Example sentences of "and [prep] [v-ing] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its skull — two metres long — was well developed , with three strong pointed horns useful for defence and for stripping some of the remaining shorter fronds , resembling the cycads used in Florida as indoor pot-plants . |
| 2 | One other committee brought into existence as part of the project structure is the Inservice Panel , which is charged with the responsibility of developing staff-development and inservice activities and of articulating these with the county 's existing inservice training ( INSET ) programme . |
| 3 | Here , briefly , I want to take their critique seriously as a way of identifying the issue of value , of resisting the more celebratory aspects of an accommodation to the logic of commodification and consumption , and of recovering some of the ground lost or forfeited by critique . |
| 4 | What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication . |
| 5 | We hope your debates prove interesting and decisi decisive in furtherance of your own policies and in addressing some of the problems which we face in our society at large . |
| 6 | If , in briefly tracing the development of the idea of democracy from its Greek beginnings , and in exploring some of the problems which the idea of democracy involves , we hold fast to this central principle of popular power , much that might otherwise seem puzzling ought to become clear and comprehensible . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted a really good box that I could work from , or that someone could work for me — which is what happens nine times out of ten — and then run direct into the amplifier without losing any gain , without gaining any hum and without losing any of the real naturalness of the Fender Strat and the Vox amp . ’ |
| 8 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 9 | There are many calorie counting booklets and slimming books available , but most experts agree that the best type of dieting is a change to new eating habits , based on the type of balanced diet outlined earlier in the chapter , and on eating less of the high energy foods — fats and refined carbohydrates ( sugars ) . |
| 10 | I assure my hon. Friend that I very much look forward to visiting his constituency and to meeting some of the industrialists whose interests he energetically represents . |
| 11 | So if group captain White has already given you an example of the reduction we 've made in in some of our er scalings of those equipment , er it was also suggested by the contractors that economies could be achieved by reducing the number of bases , the extent to which all squadrons should be fully multi role equipped and by contractualising more of the second and third line support , erm , we and the other partners are still considering these proposals in detail er and have n't actually taken decisions yet but there are certainly some possibilities in that area for er economies against the original cost estimate . |
| 12 | It offers an opportunity to improve the environment of the United Kingdom generally , by taking traffic off the roads and by diverting some of the airline traffic which causes such congestion because the link will probably provide an equally fast alternative route to the continent . |