Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Abalkin plan had tight deadlines for closing down or leasing unprofitable state enterprises , ( industry by the beginning of 1991 , state and collective farms by 1992 ) , Mr Ryzhkov gave no cut-off date . |
| 2 | Men are more likely than women to be ‘ economically active ’ , that is , in effect , to be in or seeking paid employment outside the home ( see Figure 2.8 ) , but this difference is decreasing with time ( see Figure 2.9 ) . |
| 3 | Prominent among these factors are increased social and geographical mobility consequent upon greatly increased educational opportunity and a rapidly changing economy ; the marked trends over recent decades towards smaller families , higher marriage rates and earlier marriage ; and the growing numbers of women continuing in or re-entering full-time work . |
| 4 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 5 | remember going in and seeing this film and , it just it did n't it was so to my mind , and you know thinking back now , my memory of it was of a sort of very dark and dreary |
| 6 | He came in and trampling this brake fluid all over the carpet . |
| 7 | Chairman Sir Ian McLaurin said shoppers are tightening their belts and ‘ trading down and buying cheaper food -such as bread , lemonade and frozen chips ’ |
| 8 | I do n't , I do n't think dieting is the main thing , it 's just cutting down and getting more exercise |
| 9 | In setting down and discussing that theory we are , therefore , dealing with the " official " view of British politics — with the view that dominates public discussion and the accounts in the media . |
| 10 | On Sept. 20 , 1989 , Pierre Bérégovoy , Minister of State for Economy , Finance and Budget , announced a 1990 budget designed to keep inflation down while sustaining economic growth . |
| 11 | They fitted it in while doing normal training on Jaguars and Harriers . |
| 12 | Deputy secretary Anthea Rose has stepped in as acting chief executive while a replacement is found . |
| 13 | However , the court will look very carefully at any agreement that is alleged to be a tenancy at will , particularly if the circumstances are not the classic circumstances of holding over or holding pending negotiation . |
| 14 | It is a habit that has historically enjoyed a measure of success in maintaining control over and transmitting limited knowledge to young people in large numbers in the physically restricted space of the school classroom . |
| 15 | ( The CGLI Foundation Course , aimed at those aged 16 or over and offering general education linked to a specific area of work , and the CGLI Vocational Preparation ( General ) Course , allowing students unsure of their plans to try various general areas of work , are both intended to be replaced by CPVE ; see below : Joint Board for Pre-vocational Education . ) |
| 16 | Eric Priest has taken over as acting Chief Fire Officer for Cleveland after the retirement of Bill Cooney on health grounds . |
| 17 | Gavin Anderson , director of strategic management of the NHS Management Executive , is to take over as acting chief executive until a successor to Mr Cruickshank is appointed . |
| 18 | The new appointments amounted to a purge of communist apparatchiks , among them Valentin Simonenko who had taken over as acting Prime Minister following Fokin 's resignation and was seen as Kravchuk 's first choice for premier , in favour of nationalists and industrialists . |
| 19 | I think it 's about time that you stopped blaming , and I think it 's about time that you started accepting re le responsibility that you are in it and getting on and making this council . |
| 20 | Erm if they can keep putting that kind of performance on and showing that sort of commitment then we 'd be all right . |
| 21 | You can , however , simply cast off when using this band for a V-neck , as V-necks are sufficiently large to go over the head easily . |
| 22 | The box can be left off when cutting short grass , so that clippings mulch the lawn . |
| 23 | And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . |
| 24 | The Corporals took it in turns to watch those digging from the shelter of the farmhouse , wrapped up and drinking hot coffee . |
| 25 | Do n't waste your time setting up and maintaining expensive control procedures . |
| 26 | Setting up and running preventative maintenance programmes and anti-virus software updates . |
| 27 | However , there were no guarantees that the service would be up and running next season and that would be a turn-off for would-be sponsors . |
| 28 | The steering committee has applied to Durham County Council and eight district councils for funding and hopes to be up and running next month . |
| 29 | Intended to relieve pressure on the most popular courses , the system should be up and running this spring . |
| 30 | You were n't doing anything individual it was more communion thing you were making the likes of if it was brown bread you 're all standing rolling up and chaffing brown bread and putting them in tins . |