Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ft , or the same floor space could be obtained on a smaller part of the site by building higher , and so releasing land for car parking and other uses . |
| 2 | Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded . |
| 3 | The committee in School G felt that the grant was sufficiently significant to focus the minds of participants , yet small enough to force animated and mutually informing debate about book use and priorities . |
| 4 | Those persistent but slightly fattening habits which are the key to your weight problem could be : having ‘ densely packed ’ calories at meals ( that means having a lot of fat , either visible such as butter on your bread or invisible like butter in a cake ) ; snacking in between meals , especially if those snacks include cream , alcohol and sugar ; and not expending energy with exercise to use up the calories . |
| 5 | Mention has been made to the paperwork , I think that it 's worth reminding ourselves that a lot of the paperwork that has been generated , is a direct result of Conservative government introduced legislation , particularly cri criminal justice er , legislation , which requires a considerable amount of paperwork , erm , to be completed by officers , quite often in long , in longhand , and not making use of technology , where in fact they er , a great deal of time and effort could be con , er could be er , saved . |
| 6 | The Islamic Interim Afghan Government ( IIAG ) , elected from the seven Pakistan-based mujaheddin groups in February 1989 [ see p. 36449 ] , was marred by disunity and came under heavy criticism from both Afghan opposition groups and the United States government as being unrepresentative , excluding as it did representatives of the eight factions based among 2,000,000 , mainly Shia , refugees in Iran , and largely lacking representation of field commanders based inside Afghanistan . |
| 7 | Since it is the poet himself who is the subject , the poem comes across as a very genuine and deeply moving piece of work which regards the real feelings and fears of one who is in the process of losing his own life , rather than , as convention would have it , those of one who has lost another . |
| 8 | This creates opportunities for accountants to act as experts , preparing a report on the subject of the suit or prosecution and possibly giving evidence in court as an expert witness . |
| 9 | But they are still surviving and they were surviving and still paying rent on land before nineteen forty nine . |
| 10 | The new team must have some response which goes beyond tamely printing and busily marketing ream after ream of gilt-edged stock . |
| 11 | Waiters scurry to and from their cafes and tavernas , weighed down by great trays of food and drink , tripping over cats and noisily claiming right of way over passing cars . |
| 12 | The focus is placed on the user 's information needs and overall searching behaviour in order to build a conceptual framework for qualitative research on the use and evaluation of online catalogues . |
| 13 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 14 | Experiment of speaking name aloud into machine and then finding face in image made by sound-waves . |
| 15 | The year of grace is found in Saxon documents of both a royal and civil nature at this time , in the term ab incarnatione , sometimes supplementing and sometimes replacing dating by indiction — of which more later . |
| 16 | From M T Woodcraft , a full-sized and fully working barrow in iroko costs £134 . |
| 17 | Berg implies that they settled for a stable relationship , Frances acting the perfect Hollywood wife and ultimately finding consolation in religion , while Sam 's unspent emotions were burned off in work . |