Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planning must then design the introductory and motivating unit ( the " lead lesson " , the " starter pack " , an introductory film , or whatever is the best agent for the particular purpose ) , a schedule of subsequent activity anticipating varieties of use and as many of the consequent hazards as can be foreseen , and the expected conclusion ; and at every stage it is important to be clear about intentions and objectives , learning points , and how it is proposed to monitor the continuing success of the work in achieving these objectives . |
| 2 | But he could feel her trembling with excitement , even through the incessant and stupefying vibration of walls , floor and ceiling . |
| 3 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 4 | In virtually every locality in the occupied territories , popular neighbourhood committees established themselves , assuming responsibility for public hygiene , health , education ( after schools were closed ) , maintaining a watch on the streets for the approach of Israeli troops or settlers , organizing household production , distributing agricultural produce to the needy and reclaiming land . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a breakfast cereal , ’ the tall and ducking boy explained . |
| 6 | Al-Kadir , the timid and vacillating ruler of Valencia , capitulated without delay , restoring the tribute he had been paying to El Cid before his second banishment . |
| 7 | Attempts to delay stent clogging by prescribing long term antibiotics or by the mucolytic action of aspirin have met with little success , though recent studies suggest that silver impregnation of the stent and omitting side holes may be helpful . |
| 8 | The theory is that the user , not knowing the ‘ technical ’ description of the product , refers to it by its artificial title which becomes built into the administrative and ordering system , emerging as repeat orders for the supplier . |
| 9 | Work handled in London and Ipswich is also being switched to Lytham as part of a reorganisation that will see all the administrative and servicing work for life and pensions handled in Lancashire . |
| 10 | None of the banter Lou heard , however , compared with the stories he told about mutual acquaintances — sometimes in the embarrassed and blushing presence of the people about whom he talked . |
| 11 | When you next indulge in self-stimulation , instead of summoning up the prone and panting form of some nymph of your fervid fancy , at the moment of climax I want you to contemplate your own dappled visage . |
| 12 | The decisions involved in a budget are never easy , but this year the Chancellor has to be concerned about the high and rising level of unemployment , the danger of renewed inflation as a result of the sharp depreciation of the pound , the large and rapidly growing budget deficit and the deficit on the balance of payments . |
| 13 | The decisions involved in a budget are never easy , but this year the Chancellor has to be concerned about the high and rising level of unemployment , the danger of renewed inflation as a result of the sharp depreciation of the pound , the large and rapidly growing budget deficit and the deficit on the balance of payments . |
| 14 | Such humane pressures were reinforced by concern about the political , military and economic implications of continuing to produce a physically sub-standard nation , and of the loss of population caused by the high and rising infant mortality rate . |
| 15 | Later sources had it that the king was murdered : Geoffrey le Baker , writing thirty years after the event , provides the vivid details of the brutal and degrading way in which he is supposed to have met his death , but Dr Cuttino and Dr Lyman have recently suggested that the story of his escape to Ireland and then via France to Cologne where he ended up as a hermit may not be wholly imaginary . |
| 16 | Realistically , South Africa is the only country in the southern hemisphere which has the commercial and playing infrastructure to host a World Cup on its own . |
| 17 | I hope that as a result of visiting the vehicle , you will be more aware of the career possibilities in Science and Technology and of the interesting and fulfilling work opportunities they offer . |
| 18 | I hope that as a result of visiting WISE VI you , your colleagues and pupils will be more aware of the career possibilities in Science and Technology and of the interesting and fulfilling work opportunities they offer , both through study in further and higher education and subsequently employment . |
| 19 | Apple Blossom Afternoon is the funny and moving story of an ordinary man who takes a gamble with extraordinary results . |
| 20 | One of the assets of the fair is the presence of provincial dealers who gain a London audience during this highpoint in the social and dealing season . |
| 21 | By the middle of the twentieth century , Adorno found himself confronted with a cultural field in which the squeezed and narrowing pinnacle of aesthetic difference and negation had all but detached itself completely from the squat , commodified mass of capitalist ‘ affirmative ’ culture . |
| 22 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
| 23 | ‘ FALLACIES of the modern worldview have to do with the conception of the world as substance or machinery , mistaking abstractions for reality , confusing origins and truth , failing to attribute feeling to things that feel , recognising ethics as exclusively anthropocentric , thinking a posteriori , objectifying facts as separated from values , reducing the complex to the simple and dividing knowledge into distinct disciplines that produce experts who are often wrong . ’ |
| 24 | If the woven and stocking stitch stripes are both quite wide there will be a contrast in warmth between the thick woven stripes and the thinner stocking stitch stripes . |
| 25 | The reader is constantly involved in the delicate and tantalizing question of the relation of the parts and the product of their interrelationship . |
| 26 | The locomotives were placed in position by hauling , tender first , the preceding and following service trains . |
| 27 | Probably the physics of the mid-nineteenth century was not as spectacular as that of the preceding and following period , but its theoretical advances were indeed very impressive . |
| 28 | Millions of viewers saw the vicious and disbelieving interrogation of a woman who went to the police saying she had been raped . |
| 29 | The enlightened Bazarov had inherited , was continuous with , took a stage further , the liberal and Westernizing impulse of the 1840s which itself followed the Decembrist uprising of 1825 , an aristocratic bid for reform by men who had chased Napoleon out of Russia and had later felt the civilizing influence of Paris . |
| 30 | The first of these is older than the second , and has acquired a bad name ; indeed , it acquired it fairly early , in some part from the monumental and unappealing system of Herbert Spencer . |