Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [n mass] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Activities drawing together staff and governors from several schools reduce the tendency for cut throat competition and encourages collaboration in joint policies and alliances to bring pressure on resource providers for a better service . |
| 2 | Guinness is stumping up £750 and Helen plans to raise the rest through events including a sponsored abseil . |
| 3 | The employer that does this will be protecting both staff and the business . ’ |
| 4 | They mainly showed dragons — dragons by the hundred , in flight or hanging from their perch rings , dragons with men on their backs hunting down deer and , sometimes , other men . |
| 5 | The soft drinks which she also made were good sellers during the summer months , costing only 2½d and even then , 1d was allowed upon return of the bottle . |
| 6 | Some places run day courses — costing maybe £30 or £40 — where you can learn to hold a bird and fly it ; they 'd provide trained birds for the ‘ students ’ to use . |
| 7 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 8 | Most of the information I 've got is about residential homes and that is because Social Work Services Group is an awful lot better at pulling together statistics and putting them out again than the Scottish Home and Health Department . |
| 9 | A few swims on the Frome at Lugwardine are turning up dace and odd chub . |
| 10 | The Bronze Age Sumerians made a ring seal revering both fruit and Tree together : a seated goddess and horned god stretch their hands towards fruit on the tree that grows between them . |
| 11 | has made significant progress in recent months , improving both sales and production performance . |
| 12 | A monster pike measuring about 4ft and weighing over 30lb has had a £460 bounty put on its head after chomping its way through almost half the stock of waterfowl and fish in the boating lake at Alexandra Palace , North London . |
| 13 | Roddick has pledged herself and her organisation to ‘ increasing public awareness of the qualities of jojoba oil and to lead the way by using it extensively , so helping both people and whales . ’ |
| 14 | Apart from his difficulty in hearing the contrast the Tamil speaker will also have difficulty producing both th and [ 0 ] . |
| 15 | The Yak came in fast from behind , firing both cannon and machine guns and the Stork staggered , pieces breaking from the wings . |
| 16 | Earlier on you were talking about erm the dredger bringing up fish or you your father |
| 17 | One would of course expect library authorities with large establishments to spend more on training , and as Table 12 indicates , this is broadly true , though with two large libraries spending under £3,000 and four smaller libraries spending over £3,000 , it is not an inevitable relationship , as the authority ‘ training profiles ’ in Appendix 3 also clearly indicate . |
| 18 | With six cylinder 2.5-litre turbo engines giving either 115bhp or 143 bhp , these diesels are capable of up to 129 mph , with matching acceleration , while still able to average around 40 mpg with more restrained use . |
| 19 | Through setting goals with priority areas , and through involving both staff and pupils , it suggested each school could take its own path to becoming ‘ the considerate school . ’ |
| 20 | This time , however , the bank could only afford 55% cover against its loans while the other banks were setting aside 70% or even 80% . |
| 21 | People were frantically packing up fruit and vegetable stalls , pushing carts and animals into their homes ; shutters were being banged tightly shut and everyone was shouting in loud , clattering voices . |
| 22 | Subsidies on Medicare health premiums to individuals earning over $125,000 and couples earning $150,000 were to be reduced , saving an estimated $2,850 million in fiscal 1992 rising to $6,880 million by 1996 . |
| 23 | and I say we 're going , getting shopping only fruit and veg in the market then he comes back with about four big library books ! |
| 24 | With land improvements in the LFA until recently attracting 50% grants and drainage attracting either 60% or 70% of costs in the UK ( plus guidance premia for farmers with Development Plans ) , a higher proportion of land improvement costs overall has been borne by the state than by the farmer . |
| 25 | He finds it far more challenging than shooting either grouse or pheasant , which he has also done plenty of . |