Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US decision to withdraw troops stationed abroad marked a significant shift in national defence policy , whereby the strong local presence of US troops in many regions was to be replaced by a " rapid reaction " concept involving the increased use of airborne forces and attaching particular importance to mobile operations including the role of aircraft carriers . |
| 2 | The Tibetan intuitively spun on his heel , raising his arm as if to throw a stone and bellowing great roars of abuse . |
| 3 | When she got back to the kitchen , Finn was reading an old newspaper , seated on the table and eating dry chunks of bread gouged from a loaf in the crumb of which his fingers had left grey prints . |
| 4 | Apart from taking the Japanese surrender and recovering Allied prisoners of war , General Gracey 's third task was to maintain law and order ; and in this he was to recognize the sole authority of the French . |
| 5 | We continue to explore alternative ways of managing our operations more effectively and generating better returns on the residential landholdings which we control . |
| 6 | We saw it as a tremendous opportunity to secure the future of our Elderslie factory by introducing more volume and generating more profit for our group — particularly at a time when I know everyone is aware that business is very tight in all our trading divisions . |
| 7 | Even if he or she does not answer to this title directly , there is usually one member of staff who has responsibility for supporting and assisting qualified staff with their continued professional education . |
| 8 | Yet his real concern is that Labour has failed to grasp how the financial and managerial freedom of GM status , bypassing the LEA and channelling extra funds to schools , has improved opportunities for ordinary pupils . |
| 9 | The £50,000 awarded to voluntary organisations is specifically for the purpose of preventing homelessness and dissuading young people from coming to London when they have neither housing nor jobs . |
| 10 | It was very undemanding , revolving round the borrowing of clothes , and helping each other with routines . |
| 11 | His squadron was too small to emulate Blake 's attack on Porto Farina , but he was able to negotiate a satisfactory peace with the Dey of Tunis in February 1658 , winning the right for English warships and merchantmen to use the facilities of Porto Farina , and ransoming English captives at a favourable rate . |
| 12 | Taking the current level of borrowings and forecasting future receipts of cash in and payments of cash out by salaries , bought ledger payments , tax payments and so on . |
| 13 | Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him . |
| 14 | Simon Long adds from Beijing : China seems to be retreating into a diplomatic posture reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution , at odds with both Washington and Moscow , and firing frequent broadsides against all-comers for alleged interference in its internal affairs . |
| 15 | Simon Long adds from Beijing : China seems to be retreating into a diplomatic posture reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution , at odds with both Washington and Moscow , and firing frequent broadsides against all-comers for alleged interference in its internal affairs . |
| 16 | Part of the fun for them came from commenting on the other dancers and inventing private nicknames for them , such as Big Feet , Sir Galahad , Merrylegs , Dreamboat , and many others . |
| 17 | Still unconvinced , he considered ringing the bell and inventing some pretext for coming to see Connon if Mary Connon answered the door . |
| 18 | There should be evidence of summarising and drawing appropriate conclusions from the evidence obtained during the investigation . |
| 19 | To celebrate The Artist 's ‘ Art in Nature ’ exhibition we have organised four , one-day workshops for our readers on painting and drawing various aspects of nature . |
| 20 | Where the assignment involves an investigation , the assessment is likely to be based on students carrying out a series of instructions correctly and drawing valid conclusions from the results . |
| 21 | ‘ Capitalism , the money-lenders and the greedy elite have been allowed to subvert the democratic process , ’ he railed at a crowd on Wall Street , asking for a cleansing of the temple and drawing swift accusations of anti-semitism . |
| 22 | Back to , back to functions and drawing pretty pictures of them . |
| 23 | In presenting the rationalisations and justifications a group offers for doing things as it does , we will seem to be accepting its rationalisations and justifications and accusing other parties to the transaction in the words of their opponents . |
| 24 | WE ARE AN INTERNATIONAL MULTICULTURAL TEAM WORKING FOR PEACE AND OPPOSING ANY FORM OF AGGRESSION , PAST , PRESENT , OR FUTURE BY ANY PARTY IN THE GULF . |
| 25 | The appellants , who each made repeated sales at the shop , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging burglary and handling stolen goods as alternatives . |
| 26 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 27 | ‘ The Chairman of the FAC Working Group , when recommending preserving the status quo , pointed out that CAA charges for Public Transport operations is by a ticket tax , each passenger contributing in equal manner to safety regulation and absolving individual operators from paying directly for any work which the Authority chooses to carry out . |
| 28 | When there are a number of individuals or groups from different disciplines and pursuing different objectives within some overall specification it is obviously crucial that all their activities should be in line with the common goal . |
| 29 | It must be clear that the spatial location identified by here in each of these expressions could be interpreted as a series of concentric rings spreading out from the speaker and encompassing different amounts of physical space , but the interpretation of the spatial range of the expression here on any particular occasion of use will have to be sought in the context of what the speaker is talking about . |
| 30 | As the 1970s progressed , Moscow succeeded in establishing and maintaining diplomatic links with the majority of Latin American and Caribbean states . |