Example sentences of "and [v-ing] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we have operating in the same geographical area , in the same economic environment and manufacturing the same product , on the one hand enterprises organised as industrial co-operatives and on the other as conventional firms . |
| 2 | It may be possible to combine these functions by re-editing material for the sell-through market and using the same company , thus making the whole exercise more cost-effective . |
| 3 | Begin with the questions that are obvious to you and using the same method move on to devise questions which will tell you more complex information about the candidate . |
| 4 | All historical financial information provided in the Memorandum has been prepared from and using the same accounting policies as the financial records of the Group . |
| 5 | Dobry 's detailed recommendations ( which totalled 161 ) were aimed in his words , at giving greater freedom to harmless development but also at guarding against harmful development by retaining the current scope of planning control ; at separating from the main stream of applications all those which might cause harm , and disposing of ‘ main stream applications ’ by rapid and routine procedures ; and applying the same approach to appeals . |
| 6 | I took a deep breath of cool air before diving into the blast of heat and walking the few steps to the house . |
| 7 | But they were also so far removed from conditions elsewhere in Italy that Banfield 's attention centred on this intra-national gap , and noting the many efforts which had been made by successive Italian governments to deal with ‘ the Southern Question ’ , he asked why these peripheral ‘ backward societies ’ were , as he put it , ‘ ultra-stable ’ , apparently trapped in dependency and poverty . |
| 8 | ‘ He does n't do a damn thing for the good of mankind , but makes one hell of a fat living by buying cheap from one worker and selling the same thing dear to another worker . |
| 9 | Along with Brown ( 48 ) , of Bunbeg Park , and facing the same charge are Paul McCullough ( 48 ) , of Glenalina Road , and Stephen Canning ( 21 ) , of Doon Road . |
| 10 | One quick piece of programming later and a game that was remarkably similar to the original film , and sharing the same name , hit the shelves . |
| 11 | We 're staying at the same hotel and sharing the same table , you see . |
| 12 | Sometimes , in fact , she had felt she was in danger of neglecting the rest of her pupils for though her voice continued to drone on , snapping out an instruction here , a correction there , she was in reality watching Paula out of the corner of her eye , and experiencing the same excitement of discovery that she had felt on the day when Paula had first walked into her office . |
| 13 | They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’ |
| 14 | Had you been living in Oxford and asking the same question I think well then it 's erm you know , it 's obviously a very valid question . |
| 15 | It is worth looking at short- and medium-term goals for staff development and asking the same questions . |
| 16 | ‘ If Ally McCoist , Ian Durrant and Paul McStay had been born bambinos instead of bairns , they would all now be in the Italian first division and commanding the same prices . |
| 17 | While Otley and Nigel squared up to each other Elinor emptied the contents of the envelope onto the table : family snaps , letters , postcards belonging to the Chatwins , the coat of arms well in evidence and having the same circlet of tiny flowers as the monogram on Tumbleweed 's handkerchief . |
| 18 | Fortunately , all such waves can be expressed as the sum of a constant term and an infinite set of harmonic sinewaves , the sinewave of lowest frequency in the harmonic set being known as the fundamental and having the same period as the original nonsinusoidal wave . |
| 19 | This shows the present-value profiles for two bonds A and B , trading at the same price and yield to maturity , and having the same duration . |
| 20 | D.& C. Builders v. Rees ( below , p. 267 ) decides that there is no material distinction between giving a small sum in cash and giving the same amount by a negotiable instrument . |
| 21 | ‘ I am tired of poling the river , telling the same stories and hearing the same ones in return . |
| 22 | If , on the basis of this , I were to proceed to make very careful observations of the weights of a wide variety of human earlobes , recording and categorizing the many observations , I think it is clear that I would not be making any significant contribution to science . |
| 23 | The £5.5 million star endured a heart-stopping few minutes against Genoa , crashing to the ground after a tackle and clutching the same knee in which he ruptured ligaments 16 months ago . |
| 24 | There is all the difference between keeping slim , well-groomed and well-dressed in order to look good at forty-five or fifty , and putting the same amount of effort into an attempt to put back the clock and have another crack at being twenty-five . |
| 25 | ‘ Short of repeating the same threat and wagging the same finger once more , which the offender soon learns to treat with contempt , there must surely be a custodial sanction available . |
| 26 | During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies . |
| 27 | Within their firm containment , he can slowly learn about holding mixed feelings — loving and hating the same person . |
| 28 | For 12 months , BP and Unipart worked together on a basis of trust , getting together the right people from both sides , brainstorming and exploring the many opportunities for collaborative activity — not just in Eastern Europe . |
| 29 | With him in the dock and receiving the same sentences was his business partner , Benedict Marsh , also 28 . |
| 30 | These aims will be achieved by video-recording children at play with their mothers , starting when the children are six months old and following the same children through until twenty-one months of age . |