Example sentences of "of [v-ing] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a report published yesterday , he points out that the Government anticipated that the introduction of the council tax , which comes into operation on 1 April , would substantially reduce the costs of administering and collecting local taxation , possibly by as much as 60 per cent . |
| 2 | Against that , the process of recovering and spreading such wastes is labour intensive . |
| 3 | A child 's use of the equipment may well reflect previous learning ; it may be imitative or imaginative , but will certainly provide first hand experience of using and organising everyday objects , together with opportunities for experiment with the way they behave . |
| 4 | This covers a remarkably wide field starting at the installation , calibration and purely functional end of flight recorders and leading on through their recovery from the wreckage and the techniques of repairing and reading damaged recordings to the ultimate interpretation of the spoken words and environmental noises in the cockpit and the determination of the aerodynamic implications of recorded data . |
| 5 | In addition — and this is a concession which the British Government refuses to grant — tax relief is available against the costs of repairing and maintaining historic houses . |
| 6 | Bernard Davies ( 1986 ) has argued that this amounts to a more effective means of disciplining and controlling young people , particularly working class young people , for this training ensures that they conform to the ‘ correct ’ kind of behaviour . |
| 7 | This suggests a number of avenues which historical and aesthetic research might pursue , or at least it offers a way of organizing and disciplining some intuitions . |
| 8 | Both their establishment and function suggest an element of ageism — that older people themselves are not capable of organizing and deciding appropriate agendas . |
| 9 | His basic method became a generic term in the English language , and his special contribution was to develop an economical way of bringing and keeping existing roads up to scratch . |
| 10 | The prize for chemistry was awarded on Oct. 17 to Elias James Corey ( USA ) for finding new ways of producing and synthesising chemical compounds , and the prize for physics on Oct. 17 to Jerome Friedman ( USA ) , Henry Kendall ( USA ) and Richard Taylor ( Canada ) for pioneering the discovery of structure in the protons and neutrons of the atomic nucleus . |
| 11 | to evaluate the evidence obtained of the feasibility of producing and using graduated tests . |
| 12 | A visit by a group of engineers , whose main aim was to look at drilling operations , study environmental issues and research the infrastructure , was closely followed by a team who were investigating the commercial aspects of producing and marketing Russian oil . |
| 13 | These gloomy conclusions are reached in a study of small businesses and their use of new technology by Christine Edwards of Kingston Polytechnic , who interviewed small business owner-managers on the process of adopting and implementing new technology and the benefits and difficulties experienced . |
| 14 | In 1931 Dalton Trumbo fiercely denounced the growing trend by first declaring after a whole spate of films such as The Miracle Woman that he was ‘ beginning to weary of the Salvation Army ’ and then by condemning the practice of sermonizing and adding moral prefaces as ‘ bad art , bad taste , bad logic and bad box-office ’ . |
| 15 | The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism . |
| 16 | There should be evidence of summarising and drawing appropriate conclusions from the evidence obtained during the investigation . |
| 17 | The positive heuristic indicates how the hard core is to be supplemented in order for it to be capable of explaining and predicting real phenomena . |
| 18 | The third interpretation seems to us to be the one which is in line with the philosophy of valuing and supporting each individual , reflected in the growing advocacy movement . |
| 19 | This year is important , and we intend to be in the forefront of promoting and supporting this EEC initiative . |
| 20 | We have also found that the method described for bovine tissue can also be applied to human gall bladder epithelial cells and we are currently in the process of culturing and characterising these cells . |
| 21 | The theory is that these audible or visible things have meaning only in virtue of expressing and evoking mental things , ideas or thoughts . |
| 22 | This involves the specific and limited activity of establishing and enforcing general rules of conduct which enable people to pursue their activities with the minimum degree of frustration . |
| 23 | The exchange of food and drink through dinner parties , coffee mornings , pub evenings , etc. , is a universal means of establishing and maintaining social relations . |
| 24 | It is not a work or method study exercise , but a way of establishing and monitoring agreed measures of performance , as a basis for determining whether action needs to be taken to bring this performance within desired parameters . |
| 25 | N C V O has a proud record over the years , of developing and promoting new initiatives , to meet new needs , and to fill gaps in voluntary sector initiatives . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , much of this vast publicly available information resource is bibliographically ill-organised , is of very variable quality , and is frequently difficult to access or acquire The problems of accessing and acquiring such information have been greatly aggravated by the need for enterprises more and more to compete on a global basis ( compare , for example , the ‘ 1992 ’ initiative ; suddenly , we have to know all about Greece ! ) . |
| 27 | TGAT had the job of rationalising and elaborating this instruction so that subject working groups would operate to a common format . |
| 28 | Another part of the research programme will formulate ways of defining and measuring successful competition abroad . |
| 29 | Even the so-called ‘ sexual function ’ of the family — that is the function of regulating and channelling sexual activity — would appear to be of more limited significance today , although supporters and opponents of the ‘ permissive society ’ alike may both be guilty of confusing talk about and representations of sexual activity with actual practice . |
| 30 | Particular emphasis placed on the problems of regulating and supervising financial conglomerates within the existing national regulatory framework . |