Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company put on a special workman 's train to carry these men morning and evening , picking up at Roade and Castlethorpe , the latter two serving as pick up points for Hanslope , Yardley Gobion and Potterspury men . |
| 2 | It 's widely known — because the unions have publicized it — that the Department is looking at bailing out Huerter Textiles . |
| 3 | The main thing to cut is saturated fat which can cause high blood cholesterol levels , leading to clogged up arteries and potentially a heart attack or stroke . |
| 4 | An IT supplier at a manufacturing company which supplies DIY retailers says : ‘ We have PC software that allows us to receive orders from people like B&Q and Wickes via the Tradanet network , and we 're experimenting with sending back invoices that way . |
| 5 | The most common of these is the high incidence of arthritic and rheumatic problems ; other specific examples include blindness and neurological problems associated with long-term diabetes ; chronic pain resulting from building up immunity to certain drugs , such as morphine ( various groups ) ; chronic respiratory problems caused by spinal deformity ( scoliosis ) ; and a variety of physiological problems coming under the heading of ‘ post-polio syndrome ’ . |
| 6 | In a research note commenting on Grand Met 's final results , Kleinwort Benson Securities said : ‘ Greater accounting transparency resulting from reporting under FRS 3 will steadily diminish concerns among some investors that the group 's past accounting had become overcreative . ’ |
| 7 | However , costings on the estimated expenditure resulting from buying back ScotRail will not be included . |
| 8 | This course , which is the only one of its type in Northern Ireland , is designed to cater for students who wish to study accounting and other related subjects before deciding whether they want to embark on the study of professional accountancy , or who wish to acquire sufficient knowledge of accounting before taking up employment . |
| 9 | The role of the auditor should be to support management by assisting in pointing out deficiencies and advising on possible courses of action . |
| 10 | If the solution is very dilute the change in temperature ΔT can be related to the solute mole fraction by and substituting for gives where c 2 is the solute concentration ( mass per unit volume solution ) . |
| 11 | In some cases joint ventures between the private sector and the NHS are succeeding in taking on areas which are proving too costly or cumbersome for the NHS alone . |
| 12 | With the government insisting on cutting back sulphur emissions from Scottish power stations , the company is likely to bring forward the opening date of the station by several years to 1992-93 . |
| 13 | She entered her own No. 3 to find her son reading a copy of Playgoer and Jessie creeping about hanging up costumes . |
| 14 | What he 's talking about and this is the same erm same councillor who was talking about living harmoniously side by side those that have are are buying them , those that are renting them but what he 's actually saying is well I 'm actually very , very sorry but if you have n't a job , if you have n't an income or you 're income is so low , just go over there and stay away from us decent chaps with lots of cash . |
| 15 | I assure him that we are not talking about sweeping away counties . |
| 16 | But instead he is talking about keeping up research and development on space-based systems — which is exactly what was being done before . |
| 17 | Now the Tories are even talking about putting up taxes |
| 18 | Redcar 's not so very far away , now is it ? ’ he adds , his ‘ r 's ’ rolling like chucking out time in Bedlington . |
| 19 | Conner is responding by ramping up production of its Filepro and Aegean Series of 3.5 ’ and of new tape drives developed by Archive . |
| 20 | Once or twice lately he 's mentioned the possibility that he might ‘ change his way of life ’ which could mean that he intended to get married , but with Francis it could equally mean that he was thinking of taking up golf or ludo . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm thinking of laying up Rochester in dry dock . |
| 22 | This is what I was thinking of throwing out Jean . |
| 23 | They begged forgiveness from the Mother Goddess and blessed the axe in a ritual of mourning before hacking down trees in autumn . |
| 24 | We have shown you how to incorporate the common cables into your knitting , simply imitating hand knitting by crossing over stitches . |
| 25 | Pre set microwave programmes take the guess work out of cooking by calculating over temperatures , microwave power and timing for you . |
| 26 | US Secretary of State James Baker made a 10-day tour of the former Soviet Union during February , concentrating on building up relations with the Islamic states ( a shift in policy prompted partly because of the fear of Iranian activity in the region ) , and on defence conversion matters [ see pp. 38792-93 . |
| 27 | After such drawings became fashionable ( and thus more expensive ) in recent years , Bean had been concentrating on filling in gaps in the Metropolitan 's collection of nineteenth-century French drawings , purchasing sheets by the academic painters Henri Lehmann , Isadore Pils , Ferdinand Cormon and Hippolyte Flandrin . |
| 28 | Some cities in Britain are working on setting up telephone help lines for children to ring in and talk about death and their own experiences . |
| 29 | Your daddy 's gon na go up apartments . |
| 30 | Not only that you see alright the mortgage rates might go up but I mean if you 're working your wages are gon na go up Stuart . |