Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 250 officers and men from the Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Engineers , already equipped with their familiar United Nations blue berets , have been gathering at the Army 's Air Movement Centre at South Cerney in Gloucestershire . |
| 2 | Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled . |
| 3 | Jane had indeed been hinting at the opportunity for her husband 's murder , but she could not admit as much . |
| 4 | Thus Castro was in dire need of a Soviet commitment to preserve his revolution , and in a speech given to the United Nations on 26 September 1960 the Cuban leader may have been hinting at the price he might have been willing to pay when he said , ‘ We understand how terrible the subordination of the economy and life in general of nations to foreign economic power is . |
| 5 | We 've been knocking at the door in four defeats . |
| 6 | While Jessica and Karen had been helping with the salmon mousse , the dark-eyed alien had been lurking at the gate … |
| 7 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 8 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry I 'm late , sir , ’ he said , ‘ but terrible things have been happening at the dairy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Have you been listening at the door , Edgar ? ’ asked Catherine coldly . |
| 15 | Robert could not have said why , but he had the strong impression that the engineering master , too , had been listening at the door . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | of the people had been smoking at the meeting . |
| 18 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 19 | So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy . |
| 20 | All the dealers who habitually haunt Sothebys salerooms have been looking at the furniture and glassware and silver . |
| 21 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 22 | The faint-object camera has also been looking at the remnants of the supernova which excited astronomers in 1987 . |
| 23 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 24 | AS a third part of a nanny share I have been looking at the law and the availability of Liability Insurance . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
| 27 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
| 28 | The tank provides what is known as a ‘ restricted environment ’ and researchers have been looking at the benefits of Restricted Environment Stimulation therapy ( known as REST ) for almost 30 years . |
| 29 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 30 | 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 . |