Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dust-wreathed propellers turn overhead , twisting and turning the grime of centuries into the crannies of the moulded ceiling . |
| 2 | The actual technique is to jet a small area and as spray or steam obscures the action to stop jetting and assess the effect before continuing . |
| 3 | Just keep on walking and ringing the bell . |
| 4 | I was out walking and forgot the time . ’ |
| 5 | Ideal centre for walking and visiting the coast . |
| 6 | This was an especial worry in Ireland , where the peasantry left the mounds alone as the tombs of former kings and queens ; if enthusiastic archaeologists took control , in no time they would be sacrilegiously interfering and flourishing the thighbone of some ancient Irish king . |
| 7 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 8 | Your first efforts at hearing , transcribing and producing the sounds of a new language are bound to be subjective an biased according to the languages you have previously had experience with . |
| 9 | If the supplier goes beyond the mere supply of the equipment and carries out some work such as assembling and installing the equipment , the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 will apply , as discussed above . |
| 10 | Is the evidence so complex or specialized that the average lay person could reasonably wish for expert help in assembling and evaluating the evidence and in testing or interpreting it ? |
| 11 | Backstage staff assembling and building the set are looking for a 1930s-style upright wheelchair , and a male ventriloquist 's dummy . |
| 12 | Assembling and Carrying the Equipment |
| 13 | DEC , which held the Dutch introduction to its new Alpha machines here , and Hewlett-Packard , had both spent a lot of money on assembling and staffing the stands , and were less than happy with the trickle of visitors descending from the various sessions down onto the show floor . |
| 14 | With an estimated total cost of over £300 million , these could include purifying and decontaminating the soil and re-equipping the plant with modern , low-polluting technology . |
| 15 | It looked afresh at the elements in the established balance between the CNAA and its institutions , retaining standards at the centre of debate , defining a continuing role for the CNAA , justifying and describing the process towards greater institutional autonomy , conceding the need to take account of different stages of development , and looking towards possible implications for the whole of higher education . |
| 16 | This will help as the experienced school librarian will already have gone through the process of justifying and acquiring a microcomputer and can anticipate the types of questions which might be asked by senior staff in the school . |
| 17 | Now , it is by becoming and remaining the counterparty to contracts that LCH ensures performance by its own commercial strength and integrity , under the supervision of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , the regulatory agency under the 1986 Act . |
| 18 | All the key people that Reagan has appointed to protect the US environment have had close financial involvement with companies that are polluting and destroying the environment . |
| 19 | Instead they are destined to become ‘ enabling authorities ’ , purchasing and managing the services provided by other statutory , voluntary and private sector agencies and supporting informal carers in their role as the primary care-givers : |
| 20 | This was never articulated directly , a variety of subtler means were employed ; humour , to engage an audience and convey an important message without alienation ; sensuality , in a particular response to materials and experimentation , a need to manipulate materials and accepted methods of doing things in order to extend traditional boundaries , blurring and redefining the nature of art , craft and commercial design . |
| 21 | Unfortunately despite the wide range , the stock did not include paste so they were up until the early hours , matching and fastening the wallpaper on with drawing pins . |
| 22 | It is via these windows that the system informs the Offline Operator what is happening and requests a media item to be physically mounted or dismounted on the appropriate media unit ; in this case mounting refers only to the action of placing a media item onto a media unit . |
| 23 | This is society 's attempt to recognize what is happening and to institute a mourning process . |
| 24 | But even if Lenin was correct in his analysis of the capitalist-imperialist roots of the First World War , by the 1950s and 1960s the capitalist global system and the Third World had both changed so much that many Marxists felt the need to generate new theories to explain what was happening and to show the way forward from a political point of view . |
| 25 | And all the while we monitor to keep tabs on what is happening and to get the feedback we need to make in-flight adjustments . |
| 26 | Energetic and many-sided , Hunt edited or sub-edited several popular magazines and journals , including the Quiver ( 1865–1905 ) and Cassell 's Magazine ( 1874–96 ) , besides founding and editing a children 's paper , Little Folks , until 1876 . |
| 27 | An area of cleared moor was cordoned off with a wind-powered electric fence to allow heather regrowth , a method which could be repeated elsewhere ; next year 's plans for the estate , five miles north of Pateley Bridge , include protecting and encouraging the spread of bilberry , the indigenous upland plant which disappeared from large tracts of moor when bracken moved in . |
| 28 | Led by the Head of Preservation the Preservation Division is primarily responsible for protecting and prolonging the life of the collections . |
| 29 | Caring for babies or smaller children can be physically taxing and occasionally irritating but it is not as emotionally demanding a job as protecting and nurturing an adolescent . |
| 30 | The Corporation of London was appointed Conservators of the Forest , with the duty of protecting and managing the forest as an open space for the recreation and enjoyment of the public : a duty it discharged through an Epping Forest Committee . |