Example sentences of "and [v-ing] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new country rejected the new name Azania on the grounds that it had slave origins — and preferring the sense that it was a vital part of the continent as a whole . |
| 2 | In an age where liberty has made great advances in the world , there is still conflict , instability and want , causing great misery and inhibiting the peace and co-operation which we want to help to build . |
| 3 | In helping to negotiate a contract for a family member on admission there is scope for clarifying details of daily life , and helping the family and the old person work through their feelings about any restrictions . |
| 4 | Each cell reference can be entered by moving the cursor to the appropriate cell and typing the symbol that follows it . |
| 5 | Although the technical military details of loading and handling the gun and so on , of the angel paintings , is very precise — taken in fact from a Flemish military manual of 1607 — the ‘ common soldier ’ of the image in the manual is not retained : he becomes the gorgeous aristocrat . |
| 6 | Then there were those brown corduroys and blue jeans : the very seams of his old , faded pants enraptured me , seeming to underscore the seductive outlines of his lower frame , running from the back of his thick leather belt down along that mysterious , rich intercrural channel , and coming out at the other end of the tunnel at the tense crossroads orienting the scrotum 's heavy bag with its blissful raphe , or subtly defining and underlining the inside and outside of the long , smooth thighs and the stocky , bulgy , athletic calves . |
| 7 | Burning and looting the countryside as he went , Edward took Caen and subjected it to a brutal sacking . |
| 8 | Perhaps I am being unnecessarily cynical but it seems that too much of a designer maker 's time is spent on public relations and maintaining the image and there is less willingness to share the things learned from technical and creative nightmares . |
| 9 | LORD HANWORTH M.R. [ after stating the facts and accepting the principle that a creditor is not bound by an agreement to accept a smaller sum in satisfaction of a larger ascertained amount , unless there be a benefit or even any legal possibility of benefit to the creditor thrown in ] : We have , therefore , to consider whether the agreement that was made here on July 6 was an agreement to do anything else than simply to pay on Friday , July 8 , into the hand of the creditors the sum which was already ascertained and in respect of which there was not only the legal liability , but a duty enforceable by any mode of execution against the debtor . |
| 10 | 2 ) Positioning the mouse cursor on the text line and using the backspace or delete keys to delete the numbers and then typing in the new value . |
| 11 | Kathy and John Reynolds ( from Reynolds Brothers , Sydney , probably the largest machine knitting shop in Australia ) both told me that when the Kh900 arrived recently , they found out how to use it by opening the box and using the machine while reading the instruction book . |
| 12 | ‘ People who can must start over Christmas by getting out of their seats and using the switch when they turn off the TV , ’ said FoE energy campaigner , Mr Simon Roberts . |
| 13 | Similarly , there may be variations in people 's experience of purchasing and using the product or service in question . |
| 14 | Ealdred was active within his archdiocese , building refectories for the communities at York and Southwell , and completing the refectory and dormitory and building a presbytery at Beverley , where he decorated the church with paintings and gave a bronze , silver , and gold pulpit and crucifix in the German style . |
| 15 | This is the outer area of the brain usually associated with the elaboration and co-ordination of sensory and motor function at the physical level and reflecting the content and structure of the more subtle sensory and motor indriyas within the mind of the creature . |
| 16 | When she was almost home she picked a sprig of dā telo , pricking her thumb on a thorn and sucking the blood that rose to the surface . |
| 17 | Stroking and circling the chin and jaw |
| 18 | 4 Reasonableness between the parties : competition and canvassing The fact that an employee has agreed to be bound by a restrictive covenant does not in itself make that restriction reasonable between the parties . |
| 19 | Joe , limping along amid the flow of workers and enjoying the exercise and the clear air , saw barges cleaving the sunlit surface of the river , a crowded passenger boat in their wake . |
| 20 | Slackening her step , she felt hope renewing itself as she strolled along the pavements past tubs of flowering plants interspersed with benches crowded with people resting their tired feet or simply sitting back and enjoying the sunshine while they watched the passers-by . |
| 21 | er , thinking of spending a lot of money behind the station and building the supermarket and ploughing it all up , that car park , and then putting the information centre in the old , old |
| 22 | When the steam is taken out of a tense marriage using this process of ventilation , work can continue on resolving the differences and building the quality and richness of the marriage . |
| 23 | They are used for the final stages when working down a tilth and levelling the surface once the large clods and turf have been broken . |
| 24 | More recent theories suggest the crossing place further down river at Rochester or Chatham , but Dunkin tells us the Roman Army ( the seventh and tenth legions ) then turned along through what is now Snodland and Halling burning and wasting the country as they advanced through the villages . |
| 25 | Some of the reasons for this — the difficulty of deciding on appropriate proxy variables and on economical yet non-biasing temporal and spatial sampling frameworks , taking account of the relative importance of aperiodic and rare events as compared to near-continuous processes , processing the vast volumes of data usually involved and organizing the multidisciplinary and ( often ) multinational researchers involved — are discussed briefly later . |
| 26 | Being caught up within the clinical culture , learning by immersion , and absorbing the practice and principles of the firm may seem to leave the educational process to chance but all respondents pleaded that any changes in the preregistration year should not depreciate or downgrade the contribution of apprenticeship to the training process . |
| 27 | The South West Vineyards Association was having its annual fling , and checking the competition as well . |
| 28 | In 1971 the Industrial Relations Act was passed , which made trade union privileges conditional upon registering and satisfying the Registrar that their internal rules contained minimum safeguards for their members ' rights . |
| 29 | There was no point in her dropping out and wrecking the film and , in any case , for as long as she worked the film company would pick up Maisie 's crippling Canadian hospital bills . |
| 30 | What could be simpler than the ball carrier going in , turning and setting with the support player going in low and hard and stripping the ball as he turns ? |