Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board will usually have responsibility for long-term strategic planning , for example concerning investment in new production facilities and products , merging or making a bid for another company , closing down existing plants or pulling out of unprofitable markets . |
| 2 | For non-phobic clients , homework tasks might include being more assertive in a specific situation at work , involvement in a relaxing leisure activity , or cutting down on prescribed tranquillizers . |
| 3 | They may have been on the street , or coming out of bed-and-breakfast lodgings . |
| 4 | The Greater London Enterprise Board ( renamed Greater London Enterprises in 1986 ) can claim some considerable success in saving or creating up to 4000 jobs between 1982 and 1985 , but London had lost over 250000 jobs between 1978 and 1982 alone ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1985 , p. 81 ) . |
| 5 | The liability of the Corporation under this Section ( subject to Condition 5 of this Policy ) for all compensation payable in respect of or arising out of one occurrence or in respect of or arising out of all occurrences of a series consequent on or attributable to one source or original cause shall not exceed £1,000,000 . |
| 6 | Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries . |
| 7 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |
| 8 | It recommends that developing countries seek " advance payments and relatively small royalties rather than holding out for higher royalties that may never materialise " . |
| 9 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 10 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 11 | Some residents enjoy being useful and helping out with domestic tasks , and a good Home encourages this . |
| 12 | The interviewing panel of Horsley , Pilger and Hayling , with Kerry Brown and Maxine Johnson representing the Founders , was supplemented by Christine Jackson , sitting in and limbering up for Equal Opportunities . |
| 13 | On Dec. 6 a bomb destroyed the Department of National Security ( DAS ) headquarters in Bogotá , killing 67 people and wounding up to 800 others . |
| 14 | If people are leaving severed heads in fonts and monkeying about with regimental relics after hours they 'd need keys and naturally it 's awkward for Charles if … ’ |
| 15 | Implementation is for planning and installing hardware and software , producing documentation and training , a handover to new systems and winding down of old systems . |
| 16 | They are tailing unmarked police cars to stake outs and listening in on secret frequencies . |
| 17 | There was something of the Regency dandy in the way he trailed his cane and rotated his globular head , as if looking out for fellow beaux to salute . |
| 18 | We discussed erm erm other places for people to meet et cetera has actually been closed down , some some problem with the is n't it , erm but they ca n't use it for the public so erm that was , it was just left that we 'll have another meeting in March and looking around for alternative places to meet , but that 's all to report on that . |
| 19 | Several unions , conscious that their membership had fallen in recent years and looking round for new areas of recruitment , homed in on " non-standard " workers . |
| 20 | This refers to concentrating on and looking out for specific details in the world around you . |
| 21 | By the early 1960s the largest metropolitan areas in Britain had moved into ‘ absolute decentralization ’ , whereby the principal settlements of each began to lose population , and by 1971 several of these areas were facing overall population decline , with residential decentralization taking place across their boundaries and spilling over into adjacent city-regions or further afield ( Hall et al. , 1973 ; Spence el al. , 1982 ) . |
| 22 | These are major problems in identifying , and separating off from other policies , a specific area called ‘ social policy ’ . |
| 23 | Thanks to television … the nation had an armchair view of the violence : uprooted telegraph poles , rolling down the hill towards the police cordon ; a workmen 's hut dragged into the road and going up in petrol-fed flames ; a lone policeman with his truncheon repeatedly laying into a recumbent miner ; the wall of riot shields parting like the Red Sea as groups of police , in black one-piece suits and NATO helmets , dashed into the crowded pickets while a senior officer , with loud-hailer , encouraged them to ‘ take prisoners ’ . |
| 24 | A medical model has a strict routine , whereas a social work model allows for more individual autonomy and choice in matters such as times of getting up , going to bed , and going out for independent activities , which might conflict with staff shifts and rotas . |
| 25 | He cleverly made use of the lowering fuel weight and bedding in of new tyres , to outwit his British challengers , Hawthorn and Collins . |
| 26 | Twice as large as the Atlantic and getting on for three times the size of the Indian Ocean , it is bigger than all the land surface of the earth , including Antarctica , and with Africa counted twice . |
| 27 | Abrupt relaxations of the upper oesophageal sphincter independent of swallowing and lasting up to three seconds occurred during 54% of common cavity episodes . |
| 28 | Given these disturbing facts , the phasing out of nuclear power and phasing in of renewable technologies makes sense . |
| 29 | Starting with research on small towns in the mid-1930s and moving on to larger cities in the next decade , successive community studies analysed political processes as one aspect of the social life of the locality , and concluded that only a handful of people were influential in setting major decisions ( the Lynds , 1937 ; Warner , 1943 ) . |
| 30 | But today his solicitor Tony Hughes told Milton Keynes magistrates the youth had changed his ways after leaving council care and moving in with foster parents . |