Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often helpful to create several small files ( 5-10 entries maximum ) with varying layouts and indexing as an aid to discussion at the design stage . |
| 2 | Let us now consider the requirements of a multiprogramming system , where we have a number of programs occupying main storage and competing for an allocation of time on the processor . |
| 3 | The COB accused Paz Zamora of giving in to United States pressure and reneging on an election promise that crop substitution measures would remain the central strategy to eradicate the growing of coca crops by 60,000 peasant farmers , many of whom were former tin miners made redundant as a result of the collapse of the international price of tin . |
| 4 | Because of their ill-fitting saddles and the fact that the Austrians did not follow the practice of the British cavalry of riding for an hour and walking for an hour to rest their horses , most of the animals developed sore backs . |
| 5 | However , while returning home with the Cup might not quite be an occasion for breaking out the ticker tape and launching into an orgy of street parties , it would be nice to see England do well , and there is no reason why they should not . |
| 6 | Because of the extra buffers this salt does not claim to be the fastest dissolving around , and aerating for an hour after mixing may improve results . |
| 7 | The ORF , starting at nucleotide 289 and ending with an UAG stop codon at position 2119 , contains the POU domain . |
| 8 | The Organization of Petrolem Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) held its six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 , electing Jibril Aminu of Nigeria as OPEC President , and ending with an agreement to allow member countries to continue to produce near to capacity in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 9 | After three colourful years beginning as a nanny and ending as an officer manager/researcher for Newsday , a New York based newspaper , I returned to London with my Russian husband . |
| 10 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I feel so silly with my lord gazing at me from head to foot and Sir Jacob grinning and laughing like an oaf . |
| 11 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 12 | Pearson hoped that the sense of authenticity in his films would ‘ carry feeling and understanding to an audience , ’ but it was odd to imagine he could achieve genuine popularity by avoiding suspense and dramatic conflict . |
| 13 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 14 | He had an impeccable record of anti-Turkish activity , from the time he had enlisted in Major Mihaljević 's forces at the age of twenty , fighting with the hajduks after the Austrian desertion in 1791 , and serving as an officer in the Serbian militia which fought off Pazvantoglu 's attack in 1797 . |
| 15 | Christmas in an hotel room is n't everyone 's idea of bliss , but Kenneth 's presence makes it home , and we spend the morning sitting in bed listening to a carol service on the radio , watching Walt Disney and nibbling on an assortment of Marks and Spencer goodies before the heat of the room rendered them inedible . |
| 16 | They had lit a torch which was flaring and smoking in an iron bracket . |
| 17 | What is more it is on a Public Transport Category C of A and operating under an AOC , will be available this summer for advanced seaplane instruction , charter and pleasure flying , scenic tours and corporate days-out . |
| 18 | An instrument for structural studies by using ion scattering and recoiling should be capable of varying the scattering ( θ ) , beam incident ( α ) , and crystal azimuthal ( δ ) angles — ie the angle between the primary ion beam direction and the crystallographic axes — ( see Fig. 1 ) ; generating a pulsed kiloelectronvolt ion beam of low fluence ; efficiently detecting ions and neutrals ; and operating in an ultrahigh vacuum ( 10 -10 Torr ) . |
| 19 | One of the nurses she had seen in the cloakroom was standing in the middle of the corridor , flushed pink and grinning like an idiot , while That Man lounged on one leg in all his taut leather and chatted her up . |
| 20 | The end of the war meant the end of the blissful congruence between fantasy and reality , and Churchill turned to painting and writing in an effort to regain that happy state . |
| 21 | Happy Mondays , The Stone Roses , Flowered Up , Primal Scream and The Paris Angels have no real feel for club music ; they 've brought in the ‘ wrong ’ element , and so the purists and the elitists are changing direction and looking for an alternative . |
| 22 | But now he was of an age and living in an era whose insecurities craved the reassurance of nursery images , the illusory solidity of Victorian values which , if they had never existed , could always be invented . |
| 23 | The feudal summons had some attractive features from the nobility 's point of view : service without pay by virtue of tenure and according to an oath of homage was considered an honourable obligation ; and whenever a feudal muster was ordered the tenants-in-chief were entitled to levy scutage on their own tenants . |
| 24 | The company was owed I£180 million for supplies exported to Iraq since 1986 , and according to an announcement by O'Malley on Aug. 28 , 1990 , the group owed over I£450 million to 33 banks . |
| 25 | The fires caused only minor damage , and according to an engineer at the plant there were no effects on the environment . |
| 26 | Nutrition experts argue over the various merits of ginseng , but its components point to its three main powers : slowing down the ageing process ; giving stamina and endurance , and acting as an aphrodisiac . |
| 27 | Perhaps money has become too much of a god — to the exclusion of good common sense , and leading to an abdication of responsibility . |
| 28 | If they can do this , a change of plan at an early stage can usually prevent the situation from developing and leading to an accident . |
| 29 | And so I , we have written to them and waiting for an answer . |
| 30 | The atmosphere of this immensely still , stranded landscape , empty and waiting like an Eden , was beginning to affect him , in spite of all his doubts . |