Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 32 | As she slowly regained strength , Julia began to be able to think of things beyond her own physical state , and whenever David came to see her she urged him to tell her what had been happening at the trial . |
| 33 | There were also significant correlations with the actual accident statistics , r(1064)=0.142 , average weekday traffic flow , r(1064)=0.236 , accident estimate , r(1064)=0.278 , the time spent at the junction , r(1064)=0.246 , the number of vehicles visible in the film , r(1064)=0.201 , and the average speed at the junction , r(1064)=-0.118 , all of which are to a large degree measures of how much would actually have been happening at the junction . |
| 34 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 35 | ‘ Have you been listening at the door , Edgar ? ’ asked Catherine coldly . |
| 36 | Robert could not have said why , but he had the strong impression that the engineering master , too , had been listening at the door . |
| 37 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 38 | of the people had been smoking at the meeting . |
| 39 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 40 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 41 | So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy . |
| 42 | All the dealers who habitually haunt Sothebys salerooms have been looking at the furniture and glassware and silver . |
| 43 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 44 | AS a third part of a nanny share I have been looking at the law and the availability of Liability Insurance . |
| 45 | Thus far I have , in the main , been looking at the problem in the context of a conflict between parents and the minor , either the minor consenting and the parents refusing consent or the minor refusing consent and the parents giving it . |
| 46 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
| 47 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 48 | Marketing chiefs ‘ have been looking at the mathematics and have worked out that volume counts , ’ says Cunningham , pointing to Unix 's one million a year run rate against the huge base of Windows users — increasing at one million a month — many of which will be targeted for NT . |
| 49 | MEANWHILE , back at the ranch , Michael Murray , a banker , Ian MacLaurin , chairman of Tesco , the TCCB accountant , Brian Downin , the promotional and marketing man , and three others , including one isolated first-class cricketer , have been looking at the structure of the first-class game and the counties ' verdict will be known by the time you read this . |
| 50 | As the charity Oxfam moves into its fiftieth year , Central News South has been looking at the work it does away from the headlines of war and natural disaster . |
| 51 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 52 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 53 | Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen . |
| 54 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 55 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |
| 56 | The Centre has been looking at the productivity record of profit-sharing and non-profit-sharing firms , and the extent to which Japanese experience supports the idea that profit-sharing is a defence against stagflation . |
| 57 | ‘ I 've been looking at the basin where the sewage tank used to be . ’ |
| 58 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 59 | I have been looking at the Opposition amendment . |
| 60 | No other foreigners are training at the moment . |