Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cuthbertson also advanced the subject of electricity in the Netherlands , writing books , giving public lectures , and assisting some of the foremost Dutch scientists with their experiments . |
| 2 | Supporting literature includes specially commissioned guides to accessing and using each of the services |
| 3 | Claiming to speak at Gorbachev 's behest , and using some of the most hardline language heard from a senior official in recent years , Kryuchkov lumped together groups ranging from radicals to nationalists to economic saboteurs in warning that anti-democratic forces were " rushing to seize power on a wave of anti-communism " . |
| 4 | The most scenic and demanding half of the walk is to the north of the pass , through the southern section is no pushover . |
| 5 | And then , almost as if he had received some secret signal , he gave a slight nod of his head , grinning sardonically down at her for a moment before rolling off her body and gathering one of the twins up in his arms . |
| 6 | Here is conscientious Boris Nikolayevich , completing his graduate dissertation in one month rather than the usual five and then refusing the automatic promotion for which this would normally have qualified him , resolving instead to spend a year laying bricks , mixing concrete and becoming one of the boys . |
| 7 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 8 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 9 | From 1651 he worked from the Bell in St Paul 's Churchyard , developing a prosperous partnership with James Allestry , and becoming one of the most prominent booksellers of Restoration London . |
| 10 | Speed is important to prevent the parasitised birds from catching sight of the intruder and becoming aware of the deception , for then they may desert the nest altogether . |
| 11 | The book has many pictures showing children learning to relax through play and simple exercises ; 8–to 13–year olds are shown developing their ability to relax and becoming aware of the difference between tension and relaxation . |
| 12 | There will also be short talks by academic and industrial speakers on assessing and tackling some of the educational problems and it is proposed to distribute a compilation of laboratory scripts from participants . |
| 13 | The framework aims to provide a tool for analysing and explaining many of the fundamental rules of company law . |
| 14 | In the meantime , I 'd really like to hear from any of you ( especially with a fully-fledged article and/or some pictures ) who have specialised in a large coldwater community set-up , preferably mixing and matching some of the more unusual species such as Sunbass , Weather Loach , Miller 's Thumb , Rainbow Dace , or Jordanella — the list is long . |
| 15 | Your stringer should be able to explain these terms and more — and understanding some of the stringers ' buzz words can be useful , even if it 's just to impress your friends . |
| 16 | ‘ The power of quality is all-pervasive and accessing some of the softer sides of the business will give hidden but important gains . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , look at this one , ’ said the interviewer , becoming quite indignant and picking one of the schools ' letters contemptuously from the pile . |
| 18 | In more than one school which we studied , parental involvement in the decoration and adaptation of library premises was important in placing the project in context , and in several others , parent volunteers assisted in running the library and meeting some of the increased demand to which the project gave rise . |
| 19 | So a hurt child will be moody and often intensively provocative , testing out the validity of the proffered affection and expressing some of the pent-up anger and agony from the past . |
| 20 | ‘ What ? ’ cried the great dragon , his deep brass-gonged voice ringing out and causing several of the gems to tinkle off the jade pagoda . |
| 21 | For sure then , the post/modern , in dismantling and displacing some of the ideological formations of the Enlightenment , Romanticism , and modernism , finds itself in a paradoxical but illuminating relationship with the early modern . |
| 22 | Pro-marketeers of a social democratic type have been prepared to manage markets : restricting the area of their use ( keeping them out of such things as health care ) ; moderating their tendency to generate inequality , ( by policies of income redistribution ) ; and preserving some of the market 's industrial casualties by nationalizing bankrupt firms and industries . |
| 23 | Frequently we abstract from this covenant by singling out the Ten Commandments and ignoring much of the remainder of the Mosaic code . |
| 24 | As well as reducing the control problems which beset British secondary schools , and overcoming some of the difficulties of ‘ secondary transfer ’ , this mode of organisation must also strengthen the relationship between parents and schools . |
| 25 | Its emphasis is on modern and contemporary history , exploring and analysing many of the major developments which have shaped the late 20th-century world . |
| 26 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 27 | In another it sold a part of the whole enterprise by converting the public corporation into Companies Act companies and selling half of the shares : it did this , for example , by reducing its stock in BP from 51 to 46 per cent in 1979 , then to 39 per cent in 1981 , and again to 31.7 per cent in 1984 . |
| 28 | He helped by doing much of the specialist machining work and designing many of the one-off items needed to marry up the different parts . |
| 29 | But all this is beyond the needs of the average local historian , as well as for the most part being beyond his general skills , so this chapter is devoted to giving a broad general outline of how handwriting developed , defining some of the terms used , and describing some of the early styles . |
| 30 | The last four articles in this section reverse this direction of gaze , where the accounts are ‘ looking in ’ instead and describing some of the personal struggles with regard to teaching and change — change either imposed from outside or desired from within . |