Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finn senior was convicted of criminal damage , wounding and possessing an offensive weapon . |
| 2 | These developments hold great promise for severely disabled people who , although dependent on a machine , can have a feeling of relative independence ; their range of control in communicating and getting an appropriate response is increased and they are less dependent on people to carry out a number of everyday living activities . |
| 3 | The theatre was given its own legal status in the Theatres Act 1968 , but the anomalous position of the cinema was not revealed until 1975 , when the President and Secretary of the BBFC were charged with aiding and abetting an indecent exhibition , namely the showing by Classic Cinemas Ltd of the Swedish sex-education film Language of Love . |
| 4 | In New York business and community leaders launched New Yorkers for the NEA , sponsoring and distributing an informative video in praise of the endowment . |
| 5 | Their general responsibility for arresting vagabonds and suspected poachers in the forest sometimes involved organizing and leading an armed expedition , for the Forests were the resort of lawless and desperate characters . |
| 6 | Just as there are many ways of organizing and running an effective school , so there are many ways of running an LEA . |
| 7 | The Liverpudlian writer is producing and directing an all-British film called Getaway due for cinema release next spring . |
| 8 | In this case , buying and selling an equal number of contracts for each leg may lead to an unbalanced spread . |
| 9 | Prescribing analysis and cost data are a computer record of all general practitioner prescribing and provide an excellent research base to investigate changes in prescribing , trends , and the health gain and cost implications . |
| 10 | An important feature of contemporary society is the social desirability of creating and maintaining an independent household . |
| 11 | Along Via San Barnaba you will pass the church for which the street is named , another work by Galeazzo Alessi , although here he was enlarging and modifying an existing building . |
| 12 | I now use Dug , a decomposed poultry manure from Pelco , when planting and give an annual mulch of bark to the acid areas and spent mushroom compost to the rest ; it improves the body of my sandy soil and also works magnificently as a weed suppressor if put on thick enough . |
| 13 | It was a verdict which had fired many a nationalistically minded but hitherto passive young Irishman to join the IRA , and it had prodded Denis into convincing himself that the time had come for him to stop wavering and take an active role in his country 's struggle . |
| 14 | It has three main aims : the first is the democratic process of involving people in thinking , dealing , planning and playing an active part in the development and operation of services that affect their daily lives : the second relates to the value for personal fulfilment of belonging to a community : the third is concerned with the need in community planning to think of actual people in their relation to other people and the satisfaction of their needs as persons rather than to focus attention upon a series of separate needs and problems . |
| 15 | A couple of last year 's sillier pieces of driving provide metaphorical weight to the rumour that at least one of our 26 heroes has a problem prematurely overheating and making an embarrassing mess . |
| 16 | I went shopping and filled an entire cupboard with the sprays and powders and liquids of chemical death . |