Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because some discretion about the curriculum had been restored to the manager , this might have meant that the task of timetabling and deciding priorities in staff appointments became easier . |
| 2 | She wanted to touch something , to hold on to something before she spoke , but there was nothing stable , only the hem of the sheet , twisting and giving way in her grip . |
| 3 | Some of the earliest images are of leaping and swimming dolphins that feature on painted frescoes in the Minoan temple of Knossos on Crete , dating back over 3000 years to when the Minoan civilisation ruled much of the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | Now Martin is looking forward to spending his retirement enjoying outside interests which will include travelling , walking and watching cricket . |
| 5 | I could see through slitted eyes many people who had the comfort of being three-dimensional , walking and talking words that I knew . |
| 6 | This ensures that when commuters ' cars are absent during the day the space they free is incorporated into the pavement for walking and playing uses , not into the carriageway where it would encourage higher speeds . |
| 7 | She loved travel , took walking and cycling holidays abroad , and was a good mountain climber . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ said McAllister , jumping up ; she liked walking and doing things rather than sitting about , even if she did enjoy knitting and plain sewing more than she had ever thought that she would . |
| 9 | And so on , in a potentially infinite regress of grandadology , wailing and gnashing teeth at the decline of family life , parental irresponsibility , declining national character , and the need for a firm reassertion of authority . |
| 10 | Rogers had flown over the Front many times , and he thought of it as two huge armies entrenched against each other , launching and repelling attacks massively and obviously ; but now , he supposed , the fog must have dissolved the armies into isolated soldiers , each fighting his own tiny battle , with no way of knowing whether his side was winning or losing . |
| 11 | Local authorities should not be interfering and wasting charge payers ' money in those ridiculous , trite and stupid ways . |
| 12 | ‘ Sean had no business coming up there for me , interfering and giving orders and upsetting everyone here and there . ’ |
| 13 | One controlled the code assembling and debugging operation , the other controlled the E(E)PROM programmer . |
| 14 | Whether it was running the Woman 's Institute or assembling and distributing gas masks , it was all the same to them . |
| 15 | They have identified ( Bruner , Jolly , and Sylva , 1976 , p.15 ) the basic function of play as ‘ the opportunity for assembling and reassembling behaviour sequences for skilled action ’ . |
| 16 | Among the latest kitchen appliances on display will be revolutionary new cookers from British Gas , juice mills , double skillet cooking pans , ‘ Micro Crisp wrap ’ ( for browning and crisping pastry in the microwave ) , the latest range of Tupperware containers and the best non-stick bakeware . |
| 17 | E. A. H. Roberts , and later E. P. ( later Sir Edward ) Abraham , both students of Robinson 's , succeeded in purifying and crystallizing lysozyme , while Chain collaborated in showing that it was indeed an enzyme , as Fleming had suggested , and that it decomposed an essential constituent of the cell wall of those organisms which were sensitive to its effect . |
| 18 | In the next 30 years considerable progress was made in purifying and crystallizing proteins . |
| 19 | The boys have denied abducting and murdering James and attempting to abduct another child . |
| 20 | Two 10-year-old boys have been charged with abducting and murdering James , and are due to appear at Preston Crown Court later this year . |
| 21 | Two eleven year old boys have denied abducting and murdering James and the attempted abduction of another boy . |
| 22 | SIR , — Dr Lerman and colleagues ' report ( May 1 , p 1105 ) on circulating N-terminal atrial natriuretic peptide as a marker for symptomless left-ventricular dysfunction , and your accompanying commentary by Professor Barnett on the diagnosis of symptomless left-ventricular dysfunction , prompt us to draw attention to another promising analyte for diagnosing and monitoring heart failure — cyclic guanosine monophosphate ( cGMP ) . |
| 23 | Some such concept is required to explain why different individuals reach different solutions in diagnosing and providing remedies for particular situations . |
| 24 | Health promotion clinics are diagnosing and treating disease — sometimes with drugs . |
| 25 | His inquiries and interpretations will inevitably draw polluting and contaminating ideas to the surface , for they are a result of his place as an ‘ institutional shaman ’ and mirror his position as a liminal mover in the organization . |
| 26 | Beset with cooling and undercarriage problems , the Keiun made one flight only , on May 8 , 1945 and this was brought to a premature close by high engine temperatures . |
| 27 | By 1660 , the mill had been built up to quite a substantial and sophisticated concern , now housing three pairs of fulling stocks , dye houses and shearing and warping rooms . |
| 28 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
| 29 | This can be illustrated from a wide variety of cases : the uses of literacy for social control in nineteenth century Canada , for instance , where any ‘ critical ’ element was carefully excluded ( Graff , 1979 ) ; the restriction of the content of written forms to religious tracts by the Methodist missionaries who introduced literacy to Fiji in the nineteenth century ( Clammer , 1976 ) ; the examples from British literacy campaigns that show how illiteracy developed in schools because of the class-based nature of schooling ( Mace , 1979 ) ; the uses of literacy for religious and symbolic purposes in Ghana ( Goody , 1968 ) ; the greater trust placed by thirteenth century knights in England on seals and symbols as means of legitimating charters and rights to land and their suspicion of the written document as more likely to be forged and inaccurate ( Clanchy , 1979 ) ; the development in Iranian villages of forms of literacy taught in Koranic schools into forms of literacy appropriate for commercial trading in a rapidly modernising and urbanising economy ( Section 2 ) . |
| 30 | Long means a bank is purchasing and accumulating deposits in a currency whereas short implies a run-down of deposit balances in a currency ( possibly even a loan situation existing in a nostro account with a correspondent bank ) . |