Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I mean we 've helped you with this and helping with that anyway . |
| 2 | All language teachers should be encouraged to teach about the nature of language and should be explicitly trained in methods of doing this and co-operating with other teachers in so doing . |
| 3 | All language teachers should be encouraged to teach about the nature of language , and should be explicitly trained in methods of doing this and co-operating with other teachers in so doing . |
| 4 | The sky was clear and glittering with icy stars . |
| 5 | Any non-governmental movement might be suspect in such circumstances , untried and lacking in those essential relationships and assets by which inter-state bargains can be struck . |
| 6 | When you get light and trembling with that special kind of stage fright , you ca n't trust your fingers to do what they 're told . |
| 7 | What had seemed so fresh and enticing at first was now stale , predictable . |
| 8 | Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger . |
| 9 | Notice too the melodic contour — two sections beginning high and falling to low points . |
| 10 | Among the highlights of the two sales , and selling well above its £10,000–15,000 estimate at Christie 's was a Sevres soup plate from the Catherine II service , ordered in 1776 and consisting of 797 pieces of which seventy-two were soup-plates . |
| 11 | The Korean right was weak , despondent and lacking in effective leadership . |
| 12 | Notice of Election is due to be published on 12 August 1993 with the nomination period commencing on Wednesday , 13 August 1993 and closing at 4.00 pm on Tuesday , 24 August 1993 . |
| 13 | The issue we will examine is why delinquency is so attractive to some and unappealing to other youth . |
| 14 | Where he did intervene in public , it was generally to lend support to ‘ legal ’ discriminatory measures — for the most part popular and meeting with widespread approval — excluding Jews from German society and the economy . |
| 15 | Fernando , we are being very sensible and talking about this as we should have done last year . ’ |
| 16 | I urge the Secretary of State to say why , when business person after business person tells him , ’ Of course , we must have a single European currency , ’ he continues to insist on the opt-out that is so unrealistic and damaging to British industry ? |
| 17 | But Comdisco made a bundle leasing 3090-Es , upgrading its base of original 3090s and navigating past most of the rocks and shoals of the mainframe disk business , which was adjusting to IBM 's impressive 3380-K drives . |
| 18 | She was emotionally raw and bleeding after all . |
| 19 | De Morgen 's correspondent interpreted Vercruysse 's decision as ‘ a reaction against Hoet 's preparations for Documenta , which Vercruysse has labelled showy and pandering to public taste ’ . |
| 20 | Left empty and decaying for some years , the buildings were at last put up for sale . |
| 21 | Goodwill arising on consolidation before 1st April 1985 and arising after 1st April 1990 is amortised through the profit and loss account over the directors ' estimate of its useful economic life . |
| 22 | The A flat was the only Polonaise Cortot recorded ( though Music and Arts have a Polonaise-Fantasie previously unissued and dating from 1947 and there is a 1923 recording of Op. 22 , mutilated rather than cut and minus its preceding Andante spianato — CD MACD615 ) which is regrettable considering the fire he brings to Poland 's most ebullient and regal dance . |
| 23 | MacMillan 's The Burrow , based on the real diary of Anne Frank , was possibly the most explicit and moving of all his efforts to depict reality in terms of dance ( see page 30 ) . |
| 24 | Be warm and loving towards other people . |
| 25 | Multiplying by 12.5 is the same as multiplying by 100 and dividing by 8 . |
| 26 | And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times . |
| 27 | In other words , the fact that we can be open , honest and sharing with each other intellectually , emotionally and spiritually means that we have a sound basis for open , vulnerable sharing physically . |
| 28 | Now Maura 's hair was hanging in long waves , unaccustomed to being out of plaits , her eyes sad and shining with unshed tears . |
| 29 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 30 | The lower slopes glowed with sunshine on old bracken , the upper slopes glittered with sunshine on new snow and , in between , there was and is a great deal of heather , which makes the group appear dark and glowering from many viewpoints . |