Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now Martin is looking forward to spending his retirement enjoying outside interests which will include travelling , walking and watching cricket . |
| 3 | Local authorities should not be interfering and wasting charge payers ' money in those ridiculous , trite and stupid ways . |
| 4 | One controlled the code assembling and debugging operation , the other controlled the E(E)PROM programmer . |
| 5 | Whether it was running the Woman 's Institute or assembling and distributing gas masks , it was all the same to them . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Health promotion clinics are diagnosing and treating disease — sometimes with drugs . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The cost of the service was estimated based on screening 1800 patients a year and includes the salary of an ophthalmic photographer , purchasing and processing film , and the servicing and running costs of the van and camera . |
| 13 | its going to come round at you in a minute , so I 'll talk about it until it gets to you , erm , it delighted my children this particular painting , erm and I decided to put my sort of analytical approach to one side erm and do something with that later , so this poem is from my , my children 's point of view and one of the things that are very interested , they were really worried , that , erm , I think it marks the height of the table and the fact that the puppies might fall off and do themselves some harm , that , I 'll read it while its going round and then I can see then , that , so this is , ok , from my children 's point of view this poem , its called Threes , Table laid and waiting , milk place in bowl not to high , they lap and swirl , played and roll , paws distance from knocking and breaking goblet , made from clay . |
| 14 | with the , of the erm , the picture , Threes , Table laid and waiting , milk place in bowl not to high , they lap and swirl , played and roll , paws distance from knocking and breaking goblet , made from clay . |
| 15 | " Will you stop interrupting and pay heed to me ? |
| 16 | disability arts include art which directly represents the experience of Disability , as well as documenting and promoting disability rights campaigns . |
| 17 | PROTECTING AND ENJOYING NATURE |
| 18 | Protecting and enhancing landscape quality |
| 19 | The country 's education system has a vital role to play in hallowing , protecting and furthering inequality . |
| 20 | This pastime attracted such an enthusiastic following that several of the better equipped European brothels provided chambers decorated like railway carriages which shuddered and vibrated mechanically when they were occupied , as well as resounding with chugging and whistling sound effects . |
| 21 | Most operate in highly polluting industries : bleaching and dyeing , electroplating and printing circuit boards . |
| 22 | They show , for example , that relief carvers repeat standardised figures , probably squaring and transferring master draughtsmen 's models . |
| 23 | This process will include retrieving and checking existing data , accessing designs from differing workstations if the domains intersect and consequently relating and checking company standards . |
| 24 | Some patients experience difficulty when talking with nurses about activities such as eliminating and expressing sexuality . |
| 25 | This is , of course , a particularly tricky area , mainly because it needs systematic teaching , in both spelling and reading teaching . |
| 26 | The stimulating article Some library costs and options by Brown ( an economist ) concludes ‘ it seems to be worth acquiring and providing storage for , books likely to be wanted more often than , once in about 1.7 years over a long period ’ . |
| 27 | The final possibility is to " hive up " the trade from Target to Newco , so that Newco commences trading and generates trading income out of which to fund its interest payments directly . |
| 28 | Then Ruby Dobby grew dramatic again , growling and shuddering and recapturing attention . |
| 29 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 30 | However there is a case for considering the role of unions in upholding and maintaining labour rights more generally . |