Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 What are also being explored in this paper , although tangentially , are ways of establishing and understanding data about workers ' feelings regarding work .
2 displaying and holding details of employers ' job vacancies ;
3 The head must also make available for inspection at the school information on syllabuses , schemes of work and school hours as well as details of the arrangements for dealing with complaints and providing access to pupils ' records and documents , such as any HMI Report on the school .
4 The same wills also list the liturgical objects — crosses , plates , censers , bells , candle-sticks — that furnished these nobles ' chapels , and the reliquaries made of precious metals and precious stones and housing fragments of saints ' bones , hair and beards , or even the names of holy men , which the rich and powerful kept in their treasuries , or even wore around their necks .
5 LIFFE , for example , has rules that impose capital requirements on its members , prescribe the content of customer agreements , and provide for inspection and monitoring visits to members ' premises , even though these functions are primarily dealt with by the SFA and the clearing house .
6 They doubted whether valid measures of all of the areas of development could be devised ; they maintained that the tests used would have a distorting and trivializing effect on pupils ' learning ( 'this year 's test becomes next year 's curriculum' ) : they pointed to the possibility , notwithstanding the assurances that light sampling techniques would be deployed , that superficial comparisons would be made on the basis of inadequate evidence between areas and between schools ; and they detected in the paraphernalia of mass testing associated with the APU the most sinister intrusion of central government into the work of the schools and the spectre of state-controlled curricula .
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