Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 2 | He 's supposed to be staying at a children 's home , but he spent last night in police cells after being arrested for the thirtieth time — for breaching bail conditions . |
| 3 | The Government is believed to be looking at a switch of aid funding from the North and Scotland to give the South a boost . |
| 4 | He seemed to be looking at a picture only he could see . |
| 5 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 6 | This whole idea of a subsistence economy is something I 'm not really , I 'm not really sure about it because erm what , what would exactly , you 're saying that if everybody was the same then erm then you 're somehow necessarily going to be producing at a subsistence level so erm so er and so it 's , so if you can only extract surplus by effectively taking it off something given to others . |
| 7 | ON A Sunday morning , the average Tory voter is as likely to be queuing at a supermarket check-out as at the communion rail . |
| 8 | At one stage the waters of Oulton Broad were reported to be rising at a rate of eight inches an hour . |
| 9 | Not only that , but the beams appeared to be coming at a faster rate now — more than once a second . |
| 10 | Both imports and exports were shown to be growing at a similar rate . |
| 11 | Both imports and exports were shown to be growing at a similar rate . |
| 12 | The 28-year-old is thought to be working at a vineyard in Teviso . |
| 13 | We 've got Gerry Addams who er wanted earlier in the week if we were to believe what seemed now like to be sitting at a table discussing peace , there he is carrying a bomber 's coffin . |