Example sentences of "[coord] running " in BNC.

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1 The Voluntary Organisations Liaison Council for Under Fives & Workplace Nurseries have produced a book giving simple relevant and practical advice on planning , managing & running a day nursery .
2 At the time , most observers believed that the real reason was that the BBC had been unable to persuade the newly-elected Conservative government to contribute towards the cost of setting up ( about £3million at 1977 prices ) or running a dedicated traffic service .
3 If the band spends a lot of money in the venue ( with a big stage extension , an early ‘ get-in ’ to the venue , playing very late , or running up an enormous catering bill ) , all of these costs are paid mainly by the artist .
4 Of Belle Isle , or running on the Horn .
5 And for a moment you do n't know whether they 're talking about this strange bodily posture or running a club .
6 If your leg muscles are inadequately used for walking or running you will be prone to develop varicose veins .
7 For the Autumn 1955 issue , Mary Short of Norwich wrote an article entitled ‘ Compel them to Come in ’ predicting that the WEA would die a natural death unless more young members were recruited and advocating adventurous experiment : ‘ it may mean holding afternoon classes , or running a baby-sitter service so that young couples with children can come … has any Branch tried to recruit new members by advertising courses on child psychology at ante-natal clinics and infant welfare centres ? ’ .
8 But according to the questionnaire I recently sent you , over 20% of our customers are achieving this — by working or running a business from home .
9 The data show that the development officer in Newham had on average five such clients per week when the project was fully operational ( that is excluding the period in which her case load was either building up or running down ) .
10 I was left with the option of forgetting it , or running with the idea myself . ’
11 Driving is a useful skill , starting or running a parent — teacher association is proof of many useful abilities and qualities , fundraising for charity demonstrates energy , initiative and organizational ability .
12 Like all prisoners of circumstance , you will probably reflect a good deal on the whole subject of ‘ time ’ and of its strange habits of hanging , dragging , or running out too quickly , but if you decide to use and dominate it , instead of allowing it to dominate you , you will inevitably come to the conclusion that it is only wasted if it is thrown away , never when it is offered freely , as a gift of love .
13 The labour-intensive car-cleaning method involves either my supervising them carefully or running the risk of the paintwork being scratched by sponges full of grit because they have been dropped in the gutter , and the car bonnet dented by the smallest child climbing on it to reach the windscreen .
14 Then she had shown an avid interest in everything she saw : the horses themselves , the rabbits frolicking in the fields or running to escape the horses ' hooves , in a landscape full of promise — cool , mellow and green .
15 Now you 've worked through these 12 exercises , lightly jog for a few seconds and remember to jog where you can , whether it 's going for a bus or running up the stairs .
16 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime .
17 So public and congressional interest was low and this in turn kept budgets tight , preventing the building of the new facilities or running the new experiments such as the dt one at Princeton that could produce the breakthrough .
18 THE INDIGO Girls are so … well … um , inoffensive they should be presenting Play Away or running musical workshops for the under fives .
19 Colchester Business Enterprise Agency 0206–48833 : free advice for those starting or running their own business , courses and workshops .
20 As long as you toe the chalk line ] Rules are made to be kept in this house , no shouting , or running upstairs , and no Language . ’
21 Other sports would make good computer programs , e.g. lawn tennis , show jumping , or team athletics , as well as simulations of jobs such as managing a pop group or running a boutique .
22 Their work is ancillary to that of producing a newspaper or running a television station and they are not essentially in advertising itself .
23 Leg Movements and Locomotion — The legs of insects are used in three forms of locomotion — walking ( or running ) , jumping and swimming .
24 And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle .
25 Towards the end of this time , the mother looks as though she has a bunch of pink grapes on her underside and clambering about the branches or running over uneven ground not only becomes awkward for her but looks distinctly uncomfortable for her young .
26 However , there were some whose role appeared to involve , apart from class teaching and standing in when the head was absent , no more than relatively low-level jobs like reporting on leaking gutters or running a tuck shop .
27 In between they had us swimming , playing football or rugby or running for miles along the beach and on the cliff tops towards Filey .
28 Normal gait a sedate walk , with head erect , but usually either crouching with neck extended or running when alarmed .
29 It was like putting on a costume for a play , or running in the three-legged race .
30 Or running round after some bloody male in an office . ’
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