Example sentences of "now [v-ing] at the " in BNC.

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1 The Boulby potash mine in North Yorkshire , working Upper Permian Zechstein evaporites at a depth of 1100m , began production in 1974 and is now producing at the rate of 770000t/y KCl .
2 That purchase added around 3 percentage points to its share of the liquid milk market , taking it to 16 per cent , where it is now snapping at the heels of the second-largest operator , Dairy Crest , the marketing subsidiary of the MMB , which claims a market share of around 17 per cent .
3 When the small head nodded acceptance Agnes , now looking at the boy , said , ‘ A ha'p'orth or a pennorth ? ’
4 Many schools are now looking at the whole issue of profiling and records of achievement .
5 We are now looking at the idea of team appraisals instead of appraising individuals .
6 He is now looking at the win as the foundation to his future .
7 Edward was now looking at the river with great intensity ; he leaned forward a little , as though to see something better .
8 As we increase our confidence , right , so if we are ninety five percent confident we are now looking at the five percent significance level T rat er the critical value rate rises to two point zero point two and if you want to be even more confident , to be ninety nine percent confident about our inference , you look at the one percent level , right , and that has a T ratio of two point seven five .
9 Spanish and Norwegian skippers were now looking at the possibilities such unusual fish offered .
10 And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ?
11 Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going and Courtaulds is now looking at the possibility of helping them design a fibre spinning rig .
12 It is this age group which is now growing at the fastest rate and the support of the sometimes frail ‘ old ’ is an important policy issue .
13 To our church came such spiritual giants as Rev Reginald Barlett of Samoa , and the South Seas , Miss Mabel Shaw of Mbershi , whose adopted daughter is helping with modern Zambia , a housewoman from Dr Ida Scudder 's hospital at Velore , central India and a missionary from China who knew about the conditions there and in Hong Kong , and who had also met Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan and knew that , in very truth , this son of a Geisha and who knows who , was a world figure , now pleading at the League of Nations for more attention to World Health than to armaments .
14 He points out that once fashionable products like royal jelly are now declining at the rate of 40% a year .
15 With the club now languishing at the bottom of the table they were in desperate need of a football visionary , a new footballing messiah .
16 Here 's the full story now beginning at the Baseball Ground .
17 The model is now flying at the maximum speed of which it is capable and is in a situation where all power above that required to maintain height goes into making the model move forwards .
18 His publishers are now aiming at the US market , and Hutson is touring America next year to promote Heathen .
19 Labour councils , desperate to avoid the final sanction — a sale of goods in a debtor 's home — are now agonising at the prospect of taking legal action against their own supporters .
20 The latter was now staring at the Van Gogh boats and the milky sea and sky through poppy-scarlet lenses , which Frederica thought was perverse , although she wished she had the courage to ask for a moment to put them on , to see all this .
21 She now has a wedding dress that cost me the national debt , but which now bears no relation to the original creation because all the expensive seed-pearls are strewn around her bedroom floor , and which the dog thought would be marvellous to eat and is now residing at the local vet 's and which will cost me even more money .
22 Thus , tired of being the poor and comparatively impotent relation , General Synod is now chafing at the bit .
23 Now standing at the platform is a reconstruction of the royal train , hauled by the GWR locomotive The Queen .
24 With a new film , The Hard Way , now showing at the cinema , it 's hard to believe that Michael J Fox resolved last year to give up being a film star and spend more time with his wife , Tracy Pollan , and their son , Sam , who 's three this week .
25 Rediscovering Pompeii is a fascinating exhibition now showing at the Accademia Italiana London .
26 Rediscovering Pompeii is a fascinating exhibition now showing at the Accademia Italiana London .
27 In the event , Wesley Smith 's portrait WO N'T be hanging next to Sean Connery 's in an exhibition of Peter 's work now showing at the Link Centre .
28 The picture of the fuel cycle now emerging at the inquiry suggests that large quantities of spent fuel from nuclear power stations are going to have to be stored three times : first underwater in ponds at each power station ; secondly , at the new repository , and thirdly , after reprocessing — until such time as the British government decides how to dispose of high level nuclear waste .
29 THE ARBITERS of Britain 's nuclear future , now sitting at the Sizewell inquiry , might like to know of a new hazard connected with pressurised-water reactors .
30 I can picture her now sitting at the harmonium in her black lace gown , me standing beside her as we sang together .
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