Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the time , as one American policy was ending and another beginning , Vietnam seemed to be exempt from similar considerations . |
| 2 | The defendants ( who had admitted negligence ) had increased the risk of particular damage occurring and that damage had occurred . |
| 3 | The presence of significant amounts of haemoglobin F has a protective effect against sickling and such individuals express relatively mild disease . |
| 4 | Clean pots , staging and all surfaces with a solution of Jeyes fluid . |
| 5 | It was , after all , to be found not only in textile manufacture , but in nailmaking and some branches of the metal smallware trade . |
| 6 | The police catch theyselves and rush us shouting and some start to shoot , straight into we . |
| 7 | This stripy suit for mini wrestlers is a heart-melting design from Manhattan Kids , and it 's ideal for swimming and all kinds of sports . |
| 8 | SINCE 1943 the Royal Air Forces Association has provided a welfare and community service for serving and former members of the Royal Air Forces and their families . |
| 9 | Between July 1988 , when it is now known the department knew of at least seven cases , and August 1989 , when Geoffrey Dear , the Chief Constable of the West Midlands , purged his CID department — moving 39 serving and former squad officers into administrative roles — at least two more men were convicted on the basis of disputed confession evidence . |
| 10 | On 9 August , 349 arrests were made as the military swooped to round up serving and former IRA activists . |
| 11 | Serving and former guardsmen stood to attention as Princess Diana , dressed in black , took the wreath from two old soldiers and placed it at the foot of the memorial in Horseguards Parade . |
| 12 | The man claimed he spoke for a large group of serving and former policemen who styled themselves ‘ the Inner Circle ’ . |
| 13 | The Colony , which had its legal status removed in February [ see p. 38002 ] , was still operating and former inmates had reported that it had been a centre for child sexual abuse and slave labour , and a torture centre for Pinochet 's DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup . |
| 14 | for er for scheming and any alterations . |
| 15 | There are fewer generally accepted criteria about what environmental adaptations are necessary or desirable for pupils with problems in seeing and some debate as to whether any special attention needs to be given to them at all . |
| 16 | Teachers should not seek to be involved in every aspect of the school — administrative/clerical , catering and many aspects of the pastoral function should be contracted out to specialist providers . |
| 17 | Seraph offers nursing care in the home but also catering and some housework . |
| 18 | However , even outer clothing must have required fastening and such wear would also have arisen if they were worn on undergarments in such a way as to come into contact with the inner face of the coarse outer garments ; such extreme wear is perhaps more likely to have occurred in this way than on the outside . |
| 19 | Endill noticed that in the sea of heads surrounding him , no-one else liked looking upwards while eating and some pupils even put up umbrellas to stop the animals from staring down at them . |
| 20 | That 's where us used to go up night times when it was raining and that cold . ’ |
| 21 | I mean you get , straight , no I object to this planning extension , looks fine , and then you start enquiring and all sorts of nasty things appear |
| 22 | Erm do you know what I 'm supposed to be doing ? fucking researching and that lot . |
| 23 | At the same time the quality of cattle was declining and any increase in their numbers did not keep pace with demand . |
| 24 | He , he 's trying to make , he , he 's making him , you aggressive is n't he and I would say that he 's just thinking it 's low if I 'm going and this guy because , you know |
| 25 | Eight years ago we began work in St Luke 's , Cranham where the church was growing and several people were coming to Christ . |
| 26 | There are portions of the original stalls remaining and some trace of the rood door . |
| 27 | An unbelievable 40–1 was available with Surrey Racing and this column , for what it is worth , believes this to have been the most outstanding each-way value of the season and a serious each-way proposition . |
| 28 | But it found 14pc were kept waiting and some respondents said they had not been allowed the music or songs they requested . |
| 29 | This caused much grumbling and many heads were knocked together just to remind everybody who was boss . |
| 30 | A social institution is ‘ legitimate ’ if it is perceived as morally justified ; the problem with the penal system is that this perception is lacking and many people inside and outside the system believe that it is morally indefensible , or at least defective . |