Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ Because that team is almost all new , we were very wary of rushing in and making inappropriate changes , which is why we did nothing permanent with the marketing of the 1992 Festival which was Brian McMaster 's first . |
| 8 | Then , after about three months , I had got it all out of my system I suppose , and I actually turned down an invitation to a party in favour of staying in and washing some clothes ! |
| 9 | It is through these means that the people , our people , all the people in this city many of them bound together and then able to go out and think about their civic lives if you like , their civic , the way th that this council works perhaps and take part much more in just go in and putting little crosses on pieces of paper maybe . |
| 10 | He came in and trampling this brake fluid all over the carpet . |
| 11 | The special internally tapered ferrule preserves the brush shape when painting , make cutting in and painting straight lines easier , and also reduces bristle loss . |
| 12 | On days of national holiday we had a parade , marching up and down and singing patriotic songs . |
| 13 | Chairman Sir Ian McLaurin said shoppers are tightening their belts and ‘ trading down and buying cheaper food -such as bread , lemonade and frozen chips ’ |
| 14 | Blake 's work for MI6 included not only gathering intelligence from the Russians but tracking down and watching Communist spies sent over into the West . |
| 15 | Chapter 4 will show that the courts do , or at least could , play a part in controlling the quality of management decision making by laying down and enforcing appropriate standards of care and skill , but requiring judges to determine whether managers have complied with what are essentially procedural decision-making criteria is quite different from asking them to participate in the decision-making process itself . |
| 16 | I do n't , I do n't think dieting is the main thing , it 's just cutting down and getting more exercise |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He will be given the task of hunting down and destroying external enemies who are posing a threat to the Gold Dragon Hung . |
| 19 | Donald and Jean had disappeared and Mary was in a black mood , striding along and making old Donald gasp . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Rather than taking over or adapting old forms of psychology , these feminists hope to create a psychology of their own , which , by addressing specifically female aspects of subjectivity , will empower women . |
| 22 | Machine long edges together with a 5mm ( ¼in ) seam allowance , leaving an opening for turning through and stitching diagonal ends . |
| 23 | Many old galvanised cisterns will have rusted sufficiently for the water to be leaking through and showing damp patches on the ceiling . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( 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 . ) |
| 26 | And then it was rolling over and doing all sorts were n't it ? |
| 27 | And then David 's coming over and having three weeks , so she 'll be over seven weeks |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Erm if they can keep putting that kind of performance on and showing that sort of commitment then we 'd be all right . |
| 30 | Joan , responding to the beauty of St Patrick 's beloved mountains , reckons she has come home : ‘ Graeme gets bored and wants to be off and doing new things . |