Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the banter Lou heard , however , compared with the stories he told about mutual acquaintances — sometimes in the embarrassed and blushing presence of the people about whom he talked . |
| 2 | The Finns were not the most adventurous of people under any circumstances , and courting trouble with the Russians was a highly dubious enterprise . |
| 3 | Thus at the acoustic-phonetic level the Chart could represent , for example , a segment lattice , which as the project progressed , could contain segmentation and labelling information of increasing complexity . |
| 4 | Hinton Safety Consultants has published a database containing classification and labelling information for all substances listed in the latest edition of Annex I ( 91/325/EEC ) to the Dangerous substances directive . |
| 5 | It was childish , he said , to think of ousting the French from Indo-China and stemming communism with the means then at hand and , considering the size of the military and economic aid programmes that were available , the pro-American movement could not be built overnight . |
| 6 | The next morning , we were all up early and eating breakfast by eight o'clock . |
| 7 | For Phil Wren , the concourse area was an attempt to embody ‘ the community of Fitch ideal ’ — and certainly provides a well-used social and eating space in restaurant-starved King 's Cross . |
| 8 | Having eliminated some traditional habits such as drinking tea , coffee , and cola-based drinks , and eating chocolate for seven weeks , you now have the chance to include these in your diet once again . |
| 9 | Throughout those years there was a constant building and re-building programme at Howard . |
| 10 | The process of extracting the silver involved smelting the ore , purifying the crude lead and recovering silver from the soft metal , notably by means of the cupellation process . |
| 11 | After an exuberant and spectacular mandate , returning to his previous post in 1988 after an absence of nearly two years , he concentrated his efforts on saving the national heritage , creating a body of trained curators for French museums , and encouraging patronage of the arts without abandoning his penchant for popular adulation ( of which his orchestration of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the French Revolution is the prime example ) . |
| 12 | Major projects during the year included further expenditure on hi-tech knitting machinery , winding equipment at the spinning companies in the U.K. and dyeing and knitting machinery in the U.S.A , as well as continuing expenditure on information technology worldwide . |
| 13 | It was an evening when I knew Lily went to a weekly patriotic sewing and knitting circle in a near-by parish hall . |
| 14 | Visit Tormek at Lindesberg , the wet grinding and sharpening system for all types of woodworkers . |
| 15 | Such a climatic change would severely limit pine growth by causing waterlogging , encouraging bog expansion , and inhibiting regeneration by reducing the number of good seed-years . |
| 16 | Oxidised LDL may also be procoagulant since it has been described as stimulating endothelial tissue factor activity and inhibiting activation of protein C. Despite these tremendous advances , the authors wisely remind us that many patients with coronary disease have few or none of the known risk factors . |
| 17 | Do you discourage disproportionately selfish and helping behaviour in both sexes ? |
| 18 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 19 | James Chin , head of the AIDS surveillance and forecasting unit of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , estimated that by 1995 more than 15,000,000 adults worldwide would be infected with HIV ( human immunodeficiency virus ) , while 500,000-1,000,000 people would die of AIDS each year in developing countries by the end of the decade . |
| 20 | A report from the Environment and Forecasting Institute in Heidelberg , Germany , details the environmental and health costs of the motor car through its life-cycle . |
| 21 | That includes instruction in safety and familiarisation with basic controls leading up to hands-on-regulator-and-shovel driving and firing courtesy of a pool of ex-BR time served drivers and firemen . |
| 22 | However , both YACs contain sequences homologous to KOX21 ( ZNF37 ) and KOX31 ( ZNF33 ) ( Figure 1d , e ) , showing that there are linked ZNF37 and ZNF33 sequences at each ZNF11 locus , and suggesting clustering of ZNF genes . |
| 23 | Regularly going to London raves such as Labyrinth and Dance Party and drawing inspiration from them remains an essential part of her work and lifestyle . |
| 24 | Syllabifying as ab-sent and drawing attention to the familiarity of sent can stop this error . |
| 25 | Similarly , the misspelling abscence can be cured by reminding pupils of absent , and drawing attention to sent again . |
| 26 | Women were empowered to speak about sex , challenging the authority of the experts and drawing attention to their gendered power relations . |
| 27 | HARROGATE ‘ 89 , the international Carpet Fair , confirmed it 's world-wide status and drawing power by again attracting an 8,000-plus visitor attendance — 14.4 per cent of the visitors coming from overseas . |
| 28 | It unites fragments of a classical past with the geometry of modern life , the latter co-existing and drawing strength from the humane vision of the former . |
| 29 | A radio report on March 11 quoted President Moi as deploring the politicization of the Law Society of Kenya , and accusing Muite of inciting taxi drivers and street hawkers to riot . |
| 30 | His acrid and accusing farewell to London was Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ( 1920 ) . |