Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Re-investigation might show liability attaching and avoid unnecessary Court actions being raised . |
| 2 | In the subsequent quarter there will be a further adjustment with the forward looking and lagged return terms reducing the desired stock , the former because the 1% rise is expected to be reversed and the latter because the past rise generates a portfolio adjustment effect . |
| 3 | In short , unemployment must be considered as the primary agent causing and maintaining urban deprivation . |
| 4 | Although concentrating mainly on Britain , the study will also make reference to LFS data for France and Germany — countries where public policies promoting and facilitating early withdrawal are more developed . |
| 5 | The daily ritual of meal-times , for example , may often contain a wealth of deliberately and non-deliberately imparted information for the child , in part confirming his status as a child ( children should be seen and not heard , children should finish their cabbage because it is good for them ) , in part defining the stages of growing up ( older children sit on ‘ proper ’ chairs , drink out of ‘ proper ’ cups , and use knives and forks ) , and in part defining and reinforcing certain adult identities ( father carves the joint , mother brings food from the stove ) . |
| 6 | The Teams can assist groups developing and implementing new ideas which will benefit the area , but depend largely on the initiative and drive of local people . |
| 7 | The chances of a 400mph aircraft at 250 feet seeing and avoiding other aircraft are slim . |
| 8 | Secondly , I wish to see our participation at Maastricht emphasising and improving those matters on which the Community is going in the right direction . |
| 9 | Moses Mossop was regularly at work making and mending wooden barrels . |
| 10 | There were one or two adults at the centre of each , directing operations ; elders , stooped and greying , weaving about on the periphery ; and in between , aunts and uncles and cousins and assorted offspring yammering and pawing each other . |
| 11 | Baker expressed grave concern at the Bootle killing and attacked various institutions for the fact that society has become more violent and selfish . |
| 12 | Often she would also spend hours designing and making new clothes for herself and sometimes for Dannii and friends . |
| 13 | I have had a lot of pleasure over the years keeping and breeding tropical fish , and cichlids in particular . |
| 14 | Susanna spent five years developing and writing this book . |
| 15 | You will join the group developing and implementing ground-based speech and data-communication computing networks . |
| 16 | And he can see the high-scoring theme continuing and burying defensive reputations . |
| 17 | Observers from Russia , Portugal ( Angola 's former colonial master ) and America , who had spent much of the six weeks drafting and redrafting endless versions of the ‘ Abidjan protocol ’ — the peace agreement that never was — worked until the last minute trying to reformulate this point to make it acceptable to both sides . |
| 18 | Or , in mystic vein , an order of being was glimpsed in which the 1840s , the 1860s , nihilism , Bazarov , found themselves apocalyptically and teleologically disposed — those two polysyllabic adverbs embracing and transcended all nature , including futurity . |
| 19 | This summer come Post Trail Riding and discover excellent riding on the drovers ' trails and bridle paths of Britain 's Big Country Northumbria . |
| 20 | The Government is also committed to new road safety measures , including raising penalties for drink driving and installing more cameras at dangerous road junctions to film those passing through red lights . |
| 21 | As one of the United Kingdom 's leading institutions of Higher Education employing and educating considerable numbers of technicians , engineers and scientists , we naturally have to plan for our future , which includes ensuring that there will be adequate supplies of well educated technical and scientific employees in the years to come . |
| 22 | Siting in a valley or , as in one case , between two slag heaps can result in eddies forming and prevent effective dispersion . |
| 23 | What , what he 's , what he 's had to say is , is , is to , is to get the ball rolling and get some money , and then we can start looking . |
| 24 | Particularly harrowing are the reports that De Klerk 's political liberalisation ( as far as it goes ) has resulted in many police officers resigning and joining right wing commandos . |
| 25 | A. human bone from Turkey buried in alkaline soil with scrub oak vegetation , showing extensive root marks that have coalesced to give an appearance of surface corrosion ; B. sheep bone from stream ( pH 5.4 ) in Wales showing the result of long term immersion in water , with breakdown of the surface structure of the bone and formation of large scale pitting ; C. bovid bone from Tanzania which was buried in the floor of a hyaena den and subjected to trampling and decay from urine and organic acids , destructuring the surface leaving large scale pits and occasional islands of unaltered surface bone ; D. horse bone from Sphagnum bog in Dartmoor ( pH 3.5 ) showing acid etching of the bone producing pitting following and enlarging original structures in the bone . |
| 26 | Today , however , when she glanced up and saw two men high above her on a jig smiling and nudging each other , she simply fled back to the sanctuary of her office . |
| 27 | For four days he seemed barely alive , but on the fifth he sat up and opened his eyes , ‘ seeing a vast procession with people singing and making all kinds of commotion ’ . |
| 28 | Someone on a boat out there was having a party , people singing and making more noise than the music they were playing . |
| 29 | I do n't think people interrupting and shouting this evening will solve anything quite clearly . |
| 30 | All around the smoking room , gentlemen seemed to be standing in clusters laughing and clapping each other on the shoulder . |