Example sentences of "and [be] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after 1 p.m. , as sporadic gunfire continued to be heard in the capital , Gen. Sani Abacha , the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Army Staff , declared that the Chiefs of Staff had pledged their loyalty to the President , and that " most of the disloyal elements have been arrested and are already undergoing interrogation " . |
| 2 | Feminist psychologists are more aware of the ambiguities in psychological discourses than conventional psychologists are , and are increasingly championing heterogeneity , speculation , and uncertainty ( e.g. Henley 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Those most likely to object to this solution are those who have chronic illnesses and are currently receiving care within the NHS . |
| 4 | They have done well for us , and are currently funding building work for students with disabilities . ’ |
| 5 | We , on this side , are concerned about the plight of unemployed and are currently running training schemes to help them back into labour market . |
| 6 | We subsequently undertook an additional study of the records of 450 call outs of London police surgeons and are now conducting research for the first comprehensive national study of police surgeons . |
| 7 | Car makers have worked hard to make engines and exhausts more refined and are now encapsulating diesel engines to muffle the sound . |
| 8 | Even so , some residents had started to venture out to local pubs and shops and were slowly becoming part of the community . |
| 9 | By the time we had drunk our third bottle of wine Ellen and I had long reached New Zealand and were already sailing north towards New Caledonia . |
| 10 | The court heard the girl has made several suicide attempts and is still receiving treatment . |
| 11 | My father Arthur was secretary of the Southern Division for a number of years and is still enjoying life to the full . |
| 12 | He lives with his wife and two children in Amersham and is currently taking golf lessons with one of his sons at a local club . |
| 13 | Even if the mahogany comes from other countries , such as the Philippines , they claim the trade causes serious environmental damage and is often taking place illegally . |
| 14 | ‘ A period commencing after the effective date of insurance and in respect of which the Customer is registered in the United Kingdom with the Department of Employment ( DHSS in Northern Ireland ) as unemployed and is actively seeking Employment ’ . |
| 15 | Stella however , survived to tell the tale and is now taking swimming lessons in |
| 16 | The SNM withdrew and is now laying siege to Hargeisa and four other garrisons in the region . |
| 17 | The Federation , which represents more than 50,000 members nationwide has emerged as a strong national voice in Parliament and is constantly badgering Government ministers for a better business deal . |
| 18 | Outside critics , of which the most devastating was the Oxford economist Ian Little , had no difficulty in showing that their arguments ‘ fail to wriggle out of the obvious ’ , which was that much of the domestic thermal load was being sold below cost and was thereby winning heating markets which could be more efficiently supplied by alternative fuels at lower overall national cost . |
| 19 | But by the ninth century this had degenerated into gross confusion , under cover of which the worship of Baal-Melqart , the official god of Tyre , had crept in and was widely corrupting faith in God . |
| 20 | Profiled recently in this magazine , Madame Yevonde was a highly influential but sadly unsung pioneer of colour photography who began experimenting with the new Vivex colour print process in the early thirties and was soon producing work of startling and refreshing originality . |
| 21 | Although he took Parliament 's side at the beginning of the civil war he attempted to arrange a neutrality pact with the Norfolk Royalists , and was soon advocating peace . |
| 22 | With her experience in social service in Britain fresh in her mind the new Territorial Commander took a particular interest in that sphere and was soon rallying support from the far corners of the earth . |
| 23 | The greatest authority in electrical science was A. M. Ampère , who had devised equations to account for the discoveries of Oersted and others , and was thus bringing electromagnetism within the realm of applied mathematics . |
| 24 | Stefan looked particularly grey and was frantically scrunching indigestion tablets . |
| 25 | His employer warned him that his behaviour had already caused several customer complaints and was even affecting business relations , and demanded that he stop . |
| 26 | He said a second person , who had been reported dead , had in fact been brought into the hospital alive and was currently undergoing treatment . |
| 27 | Perhaps the woman had already met Jesus previously , had changed her immoral life , in so doing had realised that her sins had been forgiven and was now showing gratitude for this . |
| 28 | He had been travelling for eight years and was now heading south towards Delhi , the capital of the Sultan of Hindustan . |
| 29 | She scarcely touched it , for it was downhill , but the ball chased past the hole and was still gathering pace as it disappeared off the other side of the green . |
| 30 | She had regular treatment sessions for the next two years , and was still making progress . |