Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The second chapter of Politics among Nations is devoted to explaining and justifying this claim . |
| 32 | The positive heuristic indicates how the hard core is to be supplemented in order for it to be capable of explaining and predicting real phenomena . |
| 33 | There should be evidence of summarising and drawing appropriate conclusions from the evidence obtained during the investigation . |
| 34 | When you think about if you just serving two or three hundred to keep opening and shutting bloody cupboard doors , erm , fridge doors , it 's no good . |
| 35 | Or she might know about rusting and have other reasons for believing that these particular pieces of metal would not rust . |
| 36 | Ball & Stick is a Mac program for representing and displaying molecular structures . |
| 37 | He argues that the body is an ideal vehicle for representing and symbolizing coherent models of experience and , at times , presents an intense framework for cultural expression . |
| 38 | The Government is also committed to new road safety measures , including raising penalties for drink driving and installing more cameras at dangerous road junctions to film those passing through red lights . |
| 39 | In all this , music has a significant role to play in enabling and fostering closer relationships between the denominations . |
| 40 | I left Henry Compton after my fifth year and went to Wandsworth Technical College to study electronics ( which was the ‘ in ’ thing in those days ) , as I was interested in amplifying and building electrical equipment . |
| 41 | Sir Roy Strong provides the introduction : ‘ If you have domestic help , it is not only unwise but unfair to expect them to cope with dusting and cleaning vulnerable objects ’ . |
| 42 | Germany 's BMW and France 's Renault have signed an agreement to work together on disassembling and recycling used cars . |
| 43 | Gaultier and Montana lead the way by day , inventively re-cutting and styling traditional sportswear shapes . |
| 44 | These are required for obtaining , checking and retrieving specific facts and pieces of information , particularly but not entirely from secondary sources … |
| 45 | This was so serious a threat to their efficiency , especially in wartime , that officers and NCOs had to spend much of their energies in checking and forestalling possible efforts by their men to desert . |
| 46 | In 1931 Dalton Trumbo fiercely denounced the growing trend by first declaring after a whole spate of films such as The Miracle Woman that he was ‘ beginning to weary of the Salvation Army ’ and then by condemning the practice of sermonizing and adding moral prefaces as ‘ bad art , bad taste , bad logic and bad box-office ’ . |
| 47 | Sewell was a dedicated surgical operator , although he was sometimes greatly inconvenienced by the disorderly conduct of students crowding and jostling each other for even a glimpse of what was going on . |
| 48 | They are laughing and chasing each other . |
| 49 | Three or four tables are surrounded by large happy families chatting , laughing and toasting each other 's health . |
| 50 | All around the smoking room , gentlemen seemed to be standing in clusters laughing and clapping each other on the shoulder . |
| 51 | This means that SCOTVEC now has a unique role , both accrediting and awarding vocational qualifications . |
| 52 | The peoples of the ancient Near East were skilled in spinning , weaving and using natural dyes ( scarlet from the cochineal insect ; purple , for the wealthy , from the murex shellfish ) . |
| 53 | There were regular news reports of Hooligan gangs smashing up coffee-stalls and public houses , robbing and assaulting old ladies , attacking foreigners and setting upon policeman in the streets . |
| 54 | The Hooligans were also said to hunt in cowardly packs , however , and news reports regularly featured them smashing up coffee-stalls and public houses , assaulting staff in pubs and cheap eating-houses , robbing and assaulting old ladies , attacking foreigners such as Italian ice-cream vendors or ‘ Froggy ’ cafe owners , and setting upon policemen in the streets with savage howls of ‘ Boot ‘ em ! ’ |
| 55 | At the end The Bangles — Hoffs , Michael Steele and sisters Debbi and Vicki Peterson — were at each other 's throats , fighting , swearing and sending each other sheep 's heads in the mail . |
| 56 | Surgery involves opening the sinus from the outside , flushing and allowing free drainage into the nasal passage . |
| 57 | A great day out for all the family , the Centre for Alternative Technology is a living and working community which has been promoting and displaying sustainable technologies for more than 16 years . |
| 58 | Although concentrating mainly on Britain , the study will also make reference to LFS data for France and Germany — countries where public policies promoting and facilitating early withdrawal are more developed . |
| 59 | This year is important , and we intend to be in the forefront of promoting and supporting this EEC initiative . |
| 60 | has done its utmost actively to encourage the blossoming of black golfers , although apartheid , as it is known , is an official policy of racial segregation practised in the Republic of South Africa with a view to promoting and maintaining white ascendancy . |