Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such was this sailor 's quality of draughtsmanship that he had to develop a technique of etching and aquatinting to multiply the number of views required to satisfy the demand . |
| 32 | Mark Allen , aged 23 , of Stockwell , south London , had been acquitted at the Old Bailey on Thursday of murdering Victor Johnson , 57 , and his wife Audrey , 54 , but convicted of manslaughter , incitement to arson and attempting to pervert the course of justice . |
| 33 | Yesterday Lamont , of Kensington Road , Middlesbrough , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted criminal damage and attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving the police a false name when arrested . |
| 34 | The trial opened on Jan. 9 of 14 senior military officers , including five major-generals , facing charges of mutiny and attempting to overthrow the government by force . |
| 35 | Monitoring and attempting to prevent the pollution will cost millions over the next few years and will be passed directly to the consumer as an unforseen expense . |
| 36 | The best that was on offer from the National Refugee Service in New York was cooperation to ‘ get in touch with American relatives and affiants and attempting to secure the steamship fare , or as much of it as possible , from them ’ . |
| 37 | Then I asked her to visualize taking hold of the doorknob and pulling open the cupboard door . |
| 38 | It is an unusual technological challenge to be certain of the market and racing to produce the chemical to meet it . |
| 39 | RESIGNATION AND CEASING TO HOLD THE OFFICE OF A COUNCILLOR |
| 40 | She knew that she should never have accepted it , she thought , as she knelt on the carpet , placing the mug down beside her and beginning to search the floor for the elusive ring . |
| 41 | He says : ‘ I think we are near the bottom and beginning to see the slope up . ’ |
| 42 | The others both involve some drilling and chiselling to create the recess for the new flush double box . |
| 43 | The adjutant watched them stroll back to their billets , unbuttoning their flying coats , stamping and kicking to work the stiffness away . |
| 44 | Since that time , BRAC has grown into a country-wide development organisation , remaining independent of the government , and striving to improve the quality of life for the people of Bangladesh . |
| 45 | Mortimer reholstered his gun , satisfied at a job well done , and striving to contain the excitement he felt at the combat . |
| 46 | Each centre participating in a consortium development and wishing to offer the course or units should submit a Form HN1 — Request for Approval in Principle to Participate in 1989 Programme . |
| 47 | Having devoted the greater part of this year and last to extending its near hegemony in the market for low-end and mid-range Unix-based imaging solutions , promoting the GL graphics library as a de facto standard , and continuing to digest the business of the former MIPS Computer Systems Inc , SGI has n't given much attention to its high-end . |
| 48 | We did n't get the new name of Unir Corp 's version of Calico , the AT&T object-oriented language , right last week : its actually styling it C+ ( say Cat ) and continuing to call the environment Calico , which of course is a cat of many colours . |
| 49 | Transition fields are often thought of as weak but predominantly dipolar , as would occur if the dynamo were inactive and failing to regenerate the field . |
| 50 | The British believed that Washington was underestimating and failing to grasp the nature of their economic problems . |
| 51 | The Home Secretary and the Minister of State must face up to two facts : first , that their party is guilty of creating the conditions for crime and failing to tackle the root causes of crime ; and , secondly , that the police do not have the tools for the job . |
| 52 | Acting through a second firm of lawyers , Jean-Jacques Walter has taken out proceedings against the French State in the European courts of Strasbourg and Luxemburg for violating the European Convention of Human Rights and failing to apply the Treaty of Rome . |
| 53 | We turn in , with the wind picking up even stronger and threatening to blow the lavvu away . |
| 54 | He had reckoned without the mother , however , who started behaving very violently , plunging the house into darkness one night trying to electrocute herself , and threatening to wreck the warehouse where her husband kept his stocks . |
| 55 | RADIO is undergoing a huge surge in popularity and starting to close the gap with television , a report said today . |
| 56 | The crowd was still there , but someone in uniform was pushing his way through and starting to harangue the singer . |
| 57 | CAN you imagine a situation at a cemetery — the funeral procession arriving , formally attired people getting out of cars at a marked spot , but some of these well-dressed mourners removing their jackets , rolling up sleeves , unloading picks and spades from the boot and starting to dig the grave ; possibly with the professionals cum gardeners watching from a distance and gloating at the mess these amateurs are making ? |
| 58 | ( Because of the special utility function assumed , Differentiating the pricing equations , and letting denote the share in marginal costs , |
| 59 | All week-end he drove about the outer suburbs with Jannie and the boys , calling on relatives and letting fall the news in the course of conversation . |
| 60 | Nigel having made his views clear by letter and having gained the support of the National Association of Water Power Users , no summons was issued . |