Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun and HP then secretly allied , bringing together expertise in the operating system and user interface respectively . |
| 2 | Keeping up morale in the Falklands |
| 3 | A winding up order in respect of the bank was made in January 1992 . |
| 4 | This is very clear from the results of the monetary union with East Germany and the subsequent massive mopping up operation in which the central government is engaging . |
| 5 | The Soviet Union gave appreciable assistance in cultivating a significant air strength in contrast to the United States , which concentrated solely on the army in the south , ruling out aid in the air and naval spheres . |
| 6 | In 1988 , while politicians made a show of picking up litter in London parks to encourage public concern , other European countries were several steps ahead in implementing hard-hitting environmental policies . |
| 7 | I 've even considered picking up litter in different parts of London — or even different parts of the country — to include in the archive , as historical specimens of the varied treatment meted out to ephemera : the flyers with the coupons torn out , worth 15 pence off the next purchase in high-street supermarkets ; the junk-food cartons , the ketchup sachets and tiny envelopes of pepper and salt outside the fast-food places , and , by contrast , the pristine copies of Vogue , the printed dress boxes , emblazoned with trademarks and royal coats of arms , tossed into the dustbins of Kensington . |
| 8 | In view of the fact that eye testing is important in picking up illness in the elderly and that we are in the business of preventive medicine rather than treating illnesses when they occur , will my hon. Friend keep an open mind ? |
| 9 | By dressing up deprivation in this spatial vocabulary it is possible to hide the more unpalatable realities of economic restructuring , redundancy and exploitation . |
| 10 | We also talk of ‘ doing research ’ when we investigate the history of a place we intend to visit , looking up information in travel guides and brochures , finding out how best to get there , what to avoid and how to get value for money . |
| 11 | Alfred was waving a white-stockinged leg in the air , Heinrich experimentally bending over in his black knee breeches ; James was pulling at his skimpy short jacket , puffing out his chest like Beerbohm Tree as d'Artagnan , Algernon was dancing a Highland fling showing off his black slipper shoes , and Alice and Emily were swishing merrily arm in arm through the kitchen in their huge , gathered black skirts covered with large , bibbed , lacy aprons . |
| 12 | Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ |
| 13 | The conclusions to this study are expected to be of use to policy-makers in deciding where help in promoting a better trained workforce is most needed . |
| 14 | Many are speeding up investment in technology to make their water gathering facilities more efficient . |
| 15 | Why are we , the so-called celebrities and you , the Golden-Hearted GBP , coughing up week in week out of our time and our money to pay for what we were brought up to believe our taxes paid for ? |
| 16 | Any debate will persuade them they 're whipping up interest in fiction . |
| 17 | Your learning must be a technique of building up knowledge in small doses , as articulated parts of a whole . |
| 18 | In an opinion poll taken in December of that year on the question ‘ Which do you think is the more important for Britain to concentrate on : building up strength in atomic weapons and missiles , or in conventional weapons like troops , tanks and bombers ? ’ 52 per cent favoured the former , 8 per cent the latter , 22 per cent neither , wanting disarmament instead , and 18 per cent did not know . |
| 19 | It is a wonderful way of assuring the presence of core stock and building up stock in Dillons stores . |
| 20 | Effective though it proved , the device of holding down output in the hope of driving up prices brought with it problems not to be found in any economics textbook : the global output ceiling , if set realistically in relation to demand , can easily prove too small to be divided amicably . |
| 21 | And I 'm glad the Chancellor has been fairly tough on public spending and holding down pay in the public sector . |
| 22 | It turns neighbour against neighbour , breaking down trust in a way that the paramilitary organisations are finding easy to exploit . |
| 23 | However , on the 11th , Mercury , planet of sociability and communication , turns backwards , slowing down progress in these areas . |
| 24 | Which means they 're 30% brighter and better directed so as not to blind oncoming drivers , while minimising back glare in fog . |
| 25 | He is accused of direct interference in senior board and managerial appointments and other local decisions , and of holding back money in reserve to then push it out on waiting list initiatives . |
| 26 | ‘ UNREALISTIC ’ bids for building contracts are holding back recovery in the construction industry , it was claimed today . |
| 27 | Rival ministers must even claim that heavy spending in one area is holding back growth in others . |
| 28 | She is nothing if not an enthusiast and exhibits that special quality so necessary for a regular ski touring in Scotland ; a voracious appetite for sniffing out snow in sufficient quantity to make a continuous tour . |
| 29 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 30 | Early in 1935 Göring assured Ambassador Lipski that , far from stirring up trouble in the border , Danzig was quiet only because the Nazis were in control . |