electronic hardware , as they might be seen by a system programmer about to implement the most basic software on the computer . |