Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This crisis takes two forms : the size of the prison population ’ ( combined with the lack of prison places and the running expenses of locking up and catering for such a large number of prisoners ) ‘ and the demands on the probation and after-care service ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 5 ) . |
| 2 | He avoided this problem by inventing and patenting in 1867 an entirely different type of multipolar machine , which was used for electro-deposition and arc lighting . |
| 3 | Sort of standing and quivering with such a terrified look on her face . |
| 4 | The housekeeper was in charge of mending and looking after all the linen from the various parts of the house . |
| 5 | Released from the constraints of both shareholders and any market , managers are free to become public servants , ‘ a purely neutral technocracy , balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 6 | These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into a ‘ purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 7 | And the third was a little glass key , wrought into fantastic fragile shape , and glittering with all the colours of the rainbow . |
| 8 | Combing the collegiate and university records of Oxford , and going through all the medieval episcopal registers , as well as a vast range of other English sources , he compiled three substantial volumes of A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500 ( 1957–9 ) . |
| 9 | Other responsibilities for defence and security would include : ( i ) declaring general or partial mobilization , a state of war " in the event of a military attack on the USSR " ( subject to immediate referral to the USSR Supreme Soviet ) , or martial law in specific localities " in the interest of the defence of the USSR and the security of its citizens " ; ( ii ) giving warning of the declaration of a state of emergency in particular localities " in the interests of safeguarding citizens ' security " , and proceeding with such a declaration " at the request or with the consent of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet or supreme body of state power of the affected union republic " . |
| 10 | However , for ease of administration the production number is no longer used , and commencing with 358 the constructor 's number can also be found on the tailplane , i.e. SU-AZJ is inscribed " Fan Jet Falcon No 358 " . |
| 11 | Bukharin understood better than most that Stalin 's mania — as it was shown to be — for breakneck industrialisation was to bring many years of misery and suffering to all the Soviet peoples . |
| 12 | It narrowly escaped being called upon to name them ( see later , p155 ) but its conduct in promising a plea of justification and persisting in such a plea until the last moment was punished by damages of £50,000 . |
| 13 | I once knitted almost half of the front of a sweater in tuck stitch , continually dropping stitches and muttering at all the time I was spending picking them up . |
| 14 | Out of the confines of Easegill Kirk , the beck can be followed upstream without difficulty , passing more cave entrances on the south bank and arriving in half a mile at the waterfall of Cow Dub . |
| 15 | And embarking on such a long trip . |
| 16 | As an aspect of this approach , and recognising in particular the problems involved for victims of disasters or defective medicines , the Legal Aid Board , encouraged by the government , is examining how to fund multi-party actions through the legal aid scheme by directing legal aid cases to a single firm or small group of firms of solicitors . |
| 17 | It can also involve destruction of furniture , hitting people , hurting themselves , and screaming for half an hour or more . |
| 18 | ‘ Champagne , hot scented baths , Sibelius , tiny kittens , very , very , very expensive underwear that you hardly know you 're wearing , and skiing at night and going into the big stores on fifth Avenue and trying on all the three-hundred-dollar dresses and shoes and then saying that I do n't like any of them — I do that quite often — and … ’ |
| 19 | This style of ship lasted until the 1960 's many being built in Burntisland and loading in all the Forth Ports from time to time . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the very best must be made of the existing stem by providing new secondary modern schools and adding grammar-school streams to those which already exist , by encouraging late transfers , by improving standards in the State sector , and raising to sixteen the school-leaving age . |
| 21 | Lord Home belied his reputation for laziness — the commonly-held view of the elder statesman , as the British prototype for Ronald Reagan , did n't hold water : up and working at 6.30 every morning , even if he did spend uncommon amounts of time in trout streams . |
| 22 | This is done by taking the distribution of scores for children in the standardisation sample of a given age , and imposing on this a numerical scale which has clearly defined characteristics . |