Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain contracts are excepted and are therefore not cancellable under the Regulations ( even if made during or following an unsolicited visit or an excursion ) , namely any contract : |
| 2 | And if we lived in the country then it would n't be me coming home every night whacked out and wanting to be looked after and having a squawking infant instead . |
| 3 | Turning towards him , her face flushed , her fingers reached down , searching for and caressing the hard nakedness there . |
| 4 | So we should probably begin by asking what college is for and reviewing the various arguments that surround it . |
| 5 | The very exhaustive treatise Contemporary Percussion by Reginald Smith Brindle ( O.U.P. ) goes in great detail into the technique of writing for and playing a vast number of percussion instruments and contains quotations from many modern works , as well as a 45 rpm recording of the sounds of many of the tuned and untuned instruments which have been used by modern composers . |
| 6 | For several years , in the late 1960s and the early 1970s , sociologists seemed to spend as much time and effort arguing about how they should be thinking about and studying the social world as they did in actually doing research . |
| 7 | Generic technologies are characterised by a breadth of long term potential applications and impacts which require that they be recognised as fundamental elements in thinking about and planning the long term socioeconomic future . |
| 8 | So she kept her doubts to herself , merely remarking that everyone knew what Frenchmen were like and turning the whole thing into a rather laboured joke in which Iris eventually joined . |
| 9 | James did prove determined to promote the interests of Catholics , and he did so largely through recourse to the prerogative powers of dispensing with or suspending the penal statutes . |
| 10 | Walkerdine , recording interviews with and observing a working-class 6-year-old girl and her family in their home , uses fantasy to explore how she identifies with the family from her working-class childhood , and is at the same time distanced from it by her middle-class academic adulthood : |
| 11 | In other words , the choreographer should set out to create a particular style for the whole dance design , yet within it be free to vary the way of performing a step without breaking away from or distorting the overall rhythmic quality and phrasing of his enchaînements . |
| 12 | This approach emphasises the ‘ state form ’ .9 Like most Marxist analyses , this approach still envisages the state as ‘ capitalist ’ : an apparatus caught up in and managing the social relations of capitalism . |
| 13 | It is drawing upon and developing the recent work of Harvard economists in the USA and will use data from some of the case studies which figure in the other projects , as well as econometric analysis at the industry level . |
| 14 | Intellectualisation : The family members usually have clearer heads than the primary sufferers and use them for even more determined discussion of " facts " rather than facing up to and discussing the emotional pain of their own position . |
| 15 | Focus is on listening to and understanding a wide range of accents . |
| 16 | This Circular withdrew Circular 10/70 , and reaffirmed the ( Labour ) government 's objectives of ending selection at 11 plus and creating a unified system of secondary education . |
| 17 | Top management is represented by the centre circle and has the responsibility of arriving at and promulgating the corporate plan defining the company objectives . |
| 18 | Derby and Scotland agreed on the specification for an IMS administrative system PIROS ( after looking at and rejecting the available packages ) . |
| 19 | Written by , directed by and starring the young black American film-maker Charles Lane , Sidewalk Stories is not only almost completely without dialogue , it 's also shot in crisp black and white rather than the now-regulation colour . |