Example sentences of "are [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Such simulations , based on observed system behaviour , can tell us how things might have been if we are looking at unrepeatable , past , events or how the system might behave in the future , if the transition probabilities remain unaltered .
32 He said : ‘ We are looking at frightening levels of loss which an independent company could not sustain . ’
33 In Ujong Kulon , Indonesia , we are looking at novel microorganisms which might be useful to man .
34 There are farmers who with the existing lack of any political support are looking at different avenues to improve their profits or even make a profit .
35 We are looking at another reorganisation of the NHS in the northern region with all the demoralisation and uncertainty that creates .
36 Mr Phil Lenton , assistant divisional officer for Nupe , said : ‘ We are looking at another reorganisation of the NHS in the Northern region with all the demoralisation and uncertainty that creates .
37 When the idea of teleworking first came up , there was a fear of poor pay and long hours , but with this scheme we are looking at proper terms and conditions .
38 A spokesman for the bank told The New York Times : ‘ We are looking at several options .
39 We are looking at several opportunities and will benefit from our involvement with the quarrying side of Wimpey Minerals which has always been involved in marketing its products on a free-market basis , ’ says John Chance .
40 Borough council officers are looking at several ways of helping disabled motorists to shop in the town once High Row and Skinnergate become off bounds to them on March 29 .
41 Distance has no meaning when we are looking at 125 miles so we look at time ; we will paddle for four hours and then have a five minute break .
42 We are looking at Organic growing by people who have been there and really know the problems .
43 ‘ We are looking at voluntary redundancy , early retirement , job swaps , but if we ca n't do it by the end of the year we will have to look at compulsory redundancy . ’
44 Rather we are looking at those beliefs , supported by significant power bases within each bloc , which have won out in the political process in the past seventy years and still appear to be doing so , in some cases with much decreased vitality .
45 Although some waste minimisation projects are already being commissioned , businesses are looking at more .
46 When you are actually sort of writing er , say if you are , when you are doing your project or doing your work it 's not just sufficient to say always T ratio is greater than two , therefore , it 's statistically significant , you must calculate the er correct critical value you use , right , for th for each T ratio and also if you are looking at any diagnostics or looking at the significance of the regression which is an F statistic right you must give the five percent or ten percent whichever you choose .
47 erm we have a welfare state , which erm ensures that very few people are living at absolute poverty — you do have shoes to wear , you do have some sort of food to eat — which was n't necessarily the case in the nineteen thirties — and people have had different education and training , their lives are very different .
48 Since the first extended reach well , export shipments which averaged some 60,000 barrels a day ( b/d ) , are peaking at 83,000 b/d .
49 It seems to me that they are describing at first hand a world made up of physical materials similar to those which we can see and touch , with an invisible ( to most of us ) non-material life force much like the ether superimposed on it and within it .
50 The shares in the composite index are selling at 16 times prospective earnings .
51 Shares are selling at 23 times earnings , their highest since 1926 .
52 We are waiting at both ends like a pair of bookends and I get impatient and ask , ‘ Who is this ? ’
53 Most estimates suggest that such urban centres are growing at five or six per cent a year .
54 The western American states are in on the act , too — Oregon , California and Alaska are growing at seven per cent — twice the rate of the remainder of the country .
55 For example , VCR products are growing at three times the rate of other audiovisual products ( Ohmae 1985 ) .
56 He said that he and Karen could have , he said at the present prices he and this Karen that he 's , that left him er they , they could have had erm a place together because some one bedroom flats , two bedroom flats around are going at thirty five thousand , thirty one .
57 But 630 jobs are going at British Aerospace .
58 In a design of this kind , where the flowers and leaves are built up in layers , you should try to look at the outline that will be visible ( in this case , the outer leaves ) , and make sure that they are lying at pleasing angles .
59 It is understood they are staying at another holiday camp in Towyn .
60 All we are expecting at this stage is modest growth in this half year .
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