Example sentences of "and [v-ing] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 2 | We have already touched on the question of mixed artificial and daylighting in an earlier chapter . |
| 3 | It has the effect of increasing the surface area of a solution , thus increasing its speed of activity , and assisting in the total capability of a solution to suspend dirt much of it ending up trapped in the foam . |
| 4 | I had expected it to be best for trenching and shaping in the vertical position , but on all but the softest of timbers it failed to supply a substantial cut . |
| 5 | All cetaceans draw in fresh air through this nasal orifice down into their lungs , releasing it and drawing in a fresh supply whenever they return to the surface . |
| 6 | You can alter the numbers by : - 1 ) Highlighting the part you want to change with the mouse and typing in the new value ( the old value is automatically deleted ) . |
| 7 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 8 | All round the coast fishing provided the chief by-employment , outranking both clothing and tinning in the south-eastern quarter of the county . |
| 9 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 10 | Whereas Types 1–4 , are all variants of the basic two-tier model of primary school management , in this type the coordinator and curriculum leaders represent a significant and formally recognized additional layer in the management structure , running their own meetings and development programmes , reporting back to the head and the staff as a whole , and contributing in a distinctive way to overall school policy . |
| 11 | The price wars that have left them bleeding and dying in the personal computer field this year are going to spread to the margin-rich personal computer server , Computer Reseller News predicts . |
| 12 | Walking and walking in the pissing rain . |
| 13 | To burst it now would be to risk the messiness of it re-grouping , possibly cloning itself across the infected area and returning in a small battalion . |
| 14 | It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again . |
| 15 | The ensemble includes two flutes , one doubling piccolo : Mozart never wrote a serenade for wind using flutes , but of course The Magic Flute there had to be flutes , Papageno 's pipes too , represented at the very beginning of the first movement , and returning in the second movement , by the piccolo . |
| 16 | Some conscripts were able to live at home for at least part of their service , reporting for duty at 5.30 a.m. and returning in the late afternoon — but usually only those who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it . |
| 17 | Fielding and fogging In the above example Anne hears what Bill says , but does n't allow herself to get deflected from her purpose . |
| 18 | The Safety Commission of the International Air Transport Association , IATA , has recommended a partial ban aboard aircraft on electronic devices such as computer games made by Nintendo Co Ltd , to avoid interference with aircraft systems : it calls for a ban on the use of all passenger-carried electronic devices during taxi , takeoff , initial climb approach and landing in a confidential letter written by the committee and obtained by Reuters . |
| 19 | Smoke on the Water E5/6 6b , Woman in Chains E4/5 6a and Rigging in the Frigging Arête E4 6a . |
| 20 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 21 | The sun beating down on them and the children splashing and laughing in the shallow end . |
| 22 | present their ideas , experiences and understanding in a widening range of contexts which require an increasing awareness of audience and purpose ; |
| 23 | He unhitched his mare , and led her warily down the slope to the Goldbach stream , stumbling and shivering in the raw morning air . |
| 24 | Twice Michael had lashed out at him and hurt him , only to be contrite and loving in the next breath . |
| 25 | Another aspect of this change is the erm the change in line fifty eight , where the business and saving in the current year carried forward has been increased to seven , nine , one , from five , nine , one , you can see in the report and you will see that |
| 26 | The final report of the working party considering the content of music courses in the National Curriculum strongly affirms the centrality of performing , composing and listening in the new syllabus . |
| 27 | In the latest theft , a man escaped with jewellery worth more than £10,000 , after stabbing a shop assistant in the hand and escaping in a stolen car . |
| 28 | For those who rear children , one of the most difficult tasks if not the most difficult , is learning the art of instilling and developing in the young mind that mysterious thing which we call the conscience . |
| 29 | Public attention to literacy often focusses on either ‘ illiteracy ’ — the problems many adults encounter with the requirements of reading and writing in the modern world — or with professional — often literary — writing . |
| 30 | Only a quarter of children with a good relationship and living in a discordant home showed a conduct disorder in a study reported by Rutter ( 1979a ) , compared to three-quarters of those lacking such a relationship . |