Example sentences of "and showing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wearing a baggy green cap and showing not the slightest tension , Latif went for his strokes as if it were a charity match . |
| 2 | Was it that the child was too refined and showing up her own shortcomings ? |
| 3 | With the morning light slanting in here , and showing up every mote of dust and grain of wood-powder , the individual nodules of that fingertip showed even to the naked eye . |
| 4 | The NCVQ is not an examining body in its own right but was established , in 1986 , to monitor existing awarding bodies and their qualifications in England , Wales and Northern Ireland — approving those that meet certain standards , which it will set , and showing where they stand in relation to one another . |
| 5 | Entitled The Special Edition , it restored around 17 minutes of original unscreened footage , filling in more background to Ripley 's material angst and showing exactly what happened to Newt 's parents and the other settlers on the Alien 's planet . |
| 6 | STRANGELY , THE climax of the Dollars trilogy is a prequel to the others , set during the Civil War and showing how Clint Eastwood 's Man With No Name gradually picks up the props — the poncho , the sheepskin jacket , the cigar — that mark his identity in the other films . |
| 7 | Thus Realism was able to make a quick conquest by importing a neat and powerful idea of science and showing how an economics-style analysis of nation states as pursuers of national interest scored high as science . |
| 8 | Marketing is part of the media too , and much money and time is spent researching and showing how the media 's consumers — the readers and viewers — match up to the advertisers ' desired audience of consumers for his product . |
| 9 | challenging the claimed benefits of growth and showing how growth causes environmental impacts that degrade the quality of life for the indigenous population and are unsustainable for future generations ; |
| 10 | Defining and explaining them and showing how they may be measured are the major objectives of this and the following chapter . |
| 11 | There 's this youth , an actor would n't you know ? , marching about Chelsea with his soldiers and showing off no end . ’ |
| 12 | There is no evidence that Wolfgang resented the many and arduous journeys he was obliged to undertake in the pursuit of fame and success : on the contrary , he seems to have enjoyed seeing new places , meeting new people , and showing off his manifold abilities , despite the inevitable detrimental effect of all this on his health . |
| 13 | Sometimes he was in a City of London pinstripe and showing off his new dentures . |
| 14 | The highlights of this short story are these : born on good Friday 1935 , numerous operations as a child on a club left foot , po-faced and basically afraid of the world until he was thirteen , bullied at school , fighting it by becoming the class clown , playing the piano and showing off , off to Oxford , Beyond the Fringe , doubling up with Peter Cook , growing up to be five feet two ‘ and a half — every half inch counts ’ , losing his virginity at 23 , Sixties success as Pete'n'Dud , a series of relationships with faces such as Celia Hammond , Tuesday Weld , Suzy Kendall , Susan Anton , love affair break ups and make ups , psychotherapy to sort out the hangover of a painful , frightening childhood , doubting Dudley , depressed Dudley , filthy Derek and Clive albums , worried about being 30 , happy about being 40 , frightened of being 50 , worrying Dudley , Dudley and jazz , Dudley in Hollywood making it big with 10 and Arthur , restless Dudley , manic Dudley , Dudley and son Patrick , million-dollar-a-film-Dudley , chasing chickens for Tesco , still small , still smiling , still pinching himself to believe it 's all real . |
| 15 | The display is entitled ‘ Child 's Play ’ and showing off some of the exhibits are ( from left ) : Patricia Flanagan , acting chief executive , Craftworks ; Valerie Wherry , LEDU ; Katie O'Toole , of Katie Blue , Ormeau Avenue , and Freda Robinson , of Arabesque Braids , Knock . |
| 16 | And showing off their work at Southport 's prom were Head Dog Warden , Helen Wignall and her team , Susan McDonald , Shelley Fryer , Lesley Carrington and Amanda Townley . |
| 17 | She was already taking the files out of the car , though , gracefully leaning over and showing long , well-shaped legs . |