Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 An old upper-hab mind , lurking in hiding behind the new Fist mind ?
2 We will ensure that , following maternity leave or a career break , all women working in the NHS , including those returning to nursing on a part-time or job-sharing basis , are able to return to work of a similar status or level to that which they left .
3 There is no doubt that by returning to nursing in the next decade you will be helping to prepare the profession for the enormous demographic and social challenges facing Britain in the 21st century .
4 ‘ Just let me jump out of the canoe for you , ’ she muttered through gritted teeth , returning to paddling with a new fury .
5 Sublimation is the change from solid to gas on heating and from gas to solid on cooling without passing through the liquid phase .
6 We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations .
7 The friend he 's looking for served with the Royal Military Police in Austria from .
8 Such a system would benefit Sunderland not only financially there would be full-houses for each match but also the big crowds would surely help the Rokermen to get the safety points they are looking for to climb above the Second Division danger zone .
9 I am writing with regard to the small article ‘ Christie 's to hold sales in Germany ’ that appears in the November edition of The Art Newspaper .
10 Pace that 's right you 've been cheating and looking on looking on the next page
11 Already looking at playing in the 1995 Rugby World Cup , Japan stole a march on emerging Asian rivals , Hong Kong , by bringing forward the dates of next year 's Asian Championship .
12 One of my in fact was I can remember , I went up when I was first er paying for paying for an annual ticket with their bus passes and eight pound for a single ticket for us er for our quarterly ticket .
13 In those days there was considerable emphasis on its carcass quality and 60,000 fat Jutlands were sent to England with another 30,000 lean cattle going for fattening on the German marshes .
14 It is doubtful if anything remotely striking will be forthcoming as regards either ISDN or OSI in the two years remaining before dawning of the brave new communicative continent in 1992 .
15 Provision for children with special educational needs is becoming a major problem , leading to overspending in a considerable proportion of local authority education budgets .
16 Relations between President Roh Tae Woo 's ruling Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) and the remaining opposition forces worsened significantly during July , leading to fighting within the National Assembly and to the mass resignation of opposition legislators .
17 Her other interests include classical music , the care of the elderly and the handicapped particularly with British Polio Fellowship and helping with riding for the disabled at the Diamond Riding Centre , Carshalton .
18 By nightfall Mr Rajmohan Gandhi was calling for repolling throughout the entire constituency .
19 The hilltop we were aiming for looked like an angry volcano .
20 Editor , — Reviewing our book , Emily Grundy wrote : ‘ They … contend that there are no grounds for speaking of aging at the cellular level . ’
21 Instead , our precise conclusion was that ‘ the probability of cell death does not increase with the age of the culture ; ie , there are no grounds for speaking of aging at the cellular level ’ ( p 216 ) .
22 Mr Byron Butler , 52 , the chairman , told him to make the necessary adjustments out of court before proceeding with sentencing in a drink-drive case .
23 Company relocation policies seldom make any special provision for employees moving out of high-cost housing areas to areas where house prices are low , except to review any special allowances which had been paid to ease hardship resulting from living in an expensive area .
24 The criminal law defines only some types of violence as criminal assault ; it excludes verbal assaults that can , and sometimes do , break a person 's spirit ; it excludes forms of assault whose injuries become apparent years later , such as those resulting from working in a polluted factory environment where the health risk was known to the employer but concealed from the employee ( Swartz 1975 ) ; it excludes ‘ compulsory ’ drug-therapy or electric-shock treatment given to ‘ mentally disturbed ’ patients or prisoners who are denied the civilized rights to refuse such beneficial medical help ( Mitford 1977 ; Szasz 1970,1977a , 1977b ) ; it excludes chemotherapy prescribed to control ‘ naughty ’ schoolboys , but includes physically hitting teachers ( Box 1981b ; Schrag and Divoky 1981 ) .
25 Gumperz approaches the pragmatics of code switching by looking at the social significance of each language or code , the content of the utterance and the code of that utterance .
26 The move away from teaching by copying in the second half of this century and the lack of space for exhibiting the works has meant that the collection has been largely hidden .
27 He spent three years at Charing Cross Hospital School of Nursing before qualifying as a Registered General Nurse in 1983 .
28 So really starting towards looking at the different nature of strategies the new one would have .
29 I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young .
30 That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’
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