Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool is , in turn , blamed by Wirralians for bringing and spreading all manner of evil across the region . |
| 2 | She showed considerable talent for drawing and had two books on Christian art published in the early 1850s , Symbols and Emblems of Early and Medieval Christian Art ( 1852 ) and The Types and Figures of the Bible ( 1854 ) . |
| 3 | An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of two Acts … for repairing and widening several roads leading to , through , and from the town of Frome in the County of Somerset . |
| 4 | Selective reinforcement , the rewarding of required and approved behaviour , can be a useful technique for teachers , where praise and approval are used for shaping and maintaining desired student performance , especially in the early stages of learning when students need this kind of reassurance and when the work itself has not yet become intrinsically satisfying . |
| 5 | Also available is a file for metal and a rasp for wood which we found very useful for shaping and smoothing these materials . |
| 6 | Mr Pialat also shares with Mr Rivette a capacity for shaping and controlling long sequences . |
| 7 | The major instrument for shaping and formulating these prescriptions remains the treaty . |
| 8 | While the computer is an obvious tool for handling and organizing large quantities of data in the hyper-medium , straight-forward procedural methods can not cope with the complexity of the organization . |
| 9 | Most consumers ‘ certainly fail to recognise the implications of agricultural practices and policy ’ , such as subsidies for producing and promoting full-fat milk rather than semi-skimmed or skimmed milk , and those for butter and meat . |
| 10 | IBM Corp last week boosted the versatility of its Power Visualisation System , a parallel server for generating and manipulating complex images at high speed in applications such as medicine and geophysics , and cut prices on the thing by 25% to 40% , lowering the entry point to $320,000 from $528,000 . |
| 11 | Finally , the 1989 Local Government and Housing Act introduced a new system for financing and controlling local authorities ' capital expenditure . |
| 12 | Other requirements might be to agree the implications of a variation , in terms of time and cost , before it is instructed and to provide for keeping and agreeing contemporaneous records . |
| 13 | Or she might know about rusting and have other reasons for believing that these particular pieces of metal would not rust . |
| 14 | Ball & Stick is a Mac program for representing and displaying molecular structures . |
| 15 | He argues that the body is an ideal vehicle for representing and symbolizing coherent models of experience and , at times , presents an intense framework for cultural expression . |
| 16 | These include shared care agreements and collaboration over protocols between general practitioners and consultants for diagnosing and treating common conditions ; new roles for community nurses , to encourage innovative forms of specialist and generalist practice ; ‘ hospital at home ’ and other high intensity home care schemes , including terminal care ; developments in community based specialist working such as paediatric home care and mental health and learning disabilities teams ; community hospitals and nursing beds ; and the move of some specialist referral clinics from hospital outpatient departments into primary health care settings — if possible , with general practitioners and community nurses collaborating with their hospital based colleagues in patient management . |
| 17 | Other symptoms include chest pain ( commonly left-sided , dull or aching , and unrelated to the degree of physical exertion ; genuine heart pains are usually central , cramp-like , and brought on by exercise ) , headaches ( particularly ‘ tension headache ’ — a band-like pain around the head and back of the neck which begins a few seconds after waking and lasts all day , often accompanied by feelings of depression or despair ) , dizziness or light-headedness ( which comes on when you are sitting still and never heralds a full-blown faint ) , tingling in the fingers or around the mouth ( signifying panic-induced overbreathing ) , and a heightened awareness of bodily processes ( such as blood rushing through your ears , a rumbling tummy , or the thumping of your heart inside your chest ) . |
| 18 | Bleary-eyed after counting and recounting 15,000 layers , they discovered that the climate shifts occurred in less than a decade and that the shifts occurred approximately 1,000 years earlier than previously estimated from the ice cores. although such layer counting has a credibility problem , at the Summit site et all . |
| 19 | However , perseverance paid off and , after melting and filtering 256 tonnes of ice , the team came up with 10,000 micrometeorites . |
| 20 | The next stage is for the UN secretary-general on May 18th to say how he proposes to set up a commission that will , in the 45 days after that , develop a plan for inspecting and destroying these weapons . |
| 21 | A well-established and successful mechanism for developing and transferring new technology is through collaborative projects and industrial clubs . |
| 22 | The first part of the mechanism for developing and delivering that convergence will be regional policy . |
| 23 | Within SCOTVEC , responsibility for developing and updating vocational qualifications lies with five Assistant Directors , each of whom leads a team of staff . |
| 24 | What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters . |
| 25 | And as he mulls over his reasons for behaving as he has and for writing and publishing this record , the footnote status of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ causes it to embrace a wide range of familiar themes . |
| 26 | Any probes which have been previously mapped provide a means for ordering and orienting these contigs into their correct positions on the genome , for if two contigs contain neighbouring mapped probes then it is likely the contigs should be adjacent , even if there are no hybridisations linking them . |
| 27 | Such being the direct evidence for contacts between Greeks and Jews before the time of Alexander , we ask the obvious question : what did Greeks and Jews make of these various opportunities for meeting and knowing each other As for the Greeks , the answer is simple . |
| 28 | The present arrangements for approving and monitoring private care do n't address any of these issues . |
| 29 | In a report published yesterday , he points out that the Government anticipated that the introduction of the council tax , which comes into operation on 1 April , would substantially reduce the costs of administering and collecting local taxation , possibly by as much as 60 per cent . |
| 30 | Against that , the process of recovering and spreading such wastes is labour intensive . |