Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in June ( UX No 387 ) , Hewlett-Packard Co was dropping large hints that it would be announcing and delivering new Snake workstations and upgrades based upon its next-generation PA RISC 7110 chip , Thunderbird , sometime before its fiscal year ends in October . |
| 2 | An independent , non-profit-making organisation , BFRC provides a range of services free of charge , aimed at resolving and preventing flat roofing problems : a conference and seminar service : and technical advisory telephone service ; and technical information literature packs . |
| 3 | When you think about if you just serving two or three hundred to keep opening and shutting bloody cupboard doors , erm , fridge doors , it 's no good . |
| 4 | Gaultier and Montana lead the way by day , inventively re-cutting and styling traditional sportswear shapes . |
| 5 | At the end The Bangles — Hoffs , Michael Steele and sisters Debbi and Vicki Peterson — were at each other 's throats , fighting , swearing and sending each other sheep 's heads in the mail . |
| 6 | This year is important , and we intend to be in the forefront of promoting and supporting this EEC initiative . |
| 7 | The exhibition presented by the Irish women 's group focused on Irish women 's lives in Ireland and Scotland in the last century , not on ‘ promoting and peddling pro-Irish Republican publications and propaganda ’ ! |
| 8 | Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with relevant departments ( Production , Marketing and Finance ) . |
| 9 | Sweetspot Fact File Monica Seles — World No. 1 Age : 18 Born : Novi Sad , Yugoslavia Resides : Sarasota , Florida Parents : Esther and Karolj Brother : Zoltan Hobbies : Modelling , acting , riding , swimming and collecting stuffed animals Sponsors : Fila , Yonex , Perrier , Matrix 1991 Tournament wins : 10 1991 Prize money : $2,457,758 |
| 10 | As well as recording , developing and applying new processing facilities , such as graphics or word processing , within the framework of the personnel information system , the Group Personnel Information Services Department has a responsibility to advise on and co-ordinate developments to the Payroll/Personnel database itself . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Scattering and recoiling structural contour maps . |
| 13 | ‘ Extreme environment ’ robots do such work as inspecting and maintaining nuclear power plants , developing the seabed , and working in space . |
| 14 | State officials must be interested , for the sake of their own power , in guaranteeing and safeguarding healthy capital accumulation , an argument which anticipates the neo-pluralist position of Charles Lindblom ( pp. 293 — 5 ) . |
| 15 | Tivoli Management Environment Release 1.6 adds configuration and change services to the software , claimed to simplify and automate the process of setting up , maintaining and changing large-scale client/server networks , a task that often takes up over half of a system managers time , according to Tivoli . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Re-investigation might show liability attaching and avoid unnecessary Court actions being raised . |
| 18 | But organizing and overseeing Little Tuckett Church Fête had lowered her resistance . |
| 19 | The public and especially hospital consultants are rapidly realising and acknowledging that Trust hospital status is a genuine attempt to address local health needs which is providing increasingly successful health care . |
| 20 | Considerable work has been carried out on methods for analysing and modelling individual time series of observations . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has all its marbles in the right place when it comes to designing and building fault-tolerant Unix systems — it would n't be an important partner of Hewlett-Packard Co if that were n't the case , but it still needs to get its act together on the marketing and finance side . |
| 22 | Version 9 will include all the specifications that must be adhered to for those designing and implementing 64-bit Sparc technology . |
| 23 | Designing and implementing approved marketing plans ; |
| 24 | This instruction does not affect the pattern of word marks in the destination field , but there are other instructions to set or clear the word mark bit in a designated character , to clear all word marks in a designated area , or to copy a source string and word mark to a designated area ( ignoring and clearing any word mark : bits in the destination field encountered in the process ) . |
| 25 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 26 | In the two papers ‘ Procedures for Campaigning ’ and ‘ Campaigns and the Overseas Group ’ , the procedures to be followed in agreeing , resourcing and conducting Christian Aid campaigns are set out . |
| 27 | Anthony Skito have specialists in hairdressing , colouring and perming and offer ten-day perm check where clients may come in ten days after their perm to have their hair checked , washed and blow-dried . |
| 28 | In 1989 Toyota , which then owned 41 per cent of Piper 's Japanese sales agency , acquired an FBO at Long Beach , California which specialises in buying and selling used business jets . |
| 29 | It is apparent that there is considerable , if still tentative , interest in initiating and pursuing co-operative training ventures ; and that their potential for satisfying many of the objectives currently being met ( adequately or inadequately ) by external courses has barely been harnessed . |
| 30 | Linked with the development of the project in schools were plans for initiating and extending local authority inservice provision , as a means of disseminating good practice derived from the experience of selected schools , and to guide schools about to enter the project . |