Example sentences of "[v-ing] after [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm there there were quite a few interesting debates that that came up about policing after the riots , I mean initially it was the fact that you did n't see any policemen in the flats at all . |
| 2 | Without England skipper Will Carling , resting after the Barbarians ' match against Australia , scrum-half Rob Glenister led the way with a hat-trick of tries and full-back Stuart Thresher added six conversions . |
| 3 | The PCAS has accused UCCA of poaching after the universities ' system approached polytechnics and told them it would delay the deadline for its 1993 handbook by two weeks to allow them to join . |
| 4 | Another Scots miner , a great-uncle , is also remembered at work until he was 74 , ‘ lookin' after the ropes and that in the shafts ! … |
| 5 | Along with the fitters at the tunnel , looking after the locos and slushers in the tunnel and all the rest of the |
| 6 | But the the guy that 's looking after the schemes |
| 7 | He 's looking after the schemes for the leisure office . |
| 8 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
| 9 | Why am I always given the responsibility of looking after the microphones , I 've done this for years well think about this brother here , he made cheese for years and he did n't like the job one bit , now is n't that strange , do you know why ? |
| 10 | His roles have meant a lot of work in ‘ behind the scenes matters ’ , looking after the systems that underpin the Company 's computer facilities . |
| 11 | ‘ We all think maintenance is as important as landscaping , and enjoy looking after the gardens we have made , ’ she adds . |
| 12 | Just before his royal appointment Rose may have been the ‘ Mr Rowse ’ looking after the gardens at Woburn Abbey from about 1658 to 1661 . |
| 13 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 14 | In fact you sound as if you 've hardly a minute to yourself between looking after the grandchildren and caring for your husband . |
| 15 | The consortium responsible for looking after the women 's housing and financial affairs , as well as providing some monitoring of the quality of service , had temporarily to reduce its operations because of staff shortages . |
| 16 | Chairman of the World Championships is Albert Woods with former slalom treasurer John Liddell again looking after the finances . |
| 17 | At the moment I have to do everything by myself : planting and weeding the rice , looking after the bananas , coconuts and sweet potatoes . |
| 18 | In the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 19 | Yes but why did Hitachi Data Systems Ltd choose the name Osiris for its new mainframe Unix combination ( see front ) : in the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 20 | With the main objective of looking after the interests of those professional pilots who work within the air taxi and commuter airline business , this British organisation , IPA , has recently been formed . |
| 21 | The most elementary division is between those who concentrate on the representative function of a councillor by looking after the interests of individual constituents and those who prefer the managerial function of determining policy and ensuring its implementation . |
| 22 | ( 1 ) attitudes towards the nature of representation , ( 2 ) behaviour within council groups , ( 3 ) preference for governing the city as a whole or looking after the interests of a ward , ( 1 ) preference for dealing with general policy issues or with individual problems , ( 5 ) preference for specialisms in one aspect of council work or generalizing over them all , and ( 6 ) attitudes towards the involvement of community organisations in the government of the city ( Newton 1976a:114 ) . |
| 23 | As almost all TDs are now willing to admit , the obligation inherent in the STV to compete for votes by looking after the interests of constituents forces them to give less than proper attention to their prime constitutional responsibility as legislators . |
| 24 | For the reasons that I gave in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath ( Mr. Townsend ) , I believe that we are looking after the interests and future of the wood as thoroughly as any reasonable person could . |
| 25 | With some 22,000 students moving around within our city , even if one felt that a nominal sum should be paid — here I am looking after the interests of the hon. Member for City of Durham ( Mr. Steinberg ) whose lovely daughter is now a constituent of mine ; I trust that she will be sensible and know where to put her cross — it is clearly administratively impossible to handle and , given the changes in student support , that small relief will be welcome . |
| 26 | In short , we are the people who are looking after the interests of the North Yorkshire people . |
| 27 | The second small point I just wish to reemphasize was er coming from what the House Builders Federation said earlier about the house builders being the people who are looking after the interests os North Yorkshire locals . |
| 28 | ‘ For 20 years the Childrens ’ Hearing system has progressed very positively and we are doing much better than our brethren south of the Border in looking after the interests of children in Scotland . ’ |
| 29 | He also said his objective was ‘ just looking after the interests of world trade . ’ |
| 30 | They take care of the transport and looking after the invalids . |