Preposition: of

• patient: However, some concern was voiced over the issue of flagging of patients ' children up to the age of 16 years.

Used with adjective complement

• keep: Keep flagging up to the Assembly the commitment they make is crucial.

• start: And when it started flagging on the upward journey, a simple assistance of pedals got it to the top.

• mean: Back then, motorized travel meant flagging down a lift in the policeman's sidecar.

Modifies a noun

• fortune: He was determined to retrieve the college's flagging fortunes.

• spirit: However, what confronted us in the medical tent was a perverse tonic to our flagging spirits.

• economy: Any tendency for excess demand in the UK will be offset by a flagging world economy.

• career: The Fringe has always been big on nostalgia, partly because it's where aging performers go in an attempt to revive flagging careers.

• reputation: Bedford Market is about to receive a radical facelift in a bid to boost its flagging reputation.

• rating: But over reliant on plot is a poor response to flagging ratings.

Modifying Another Word

• now: I go for it and am passing some of the hares who are now flagging.

• also: And thanks to Robin for also flagging up Polly's piece and our petition this morning.

• really: As it turned into evening again I was really flagging.

• just: Or it may just be that, like all of us, your praying is just flagging a little.

• early: The lightning conclusion of the Western campaign, however, robbed the Moscow overlords of their hope of an early flagging of German power.

• already: I am already flagging a bit in energy due to the valleys and peaks of pleasure and pain that is World Cup.

Preposition: up

• issue: I am grateful to him for flagging up the issues that he wants to raise.

• fact: By flagging up the fact that this is as much a cosmetic exercise as anything else, you will appear shrewd and reflective.

• danger: Government programs flagging up the dangers to young people are vital, and I know that my hon.

• saving: Annie Gregory reports 09/06/2006 Flagging up savings There is far more scope for cost-cutting and business advantage using automatic sensing technologies than most realize.