Example sentences of "and [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 The early prevalence of such opinions probably illuminates the intensity with which St John 's Gospel ( chapters 3 , 6 , and 15 ) stresses the necessity of being reborn ‘ of water and the Spirit ’ and of participating in the bread of heaven and the true vine .
32 Christianity was a matter of churchgoing , of soldiering on and trying to do one 's best , and of believing in the existence of God and the historical life and death of Jesus ( even if his deity and his resurrection were not to be taken too seriously ) .
33 The parties are later sent by post either a summary decision or a full written decision as soon as it has been typed up and signed by the chairman , which is accompanied by information about applying for a review of the decision and of appealing to the Employment Appeal Tribunal .
34 Reality itself then became a construct of knowing and being known , and of living with the alternative possibility .
35 The encouragement to Bible study in Dei Verbum ( 23–5 ) speaks in turn of scholarly work , of the training and spiritual formation of the clergy , and of reading by the laity .
36 Their function is simply that of dealing with the business aspects of terrace life and of negotiating with the outside world .
37 Turning the attack back on Doyle was a way of defending her — and of putting off the moment when he had to answer the question himself .
38 The stimulus of individual and group recovery and of working in the professional field of addictive disease and recovery is that each new discovery brings not only its own understanding and rewards but also the promise of more .
39 Zuckerman Unbound ( 1981 ) reaches its climax at one of Roth 's frequent funerals — in this case , that of Zuckerman 's father — after which Henry charges Nathan with killing their parent by writing ‘ that book ’ , the liberated Carnovsky , and with believing like the bastard he is that fiction does n't have consequences .
40 It is the biggest investigation in the history of the complaints authority , and into policing since the Operation Countryman inquiry into the Metropolitan Police in the 1970s .
41 The growth has come from privatisation of services provided in the public sectors , particularly healthcare and education and from catering for the public .
42 We have suggested that your notes are too valuable to be carried about , but that with one Lecfile you can take down all that is required from various lecture courses and from reading in the library .
43 With all the income from oil and from selling off the family silver , is not it a disgrace that manufacturing investment is now lower than in 1979 ?
44 One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance .
45 ( 5 ) High amplitude propagated contractions are associated with specific physiological or behavioural events , being more frequent during the day ( 80% of occurrences ) , after meals ( 50% of occurrences ) , and upon awakening in the morning ( 33% of occurrences ) .
46 For example , a car was stopped for speeding or ‘ flying low ’ , and upon returning to the police vehicle the constable related the following considerations which influenced his assessment :
47 This increased the dislike felt by the Prince for the Empress , a dislike which envenomed personal and also political relationships , for Prince Napoleon seemed henceforth to take a delight in publicly opposing the Emperor 's policies and in quarrelling with the Empress .
48 I was not alone in the way I identified with the saga of the March family , nor was I alone in identifying with Jo ( and presumably all readers do ) in her hurts and disappointments , her longings for femininity that clashed with her dreams of independence and achievement ; and in wishing for the ultimate fairness of all things as they were shaped by those nineteenth century moral certainties .
49 and erm in erm , speaking about it however and in mentioning about the scriptures which referring about them
50 And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women .
51 He advanced money , in ever-growing sums , especially during the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars ; and showed great skill in securing repayment , in discounting operations , and in profiting from the high rates of interest which the government had to pay for ready cash .
52 This was achieved by a religious ritual which may have stemmed from one in which the original parricides mutilated themselves ( and especially the organ which was responsible for their incestuous desires ) out of remorse and guilt at what they had done and in mourning for the primal father .
53 The difficulty lay both in defining the ‘ upper ’ and ‘ lower ’ limits of the stratum within the hierarchy of social status , and in allowing for the marked heterogeneity of its membership within those limits : there was always , at least , an accepted internal stratification into grande moyenne and petite bourgeoisie , the latter shading off into strata which would be de facto outside the class .
54 In the summer of 1979 , well before the Iran hostage crisis , Carter 's approval rating , as measured by an ABC-Harris poll , had slumped to 25 per cent and in commenting on the crisis of national leadership Lance Morrow wrote : This is to state in moderately colourful terms some of the points raised in previous pages and also addressed by Jimmy Carter himself in his memoirs : It is difficult to quarrel with the main thrust of Carter 's observations , although indiscipline within the Democratic party was hardly a new development .
55 To a considerable extent these views supported those of the Bar Council in seeking to retain the monopoly of barristers in the superior courts , in rejecting multi-disciplinary partnerships , and in objecting to the Lord Chancellor having power to make final decisions on the training , conduct and rights of audience of advocates .
56 And in escaping from the world to remote places and using lay brothers to find a vocation in tilling the soil , the Order was soon transformed into a wealthy economic organization .
57 It is hoped that it will inform school and teacher policy and practice , especially in assisting in the adaptation to the National Curriculum , and in advising on the extent such teaching promotes equal opportunities .
58 Japan 's experience shows how both the state and big business have helped to maintain such a servicing role in response to the immediate problems of recession , and in adjusting to the probability of a lower growth path through the 1980s .
59 He was getting used to the rooks and had more confidence in the air and in landing among the branches of a tree .
60 Wives could have a very real part to play in this and in attending to the sick stock .
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