Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the programme we ask are positive discrimination and chauvinism thriving in the Labour Party ? |
| 2 | She could hear Jenkins and Laidlaw talking in the bar room below her . |
| 3 | He remembered him as ‘ a brown bagger ’ , that is a man who to save money brought a sandwich lunch in a brown bag rather than waste time and money eating in the mess . |
| 4 | Silvicultural management has been practised since the 1920s , beginning first with regulation of the telling cycle and then the stimulation of natural regeneration by cutting climbers , removing uneconomic species and canopy thinning in the 1930s , as has been described by Kio and Ekwebelam ( 1987 ) . |
| 5 | As he uncovered them , he was confronted with the pageant , its gold and silverwork dazzling in the sunshine , and the weathercock gracefully bowing to the north in the breeze . |
| 6 | Mosley 's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession . |
| 7 | Most of it consists of a list of banned substances by brand name , IOC category , points for and against from the doctor 's point of view , contained substances resulting in the ban and misuse resulting in the ban . |
| 8 | All of our clients staying in Murren have free entry to the swimming pool and whirlpool , squash , tennis and ice skating in the centre . |
| 9 | The top boy and girl assisting in the production of clients ' accounts , auditing and other financial services at Walton 's offices in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough will receive £150 of book tokens to help their A-level and degree studies . |
| 10 | Mr McDermott has been the editor of this section of the Financial Times for the past four years , and has written two books on Egypt and peace keeping in the Middle East . |
| 11 | The statement was also allegedly intended to calm the high level of irritation and dissatisfaction existing in the ranks . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ They have given the town record job losses , record home repossessions , record hospital waiting lists and record under-funding in the schools . ’ |
| 13 | BUITONI Balsamic Vinegar is lovingly manufactured all year round by a husband and wife living in the Modena region . |
| 14 | An MP who 's at risk of losing much of his personal fortune in the Lloyds insurance scandal is calling for legal action to stop what he calls the swindling , fraud and insider dealing in the insurance market . |
| 15 | The successor republics have all adopted presidential-type systems , although the degree of power and authority inhering in the executive president varies from republic to republic and according to prevailing political conditions . |
| 16 | ‘ Extensive ground and flight testing in the UK , including the measurement of static thrust and endless climb performance , often measured with electronic recording barographs , has demonstrated that the fourblade propellers , correctly matched to the airframe , give some improvement and that the Gomolzig silencers do not reduce performance ’ , says BGA chief technical officer Dick Stratton . |
| 17 | It was still only eight thirty and , apart from themselves and a man and woman sitting in the far corner , the bar was empty . |
| 18 | a. a man and woman sitting in the living room + the woman sitting reading quite happily — the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window + and gets himself ready and goes out + |
| 19 | and woman sitting in the living room … the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window … and goes out + goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman |
| 20 | ( 29 ) a man and woman sitting in the living room … the man 's bored goes to the window … goes out … goes to a club |
| 21 | When she was a girl , she could lie in bed and hear her mother and father talking in the next room . |
| 22 | We pushed our way into the stable and glimpsed what appeared to be a blood-soaked pile of rags , the gore and slime gleaming in the flickering torch light . |
| 23 | Carson was surprised to see tears of anger and frustration glistening in the corners of Reynolds 's eyes . |
| 24 | Earlier that afternoon , Katherine had stood before the French doors and watched her some and daughter playing in the snow outside . |
| 25 | Rohmer was still sitting on the edge of the desk , his hair and coat whipping in the hellish stormwinds which had been admitted . |
| 26 | Police are now eager to interview Baland 's uncle , a sixty-five year old French national and painter living in the U.S. Police enquiries began in March 1989 with the seizure of a Utrillo painting ‘ Impasse Traînée à Montmartre ’ and a drawing by the same artist ‘ La maison de Mimi Pinson ’ at Bourg-en-Bresse following charges brought against a local auctioneer , by Jean Fabris , chairman of the Association Maurice Utrillo and the man who possesses the ‘ droit moral ’ over Utrillo 's work the right in French law to defend an artist 's reputation , particularly in the courtroom . |
| 27 | The methodology draws on a combination of statistical sources plus an intensive programme of interviews and information gathering in the locality itself , the latter focusing on both employers and households . |
| 28 | Yasushi Mieno , the bank 's governor , raised interest rates to stem the wave of speculative spending that had sent the price of shares and property soaring in the late-1980s . |
| 29 | The task force was set up after detectives discovered that some of the money had been used to finance drugs and property dealing in the United States and even invested in London 's Docklands , realising millions of pounds in profits . |
| 30 | Under the agreement states would monitor air pollution , share technical information , raise funds for environmental protection and conduct joint research on forestry , wildlife management and gas and oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean . |