Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [v-ing] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compact may be seen as taking the relationship between Education and Industry a step closer , by creating a demand for Partnership and providing an Industry-based resource for the curriculum . |
| 2 | Keith Clash , 27 , was jailed for over two months at Bristol Crown Court yesterday after admitting theft and carrying an offensive weapon . |
| 3 | It is certainly not without significance that the Association always maintained a link with the new youth movement by aligning itself with the Boys ' Brigade and playing an active role in the formation of the Scouts . |
| 4 | At a rally of 60,000 supporters at the Afrikaner Voortrekker Monument near Pretoria on May 26 , Andries Treurnicht , leader of the Conservative Party ( CP ) , the official parliamentary opposition , outlined his party 's strategy for reversing the government 's reform programme and achieving an Afrikaner homeland . |
| 5 | Newtonian physics at one time seemed to give support to the idea that the universe was ordered and mechanistic and , therefore , divinely made ; Darwinism challenged many of the basic tenets of Christianity , thereby setting science and religion in opposition and creating an important set of dualities — rationality/irrationality , reason/faith — through which we have come to construct science . |
| 6 | Mind you , if the tourist board thought they could get away with it , they 'd probably claim he spent an afternoon at the local petrol station , buying some anti-smear windscreen wash and a fan belt , before moving on to a gift shop to purchase a handmade stuffed velvet Loch Ness monster and having an appreciative sniff at the perfumed candle display . |
| 7 | He got into the habit of coming down into our cell and asking an endless string of questions on vocabulary , which he normally directed at Terry . |
| 8 | The idea of doing research and pursuing an academic career was common ground to both of them ; indeed they had never considered any alternative . |
| 9 | Gary Howard , 20 , and Lee Brigden , 21 , both from Barking , are accused of committing grievous bodily harm , threatening unlawful violence and possessing an offensive weapon , namely a golf club . |
| 10 | They became ‘ living sculptures ’ , only painting and photographing themselves and , famously , spraying themselves bronze , climbing a pedestal in a gallery and performing an eight-hour mime to ‘ Underneath The Arches ’ . |
| 11 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 12 | Skilled players may choose to hook gently or draw the shot by aiming down the right side of the fairway and encouraging an early rotation of the right hand over the left prior to impact . |
| 13 | Peter often tried to describe what Kate looked like as she stood in the doorway , half in , half out , glancing at her watch and swinging an embroidered bag barely large enough to take a packet of cigarettes . |
| 14 | The necessities of equipping the armed forces , preserving the home population at a decent minimum level and running an efficient war economy brought government control and direction into almost every aspect of people 's lives . |
| 15 | In this case a strategy of building and strengthening an existing practice had combined with organizational arrangements to increase small farmers ' output . |
| 16 | This ignorance continues today , reinforcing racism and giving an ideological justification for the ‘ Third World debt ’ . |
| 17 | Several members of this free-living genus of nematodes may become casual parasites , invading the skin and causing an intense pruritus . |
| 18 | But writing and producing a No.1 album , sharing the bill with Prince and becoming an integral part of ‘ the greatest band of the '80s ’ seemed less obviously within his grasp . |
| 19 | John Berriman , 37 , and Dawn Lazenby , 24 , both of Wentworth Crescent , Braintree , are jointly accused of aggravated burglary and committing an indictable offence while in possession of a firearm . |
| 20 | I was charged with three different offences ; assault , criminal damage and possessing an offensive weapon . |
| 21 | John Wade , 20 , of Hickstead Court , Darlington , appeared before town magistrates yesterday charged with attempted kidnapping and possessing an offensive weapon . |
| 22 | He became eminent in the world of science , editing Nature and playing an important part in establishing the Science Museum in London . |
| 23 | Mr Jack Price , National President of the Air Force Association of the United States of America then addressed Conference , extending his Association 's fraternal greetings to the Association in Conference and presenting an inscribed plaque to the Chairman . |
| 24 | The actor acted in a highly successful film and the company received a substantial sum for his services , paying the actor a small fee and paying an interim dividend to the trust . |
| 25 | Its leader , a Colonel Seymour , was charged with committing common assault on Charles Eyres , the leader of the Croydon branch of the organization , after a dispute in which Eyres claimed that Seymour had misappropriated funds and altered the constitution to turn himself into a virtual dictator ; this led to Seymour drawing a sword and pointing an unlicensed gun at Eyres . |
| 26 | This essentially came about by positing a correlation between ethics and evolution and harnessing an evolutionary approach in service of a collectivist ideal . |
| 27 | ‘ But you must know ! ’ says Howard to Felicity , walking up and down the living-room and clutching an amazed hand to his forehead . |
| 28 | After the expenditure of a large sum — about £150 million or so — on improving the environment and creating an impounded lake behind the barrage , one of the attractions is supposed to be the facility for water sports . |
| 29 | He displayed his contempt for Hollywood at the awards ceremony by refusing to accept the gold statuette and sending an Indian girl in his stead to protest at the way the movie industry had treated the Red Man . |
| 30 | This impressive list could be quite intimidating to any executive managers faced with planning and implementing an organizational transformation . |