Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in June ( UX No 387 ) , Hewlett-Packard Co was dropping large hints that it would be announcing and delivering new Snake workstations and upgrades based upon its next-generation PA RISC 7110 chip , Thunderbird , sometime before its fiscal year ends in October . |
| 2 | These gloomy conclusions are reached in a study of small businesses and their use of new technology by Christine Edwards of Kingston Polytechnic , who interviewed small business owner-managers on the process of adopting and implementing new technology and the benefits and difficulties experienced . |
| 3 | This in itself is no bad thing , because academic librarians have not been shy in adopting and adapting new techniques , yet it has to be questioned whether user education , with little institutional finance available , needed such stimulation . |
| 4 | A well-established and successful mechanism for developing and transferring new technology is through collaborative projects and industrial clubs . |
| 5 | N C V O has a proud record over the years , of developing and promoting new initiatives , to meet new needs , and to fill gaps in voluntary sector initiatives . |
| 6 | The Teams can assist groups developing and implementing new ideas which will benefit the area , but depend largely on the initiative and drive of local people . |
| 7 | Instead , priority will be given to developing and testing new products with civilian applications ranging from clean-fuel cars to fibre optics and supercomputer networks to improve communications and information access . |
| 8 | As well as recording , developing and applying new processing facilities , such as graphics or word processing , within the framework of the personnel information system , the Group Personnel Information Services Department has a responsibility to advise on and co-ordinate developments to the Payroll/Personnel database itself . |
| 9 | The only drawback to the course was the way my calves refused to move first thing in the morning ; the pluses ? — meeting and making new friends and returning home refreshed and energised in mind and body . |
| 10 | Often she would also spend hours designing and making new clothes for herself and sometimes for Dannii and friends . |
| 11 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 12 | By remixing and adding new parts to certain sections they have successfully managed to reinvent themselves . |
| 13 | Sources at Compagnie des Machines Bull SA say that , in the multi-annual plan , chief executive Bernard Pache is likely to outline further potential partnerships and cost-cutting measures , adding that despite the tough tone , it is difficult to imagine that the new government will refuse all further financing for Bull , letting it run the risk of receivership and the dumping of 30,000 workers , at a time when France 's biggest concern is retaining and creating new jobs . |
| 14 | Sources at Bull say that in the multi-annual plan , although Pache is likely to outline further potential partnerships and cost-cutting measures , it is difficult to imagine that the new French government will refuse all further financing for Bull , letting it run the risk of receivership and the dumping of 30,000 workers , at a time when France 's biggest concern is retaining and creating new jobs . |
| 15 | This evening is a time for partying and meeting new people away from your home base . |
| 16 | This evening is a time for partying and meeting new people away from your home base . |
| 17 | Evening is a time for partying and meeting new people away from your home base . |
| 18 | They will also have gained considerable confidence in confronting , examining and expressing new ideas in a new language . |
| 19 | Different varieties of crystals might earn their passage to new streams , not by crumbling into dust ‘ seeds ’ , but by dissecting their streams into lots of little streamlets that spread around , eventually joining and infecting new river systems . |
| 20 | Before 1962 he had attempted to modify it through at least five distinct initiatives : by sponsoring a political confederation of Western European states ; by proposing a restructuring of NATO ; by fostering a special relationship with the Federal Republic of Germany ; by decolonizing and establishing new connections with Third World nations ; and by pushing ahead with the development of France 's nuclear weapons programme . |
| 21 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 22 | We mentioned above that inflation creates additional administrative costs to households and firms , both in the search for the most favourably priced goods and in the time and effort involved in determining and disseminating new prices . |
| 23 | The government published on June 30 , 1989 , the Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Bill , the principal purpose of which was to tighten definitions of the practice of insider dealing and to introduce new penalties . |
| 24 | These have included upgrading and adding new credit and dealing systems , putting direct lines into all the main London and two New York foreign exchange brokers and focusing more clearly on Branch Banking Division and Corporate Banking relationships . |
| 25 | The provision of opportunities here for introducing and monitoring new materials is now beginning to be realised and opens very exciting possibilities . |
| 26 | NEW AESTHETICS FOR NEW DIRECTORS — finding and funding new film and television directors which also points the way to the styles , subjects and emotions of the British film and television culture of the future , — LOW AND BEHOLD ! |
| 27 | It is important for the Centre to establish an environment in which the difficulties facing the academic economist in developing , programming and verifying new techniques are minimised . |
| 28 | However , the time lags involved in a relocation exercise — perhaps resulting from delays in obtaining and refurbishing new premises or from departments/sections moving at different times — can seriously affect recruitment and training plans . |
| 29 | Poltoranin 's deputy , Mikhail Fedotov , became the new Press and Information Minister , but his brief was to be limited to registering and licensing new media and promoting freedom of speech , while Poltoranin was to be responsible for state-owned television and the press . |
| 30 | Record companies have become far more adept at monitoring and exploiting new acts , and their links with the smaller labels — who they once only heard about by way of the left-field rock press — are now thoroughly institutionalized . |