Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [to-vb] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities are struggling to maintain provision at a time when they should be expanding efforts to meet the needs of this sector of the population . |
| 2 | Colombian and other diplomats at the Organisation of American States were furious at the legalistic wranglings the US delegation has been using to buy time at the OAS meetings in Washington . |
| 3 | and er from there we er head for , we 're going to see Dave at Gillhead and then we 're coming home |
| 4 | Er we 're going to take questions at the end er the camera there is for internal use only and at the end we 'll hand out copies of the slides to anyone who wants them . |
| 5 | You wo n't , as far as we 're having to buy coal at that price . |
| 6 | The Labour Party insists that self-governing trusts ( hospitals which choose to opt out of health-authority control and manage their own affairs ) are in fact opting out of the NHS altogether ; and that doctors who control their own budgets are going to turn queue-jumping at hospitals into a business practice . |
| 7 | Theologically , if we are going to accept cremation at all ( given our belief in bodily resurrection ) should we not at least commit the ashes to a grave and not scatter them to the winds ? |
| 8 | Now that some manufacturers , including Citroen and Vauxhall , are beginning to list diesels at the same price as petrol versions , the sums may swing even further in the diesel 's favour . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ This broken promise is a kick in the teeth for football and all those who are striving to achieve safety at our football grounds . ’ |
| 10 | General secretary Tony Dubbins said : ‘ We are continuing to make progress at local level following the breakthrough with the Lawson Mardon Group . |
| 11 | Steel-casting companies in Spain which in Britain would have been bankrupted are continuing to offer steel-castings at artificially low prices , and indeed inefficient capacity and production is not only being maintained but is even being purposely created ; while in France the producers of steel-castings are benefiting from soft loans from mostly state-owned banks . |
| 12 | Certain LEAs do indeed seem to have reduced their overall awards budgets this year , but most are continuing to grant awards at about the same levels as in previous years . |
| 13 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 14 | I pay the rent , the salaries , the insurance , this , that and the other , and meanwhile I 'm having to sell stuff at great losses . |
| 15 | Detectives believe she had been intending to meet friends at the bar but ended up drinking alone . |
| 16 | Scholars were seeking to measure attitudes at a high level , and to infer from this different accounts or models of the personality by reference to which behaviour could be explained . |
| 17 | There , in a raised garden overlooking the drive , and sheltered by umbrella pines , the servants were waiting to serve food at little tables scattered around haphazardly . |
| 18 | Her legs were threatening to give way at the knees . |
| 19 | If , for example , we were trying to explain attendance at non-selective schools , the d for the service class would have been 0.281 - 0.763 , or -0.482 ; the magnitude of effect would not have altered but the sign would have been reversed . |
| 20 | They 're trying to er knock or they were trying to knock News at Ten on the head . |
| 21 | Jersey assistant chief officer Barry Simpson said last night : ‘ We were trying to trace Roderick at a contact 's home in Wimbledon . |
| 22 | Thirsk Lions are hoping to raise £5,400 at a garden party at Thirsk Hall on May 17 for a blood matching machine for Northallerton 's Friarage Hospital . |
| 23 | ‘ They are trying to sling mud at me to cover up the defeat by Peru , ’ he said , rising to his own defence and pointing a brave if belated finger back at the SFA . |
| 24 | FOR months now I have been trying to contain excitement at the thought of the compact disc . |
| 25 | ‘ In terms of ideas , I had been trying to produce pictures at that time which had a very flat , two-dimensional feel to them , being torn between what I think are two different ends of photography , but which both have that quality . |
| 26 | Metal Office Equipment Limited , which has operated from rented premises for about ten years , is looking to develop land at Chiswick Avenue , Mildenhall . |
| 27 | And one of the prime moves for all age worship when it first started , was to say , you know , if Christian education is going to take place at other times , than on a Sunday , then what do we do together , for all ages , in worship . |
| 28 | The launch is going to take place at central police station |
| 29 | The first pilot residential course has been planned for the twenty first of February , and it 's going to take place at C O D at Donnington , and subject to that course working out successfully , erm , the employment service in the army will be working on this , the employment service department asked to deliver the army to post six more courses erm , next year . |
| 30 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |