Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The less well-off are doing things like swapping chocolate biscuits for cheaper plain ones ; the better-heeled are staying out of restaurants and eating gourmet meals at home instead . |
| 2 | This includes those who are temporarily between jobs and drawing unemployment benefit to tide them over until the new job is taken up . |
| 3 | She knew they could kick well and seeing ballet dancers on pointe , not being a dancer , thought it would be simple to combine the two . |
| 4 | John Paul Reilly , 22 , of The Lodge , Sketterskelfe , Yarm , admitted failing to produce driving licence and using motor car without insurance , fined £220 plus £20 costs , licence endorsed , six points . |
| 5 | You 'll live ashore , sailing by day and enjoying village life by night . |
| 6 | I believe that the polytechnics and other public service institutions should leave to the universities the essential functions of pursuing and transmitting specialist knowledge through research and scholarship and that , drawing on this knowledge should concentrate on the no less difficult and important task of meeting this wider demand from potential learners from 18 to 80 . |
| 7 | A protracted guerrilla war in Panama , with back-street snipings on Christmas Eve and exploding Canal locks on Christmas Day , is something else altogether . |
| 8 | The Elefriends campaign has two objectives — supporting anti-poaching forces in the field , and tackling consumer markets for ivory around the world . |
| 9 | Fascism , racism , anti-Semitism and attacks on lesbians and gay men are on the increase and gaining ground year by year . |
| 10 | Other talks will cover colour , composition and capturing animal personality in drawing . |
| 11 | On January 3 , 1979 , road transport drivers stopped work over a 25 per cent claim , paralysing dock movements , starving industry of supplies , putting thousands on short time and causing panic buying of food and threats of rationing . |
| 12 | If one works in logarithms , the relationship between y and x becomes linear : Hence , it is quite simple for accountants to work out the learning rate for their industry/firm by converting observations of y and x to logarithms and regressing log x against log y . |
| 13 | Twelve years ago , Ice-T was robbing jewellery stores , getting shot in drive-bys and selling hand grenades to street gangs in Los Angeles . |
| 14 | The Profitboss received his professional training in the back streets of the business , selling ideas for peanuts and kicking garbage cans for profit . |
| 15 | This year the organisation will unveil programmes for distributing copies of its SQL specifications and evaluating vendor products for conformance . |
| 16 | Stock control for garden store , monitoring movement of stocks and providing expenditure information by type and department . |
| 17 | What it can offer will be illustrated in case studies below , but can be summed up as a general information carrier , providing instant access to a variety of information which is more up to date than printed sources an educational service , providing information on new technology , higher education , careers , educational developments and new educational products a gateway service , providing access to remote databases such as ECCTIS ( see below ) a service providing access to other viewdata systems via Bulletin ( W.M. ) , Monitel a mailbox facility , allowing electronic communication between schools and other users and providing contact points for school librarians and teachers a software service providing telesoftware and enabling users to obtain access to software via Prestel Education and Micronet a microviewdata service , allowing users to create their own databases through Prestel |
| 18 | Most hotels offer a one-bone service , welcoming well-behaved dogs and providing doggie bowls on request . |
| 19 | Their duties include admitting students to the Course and providing programme advice to stage I students . |
| 20 | The commodification and rising class status of music hall song is more easily explained by referring to the penetration of culture by market relations than to the influence of musical literacy ; the increasingly extensive and homogeneous market demanded more songs more quickly than oral methods could supply . |
| 21 | touring and trekking rucksack ideal for weekend backpacking . |
| 22 | To judge from the numerous clay copies of human skulls , plastered with clay and having cowrie shells in place of eyes , from the Sepik River , a similar practice obtained in New Guinea in recent times . |
| 23 | Objectively , it is true that Okapi nearly always retrieves as much as or more than LIBERTAS , but LIBERTAS sometimes outputs records in a more sensible order , keeping editions of the same work together and taking word adjacency into account in the weighting procedure ( so that records containing the actual search statement come out first ) . |
| 24 | It proposes a series of measures which include increasing the production and distribution of AV programmes , making more people aware of their potential for education and nation-building , offering more training in AV skills , and modifying communication legislation in order to provide more democratic access to audio visual media at all levels of society . |
| 25 | One method of controlling these costs is to link the production of drawings and obtaining planning permissions to payment . |
| 26 | He became scientific adviser to the firm of telegraph engineers founded by his father , in partnership with Josiah Latimer Clark [ q.v. ] , in about 1869 , working on the development of techniques for duplexing signals in submarine telegraph cables , and making precision measurements of resistance and capacity . |
| 27 | At SKF , the disturbance allowance is paid one month after the transfer has been agreed by the employee , while at Brown & Root , employees receive their disturbance allowance and housing assistance grant on completion of their move . |
| 28 | Elmwood Business Training at Elmwood College is currently preparing material for the SCOTVEC National Certificate Modules on Training Methods and Assessing Trainee Performance for delivery to Russian staff at the new Ramenskoe International Training School in Moscow . |
| 29 | This may , according to Smith , stimulate competitor economies against the home economy or cause domestic inflation as money is printed to resolve balance of payments and falling demand problems at home . |
| 30 | Photography would n't let him go , however , and after serving out his apprenticeship with various studios he went freelance , working to commission and supplying picture libraries with travel shots . |