Example sentences of "[v-ing] and the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 2 | Prevent the ends twisting and the resulting torsion is relieved only by the strand twisting about itself . |
| 3 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 4 | A statement from the new pressure group says clubs throughout the Foyle area feel that even with the continuing decline both in Irish stocks and water quality , the Commission has allowed over-fishing by netting to continue and is not adequately funded to deter or prevent poaching and the continued degradation of water quality throughout the system . |
| 5 | From that initial claim on your attention , he would proceed rapidly to inform you of his achievement in preserving the Albert Dock complex in Liverpool — now the largest tourist attraction in the north of England — from wanton , council-approved destruction ; of his professional status as author of the standard textbook on Concise Practical Surveying and the Structural Masonry Designers ’ Manuals ; of his intellectual attainment in completing a doctoral thesis in ten months ; of his physical prowess as a pensionable leader of Very Severe rockclimbs and skier down the most precipitous slopes . |
| 6 | The trunk was studded with knot-holes spaced for climbing and the naked branches spun upwards as evenly as the treads of a spiral staircase . |
| 7 | There is now no voltage applied to the phase winding and the current decays around a path which includes Tl , R c and diode Dl . |
| 8 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 9 | What sensible young thirteen-and-a-half-year-old would wish to take on board all those terrible sins like gluttony , cheating and the first inklings of immoral thoughts ? |
| 10 | The whole operation however is more efficient with two persons with one applying and the other following and drying . |
| 11 | To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them . ’ |
| 12 | A punishing schedule that has left the engine spluttering and the chief mechanic unable to furnish suitable replacement parts . |
| 13 | For the year 1982–3 , the Stephen Jones working group also put together a long-term system for the allocation of the pool based on unit costing and the 1982–3 allocation of £539 million was the first one to be determined by it . |
| 14 | This poses problems for clients , arising out of the issue which Rueschemeyer identified , of the social control of expertise : the impersonality of bureaucratised hospital doctoring and the creeping paternalism of general practice are equally unacceptable . |
| 15 | Not just in England but throughout the world about taking the technology we 're developing and the branded services and deploying them on their systems . |
| 16 | Both were smoking and the pungent smell of Gauloise tobacco so early in the morning made me feel sick . |
| 17 | It could only be wrestling and the worst sort — American wrestling . |
| 18 | Educational practices can retard changes , or stigmatise them ( this is relevant to the question of generic he , which is often still insisted on by teachers ) ; publishing and the mass media can popularise a word , or conversely , fail to legitimate it ( quality newspapers , most famously the New York Times , for years refused to print the word Ms , even if the woman being written about preferred it ) . |
| 19 | Mr Bond has been threatened with receiverships , the loss of boardroom control at his key Bell Resources company , failure to secure sale of the breweries , share suspensions , disclosure that a former employee may have been involved in telephone bugging and the final indignity of a derisory A$53 million bid from rival Kerry Packer for his TV interests . |
| 20 | The yeast of romanticism was fermenting and the Italian genius was not particularly sympathetic to romanticism . |
| 21 | We felt that erm Trust Law had worked effectively erm you know over the years erm w we were happy with the extra powers that the er committee were recommending and the extra precautions that the committee were recommending that we brought in , but erm we would be happy with that backup to continue with the Trust Law . |
| 22 | They were suspicious of preaching and the personal interpretation of scripture by the laity , and placed great stress on the sacraments as sources of grace . |
| 23 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |
| 24 | CCG have become a recognised examination centre for the City and Guilds Joint Certificate for Catering and the Licensed Trade . |
| 25 | Many arguments are based on one side lumping and the other splitting . |
| 26 | The role of subcontracting and the increasing rate of investment by large companies in their subsidiaries has already been highlighted as one factor involved in the resilience of the small firm sector . |
| 27 | The research will be conducted in cooperation with the project ‘ Subcontracting and the small business ’ also ESRC financed , which relates to the UK and is being carried out by other economists in the University of East Anglia 's Economics Research Centre . |
| 28 | In contrast , the kayaks designed for the 1972 Olympics at Augsburg were also quite usable as white water touring boats , surfing and the quiet afternoon paddle with the family . |
| 29 | She translates the implicit meaning of tight skirts and high heels as the exact equivalent of Chinese foot binding and the Nigerian custom of loading women 's legs with pounds of brass wire . |
| 30 | Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 . |