Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I stopped walking and stared wide-eyed as the rest of the senescent strollers proceeded out of this dimension . |
2 | I always keep him under tight control when I 'm walking and make sure that he never goes near sheep or lambs , and on the open fell he 's usually on his best behaviour . |
3 | She stopped walking and stood still , folding her arms resolutely across her chest . |
4 | In all these cases ( and this is the central point ) the costs of launching and maintaining each of these publications are in excess of £20m . |
5 | He claimed Commission president Jacques Delors was interfering and putting French domestic interests first to further his own political career . |
6 | With this modeller it is possible to construct an object by assembling and modifying many separate models . |
7 | Computer-aided design companies , by contrast , have concentrated on tapping the speed offered by object-oriented techniques in assembling and modifying vast quantities of blueprints and design data . |
8 | 16.19 From level 5 , the statements of attainment are presented in five strands : the range of literature read , responses to literature , understanding and interpreting non-literary and media texts , study skills and information-retrieval strategies , and knowledge about language . |
9 | The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism . |
10 | The two boys both deny abducting and murdering two year old James in February . |
11 | These include shared care agreements and collaboration over protocols between general practitioners and consultants for diagnosing and treating common conditions ; new roles for community nurses , to encourage innovative forms of specialist and generalist practice ; ‘ hospital at home ’ and other high intensity home care schemes , including terminal care ; developments in community based specialist working such as paediatric home care and mental health and learning disabilities teams ; community hospitals and nursing beds ; and the move of some specialist referral clinics from hospital outpatient departments into primary health care settings — if possible , with general practitioners and community nurses collaborating with their hospital based colleagues in patient management . |
12 | Back in June ( UX No 387 ) , Hewlett-Packard Co was dropping large hints that it would be announcing and delivering new Snake workstations and upgrades based upon its next-generation PA RISC 7110 chip , Thunderbird , sometime before its fiscal year ends in October . |
13 | In the future , harsh economic necessity will dictate that businesses will have to consider employing and promoting more women if they are to survive . |
14 | ABT is the archetypal small engineering company , employing and training local people . |
15 | As one of the United Kingdom 's leading institutions of Higher Education employing and educating considerable numbers of technicians , engineers and scientists , we naturally have to plan for our future , which includes ensuring that there will be adequate supplies of well educated technical and scientific employees in the years to come . |
16 | I have had a lot of pleasure over the years keeping and breeding tropical fish , and cichlids in particular . |
17 | Q. I am interested in keeping and breeding ornamental goldfish , but I would like to broaden my interest by showing them . |
18 | Other requirements might be to agree the implications of a variation , in terms of time and cost , before it is instructed and to provide for keeping and agreeing contemporaneous records . |
19 | I do n't think people interrupting and shouting this evening will solve anything quite clearly . |
20 | After emptying and washing each well , 100 µl of sample or standard ( diluted 1 in 80 in phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.2 , and containing 0.1% Tween and 0.5% bovine serum albumin to prevent non-specific protein binding to the plate ) were added and incubated for one hour . |
21 | Ostensibly it was the life story of an eighteenth-century naval officer who 'd whiled away his spare time documenting and researching contemporary erotica . |
22 | Documenting and predicting global change ; |
23 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
24 | To be a Met Assistant you did n't have to understand the reason why the weather did this or that , you only had to record what was happening and make sure the officer in charge knew what was going on . |
25 | He would go some way to doing so if he told the House tonight that he intends to monitor carefully what is happening and to initiate independent research into the strengths and weaknesses of the new system in its initial stages . |
26 | Peter Thompson reviews what 's happening and offers some timely advice . |
27 | Minton himself saw what was happening and abandoned this practice around 1951 — 2 . |
28 | A common characteristic of social life in the modern village is thus the attempt by newcomers to create an ersatz sense of community by founding and running local organizations — branches of the WEA , amateur dramatics societies , art clubs , etc. — and even building a new ‘ community centre ’ in which to house them . |
29 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
30 | His record for the Urdd and the community generally spans four decades , from being the secretary of Llangwm Aelwyd , where he grew up , to founding and leading two senior branches at Capel Garmon and Bro Cernyw . |