Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , they have concentrated on two main approaches to crime control that they see as appropriate and achievable : increasing the risks and decreasing the opportunities . |
| 2 | No boiling kettles and lugging the bath in from the yard . |
| 3 | It is wrong to think he is supposed to be telling the truth in his songs and presenting a true picture of his personality . |
| 4 | He did n't want to produce and I did n't want to produce , so we ended up writing songs and making the record together . ’ |
| 5 | A Russian scientist has attempted to mimic that development by starting with wild foxes and breeding the most timid ones . |
| 6 | Vanguard , hinting at possible pragmatic advantages to the pro-Libyan stance , declared it was taking a populist , anti-terrorist position : ‘ We must condemn all terrorism even if it means upsetting the Libyans and getting no money from their Embassy ’ ( January 1987 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes I do , ’ Artemis replied , having spotted her stepmother , sitting up on the stone balustrade , slowly swinging her shapely legs and smoking a cigarette . |
| 8 | The front driver 's side of the bus was driven back twelve feet amputating Mr Wright 's legs and killing the three students . |
| 9 | Thirty years after his death in 716 , Boniface criticized him for his disregard of the laws of the Church and for his personal immorality and depicted him as struck with madness while feasting with his nobles , so that he died ‘ gibbering with demons and cursing the priests of God ’ . |
| 10 | Without both , divide-and-rule tactics will open the way to ranking oppressions and putting the groups against each other . |
| 11 | The Gloucestershire Regiment — shortly to face being amalgamated as part of the Governments defence cuts — wants more young recruits and spending a day with them is one way potential soldiers find out if it 's the life for them . |
| 12 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 13 | He 'd end up beating his wife , bullying his kids and eating the parrots . |
| 14 | Some leading exponents of the popular movement believed that if large quantities of money were sent to support the Uprising they would , instead , destroy it by creating political jealousies and deflecting the Uprising from the central theme of self-reliance . |
| 15 | Since the original storage medium for software is paper tape , surviving data and software libraries can be captured and preserved on modern hardware by interfacing to contemporary optical tape readers and storing the programs in a form that can executed by the simulator . |
| 16 | He heads the department dealing with training for radio presentation and travels widely taking training sessions and teaching the use of recording equipment . |
| 17 | The money will be invested on upgrading sorting offices and expanding the Post Office vehicle fleet . |
| 18 | Also included in the IFM recommendations are a national angling centre with teaching facilities and offices and continuing the use of Anglers Consultative Associations but with a wider range of representaion of angling interests . |
| 19 | At least that way I shall feel more confident that it 's Labour Party members and supporters who are selecting candidates and electing the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party and not a Liberal or Tory trade unionist who happens to be paying the political levy . |
| 20 | Our ‘ bus of the sea ’ was off , skimming the waves and rearranging the dancing patterns of the evening light . |
| 21 | The basic philosophy involves farming as far as possible within a closed system : in a nutshell , growing crops to feed the animals and using the manure those animals produce to fertilize the soil in order to grow more crops . |
| 22 | The attitude of the companies is such that I want nothing to do with them ; I like to think we will survive without ruining the lives of the animals and destroying the land . ’ |
| 23 | He then accused her of sending him hate mail , photos of dismembered animals and putting a mutilated doll outside his home . |
| 24 | Outside the ranks of the Party activists , the most common reported positive responses to the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws were of approval for the formal legal framework for segregating Germans and Jews and regulating the treatment of the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 25 | Reciprocating coalitions are an important feature of these multi-male groups and particular friends at the top of the hierarchy can effectively ‘ police ’ the unit , reducing the frequency of quarrels and maintaining a low level of disturbance of pregnant and lactating females . |
| 26 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 27 | " Yes … yes … " he murmured , filling the syringe before my eyes and sending a few playful spurts into the air . |
| 28 | The dazed figure of Tock tumbled out the front door of his battered home , rubbing his eyes and brushing the dust from his hair and pyjamas . |
| 29 | Gradually in this way an association will develop between the word ‘ calm ’ and the feelings of deep muscle relaxation in your body , so that eventually just closing your eyes and thinking the word ‘ calm ’ can induce these feelings . |
| 30 | His second , seven minutes before half-time , was even better , running straight at the hapless Gittens before seeing the whites of Pears ' eyes and drilling an explosive left foot drive high into the net . |