Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aid for research into deforestation and forest replacement is promised and tree planting will be encouraged as an effective way of absorbing and locking up carbon dioxide . |
| 2 | When allowance is made for the hours needed for sleep and eating and keeping fit and carrying out Union and Society activities , you would be pardoned for thinking that there are not many left to be used for organising a study programme . |
| 3 | I mean it is it is genuinely part of the definition but the definition they had originally has got stretched and stretched so now it it does n't there 's no obvious tie up with oxidation , meaning burning and taking up oxygen , and reduction is the of opposite , so if you get the oxygen out or you put hydrogen in or where it gains electrons . |
| 4 | Like being terribly thirsty and gulping down glass after glass of water . |
| 5 | nought point ten and going up point two of a second , that is fast ! |
| 6 | They had argued like this until the plane touched down in Belgium : Tweed uncharacteristically negative ; Paula positive and working out escape routes . |