Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coach tour of the city seeing or visiting the Servian walls , Aurelian walls , gates of the city and Praetorian camp , pyramid of Cestius , temples of the Forum Boarium , theatre of Marcellus , mausoleum of Augustus , Pantheon and Baths of Diocletian . |
| 2 | It is not restricted , as in ordinary litigation which are proceedings between parties , to accepting or rejecting the respective contentions of the claimant on the one hand and the adjudication … officer on the other … . |
| 3 | Negative controls were obtained by omitting or exchanging the primary antibodies . |
| 4 | Subsequently the central department can influence events by issuing circulars , guiding , instructing or exhorting the local authorities , and it can carry out inspections , exercise confirmatory and adjudicatory powers and so forth . |
| 5 | I was booing and hissing the bad guys with the best of them , and I usually hate audience participation . |
| 6 | Clearly while we do have gliders that spin , it is vital to give pilots enough experience to recognise what is happening and to make the right moves instead of panicking and doing nothing . |
| 7 | I am also encouraged by the stated principles of conserving the appearance of the central city , and of protecting and enlarging the open spaces , which in some areas are at present lacking . |
| 8 | This feature relates solely to the characteristics of the states comprising the membership of international society and is essential to explaining and understanding the international arenas where non-state actors operate . |
| 9 | Finally , and by way of summarising and emphasising the main points of this chapter , an investigation by Graesser , Hoffman and Clark ( 1980 ) will be described briefly . |
| 10 | Gallagher walked after him , halting only to hit , weaving and ducking the wild swings of the powerful fist . |
| 11 | I itemise below the categories of work we could carry out for you in relation to establishing and developing the early stages of your group 's development programme , together with fee estimates . |
| 12 | SERAFIN : ‘ From Greenwich to Westminster ’ — which I should think would involve somewhat similar considerations — ‘ even though it takes longer , even though I ca n't read or watch television to keep myself entertained at the same time , even though it demands a greater expenditure of concentration and nervous energy — and , one might possibly add , physical labour in pushing and pulling the various levers and pedals involved … ’ |
| 13 | The selection of Dewi Morris ahead of Robert Jones is mystifying and exacerbates the potential problems to be experienced at half-back . |
| 14 | She is a body in a room ; she is the room ; her head takes off to become a camera snapping and exposing the million thoughts flashing through her brain every second . |
| 15 | Everyone was clamouring , as they ate and drank and the girls went round the table , serving and taking the finished platters to the sink where Sabina was busy wiping and stacking . |
| 16 | In the innovation area attention is being devoted to developing and elaborating the evolutionary theories of technical change and economical development deriving from the work of Schumpeter , Nelson and Winter and others . |
| 17 | ( 7 ) While the proposal is being developed , schools are visited by the DCSLs , who describe and explain the procedures for ordering and acquiring the chosen materials . |
| 18 | The boundary-maintaining function , as stated by Erikson , says that crime and the response it evokes provide the essential function of defining and maintaining the moral boundaries of society . |
| 19 | ( ii ) By reading and discussing good examples , pupils should come to understand the functions of the impersonal style of writing used in much academic — and particularly scientific — writing and to recognise the linguistic features , eg the passive , subordination , that characterise it . |
| 20 | The central objective of that method is to exploit research into second language learning , and to equip students with a practical mastery of speaking , listening , reading and writing skills , whilst maintaining and extending the intellectual demands on the learner . |
| 21 | Normal health can only be restored by recovering and replacing the missing organs or essence which have been abstracted . ) |
| 22 | ‘ I used to see and feel things in the house , but being a child I just took it for granted that everybody else was seeing and feeling the same things . |
| 23 | The first group , and by far the most important , consists of agencies for financing and managing the social services : education , health , pensions , child benefits , and some other minor services . |
| 24 | The job done , we repaired to the kitchen door to see literally what was cooking and to take the printed menus from Angus to put on the tables . |
| 25 | The simple fact is that making the prehistoric — that is , the repressed — part of the mind conscious is a vital aspect of the further development of the ego because conscious insight into itself and its motivation is essential to the ego 's rationality and competence in administering and mastering the instinctual drives of the id . |
| 26 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 27 | They 're members of the Taylor Woodrow team and part of the consortium which is designing and constructing the largest underseas transport system in the world . |
| 28 | We were also impressed with the raising of teachers ' awareness through visits to library suppliers and book exhibitions and the replacement of " buying blind " through catalogues with a system of actually browsing and handling the available alternatives before making a choice . |
| 29 | On Mr Carr 's instructions , his in-house accountant noted which stock lines AY was testing and altered the other lines of stock on a computer spread sheet . |
| 30 | The holy weapon with which he did the Lord 's work , cleansing and punishing the fornicating Jezebels of the night , and with which he had punished the sodomite . |