Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , although Rampton-type surveys suggest that Asian pupils are performing as well as white pupils , there is growing evidence of wide variations in school achievement within the Asian communities : in particular , children of Bangladeshi origin appear to be achieving at much lower levels than other Asian groups ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Whom did you say you were supposed to be meeting at the airport ? |
| 3 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 4 | He wondered what had happened to handsome Georgie , the boy he was supposed to be meeting at the pub on the night of the murder . |
| 5 | I just , you know , some meant to be meeting at five past one |
| 6 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 7 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Bull cites one incident in which transmissions from a walkie-talkie caused a thermocouple to indicate — wrongly that part of a process plant supposed to be operating at 10°C had overheated to 200°C . |
| 10 | A spokesman said the hotel hoped to be operating at 55 per cent occupancy within its first year and up to 70 per cent within three to four years . |
| 11 | This was not the most logical of arguments , it would seem , if only because the Hudson recommendations were concerned with craft courses , while TEC and BEC , the latter of which in any case was only likely to be peripherally involved , were supposed to be operating at technician level . |
| 12 | It is also necessary for the firm to be operating at above minimum efficiency scale ( MES ) , the low point of the average cost curve . |
| 13 | Other travellers are reported to be gathering at Clee Hill in Shropshire . |
| 14 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
| 15 | Penelope walked slowly away from the house , then pretended to be locking at an empty house which was to be sold two doors away from where Rupert lived . |
| 16 | Lamb — who had the satisfaction to be batting at the end — responded , allegedly , by throwing the legal papers in the bin ! |
| 17 | The BMA 's Scottish secretary , Dr Vivienne Nathanson , questioned why the drive to improve health appeared to be stopping at Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 18 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 19 | This behaviour looks on the surface like a complex communication system , and the participants seem to be acting at least intelligently , even rationally . |
| 20 | And occasionally she did n't even seem to be acting at all . |
| 21 | ‘ But my chairman and vice-chairman have given me another year 's contract , and I 'm absolutely delighted to be staying at Nottingham Forest . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Their resentment focused on the way industry seemed to be benefiting at their expense . |
| 24 | Their resentment focused on the way industry seemed to be benefiting at their expense and they blamed the Finance Ministry 's favouritism towards industry for the plight — and the restiveness — of the peasantry . |
| 25 | It has to for it to be festering at the bottom ! |
| 26 | At the same time I thought how few people , apart from Eliot , could have sat and telephoned from that desk : meanwhile , reflecting that it were more proper to appear to be contemplating the exterior than to be glancing at Eliot 's papers scattered in front of me . |
| 27 | Maggie 's temper and training did n't seem to be helping at all at the moment . |
| 28 | He had dropped down on to one knee and with head bowed seemed to be pushing at the trolley before him , which for some reason had taken on an obstinate immobility . |
| 29 | It 's them you need to be looking at . |
| 30 | We are only fifty million people in this country and if you 're going to run a decent-size business at all , you need to be looking at the horizon . |