Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] and [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , however , a difference between making an assessment of conduct in a professional negligence case and evaluating a business decision . |
| 2 | Drugs movies such as Naked Lunch and My Own Private Idaho seem in many ways to play deliberately on the similarities between drug experience and watching a film : both of these are clearly just as much concerned with seeing wonderful things in the dark as they are with falling apart under pressure . |
| 3 | It is clear that the Committee " s project of combating the " diseased " majority cultures and sustaining a healthy sense of Englishness by mobilizing literature in education , has little place for serving industrial needs . |
| 4 | ‘ Practical work will involve analysing a case study and developing a ‘ behavioural ’ plan to deal with difficult people ’ . |
| 5 | The project , which will involve digging of two sloping tunnels , excavating disposal chambers deep in the basement rock and constructing a rack-and-pinion railway , will cost around £1.25 billion . |
| 6 | This is crucially important for re-take candidates who may be resubmitting UCCA forms and requiring a lot of attention . ’ |
| 7 | It recommended doing away with juries in complicated fraud cases and using a special tribunal of a judge and a couple of chaps who understand what 's going on in court . |
| 8 | Ruth Hilali , who 's fifty and formerly from Worcester , but now of no fixed address , is charged with stealing more than six thousand pounds from the Kurdish Refugee Association and making a false statement to obtain a passport . |
| 9 | Following their disappointing performance against the Dutch on Saturday when they lost 5-1 , England made a number of changes , including dropping captain Richard Leman and introducing a young right-wing triangle of Chris Mayer , Russell Garcia and Rob Hill . |
| 10 | It has a hackneyed , distasteful , condescending ring to it and an overview by its very nature risks marginalising and trivialising a group of totally unique individuals whose artistic endeavours can not be conveniently grouped underneath one big frilly umbrella . |
| 11 | In July 1990 the formation of a Party of National Solidarity ( PSN ) , headed by Cardoso Ribeiro and claiming a membership of 7,000 was reported . |
| 12 | Opening the side window and thrusting a hand outside into the slipstream caused an ( almost ) balanced turn ; with two people , and on a calm day , I 'm convinced that the aeroplane could be flown hands and feet off , simply by leaning back and forth , and using hands as mini-ailerons . |
| 13 | Candidates passing the Shorthand examination and submitting a well-typed transcription will be awarded a certificate endorsed to this effect . |
| 14 | Candidates passing the Shorthand examination and submitting a well-typed transcription will be awarded a certificate endorsed to this effect . |
| 15 | Candidates passing the shorthand examination and submitting a well-typed transcription will be awarded a certificate endorsed to this effect . |
| 16 | No-one very serious about anyone else , just a crowd of friends all having a good time , walking up the mountain on a lovely day , drinking the spring water and having a picnic . |
| 17 | Anyway , ‘ Butterfly Girl ’ always reminds me of that bit in The Wicker Man where Britt Ekland is naked and writhing and patting suggestively on Edward Woodward 's bedroom wall and singing a similarly spooky mantra . |
| 18 | Situated among pine and pepper trees and commanding a vew , now partly obscured by the apartment blocks and tourist hotels of modern Palma , across rocky landscape to Calamayor beach and the Mediterranean sea , the Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miró is the latest cultural initiative of Spain . |
| 19 | It was a Sunday — a grey spring morning and raining a little . |
| 20 | Diego Maradona did most to restore Napoli to the top , creating headed goals ( 18 and 45 min ) for Andrea Carnevale and scoring a virtuoso third ( 84 ) . |
| 21 | The game was all ticket but I found little problems obtaining a ticket , going down Friday lunchtime and obtaining a spare ticket from a Southampton supporter . |
| 22 | It is no good you being a couch potato and having a Dobermann , only to wonder why it seems so frustrated with its existence . |
| 23 | There he is , old dog-face Cyrus on the cover , with his pony-tail and his stars 'n' stripes patch on his jeans — every inch the puko , ambitious newboy gunning for the hearts and wallets of Codger County and toting a cheesy , materialistic brand of self-belief . |
| 24 | This problem is usually solved by having a " hive-up " ( or transfer ) of the business from Target to Newco after the acquisition , Newco thus starting life as an investment company and becoming a trading company ; but a hive-up creates its own tax complications . |
| 25 | For the more ambitious , these brochures also include design ideas for carrying out a loft conversion and constructing a fitted kitchen , bathroom or bedroom — each contains full working instructions and lists of materials needed . |
| 26 | An Attic red-figure amphora attributed to the Berlin Painter ( dated around 490–480 BC , lot 11 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) shows Nike flying and playing a kithara with , on the other side , a standing draped youth holding a staff . |
| 27 | Martin found Marjorie in the boathouse , sitting on the punt cushions and smoking a cigarette . |
| 28 | It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ . |
| 29 | Caterers can reap very real rewards from this attitude by using microwave combination ovens as the central pivot of the kitchen equipment and basing a menu choice around a multi-task oven . |
| 30 | I was sitting upright in a pine coffin high on a marble pedestal and wearing a delicate silk gown of pure white . |