Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [coord] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Is the Prime Minister aware that his claim to have reined in the ambitions of our partners is a vain boast that bears no relation to reality , and that going into Maastricht we had a Community of 12 and coming out we had a Community of 11 and a half ?
2 Times sets of and lots of , that 's the sam it 's like counting in threes or counting in let's add another three , add another three add another three .
3 All of the administrative systems developed on behalf of the modular course have been designed and tested in-house , beginning with a simple program for pre-enrolment information and student progress on a microcomputer in 1972 and leading up to the large and sophisticated management system described in Chapter 7 .
4 One in three and rising mentally disabled .
5 Peter shot a 63 in one of the qualifying rounds at Lytham , eight under par , going out in 29 and coming back in 34 .
6 Locally weighted scatter plot smoothing illustrates the slowing of the rate of increase in AIDS incidence in homosexual/bisexual males , beginning in 1987 and becoming more striking in 1988 .
7 There are further exceptions dating from 1970 and applying only in actions in respect of personal injuries or death .
8 Trains will have a power car at both ends , each capable of starting the train on a maximum gradient of 1 in 40 and accelerating rapidly to a maximum operating speed of 300kph .
9 Overwhelmed , he retreated to London , eventually setting up his own label in 1967 and taking on the design directorship for Kangol hats and berets in 1981 .
10 The steam crane , built by Ransomes and Rapier in 1944 and weighing in at about 142 tons , was eased into the head-stunt after the incident .
11 By 1900 it was back up to 148,263 and rising again .
12 The temperature inside … minus twelve and falling fast .
13 The ‘ Countryman ’ undertakes a complete run departing Alresford at 13.10 and returning about 15.00 supplying mince pies and sherry along the way .
14 He repeated the best win of his career — over the Soviet No.1 , Andrei Mazunov , in Moscow last season — by saving a game point at 21-22 and going on to win 24-22 , 21-12 .
15 She would have described herself quite objectively as aged 35 and looking neither older nor younger , height 5 feet 4 and usually just under nine stone with a figure that was well kept rather than dramatic .
16 With station buildings at Dovey Junction demolished in January , passengers wanting to go eastward are best advised to go first westward to Aberystwyth , arriving at 15:01 and departing eastwards at 15:21 !
17 Alternate them , starting at three and working up to five days by Week Four .
18 Up at five and sleeping badly of late , Luke kept his mind off Perdita and himself awake on the long straight roads , as he had done so often in the past , by concentrating on a particular horse .
19 So she might be better he might be better going with Gill , I 'll tell him tonight erm she 's going over there at two and coming back at three thirty and she wanted Lee to go , like , at three thirty and she 'd bring him back at half past eight at night .
20 As a result , we shall end overcrowding by 1995 and slopping out by 1994 .
21 Thus the flow of this information began to decline in the 1890s reaching a trickle , mainly on peripheral issues , by 1914 and ceasing totally after 1918 .
22 I think that the idea of erm you know , rushing in to a disaster , taking the aeroplane out , and , and seeing this enormous distress around one and sitting there with a notebook and a pencil is , is unacceptable and indeed we do n't do that at all .
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