Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our priority has been the improvement of BP 's performance by setting clearer business targets , aligning more closely the reward and recognition of individuals ’ and teams ’ contributions with performance , and encouraging greater teamwork . |
| 2 | By attracting famous names BPT hopes to create a snowball effect , boosting confidence and encouraging smaller retailers to take up space . |
| 3 | We continue to explore alternative ways of managing our operations more effectively and generating better returns on the residential landholdings which we control . |
| 4 | Indeed , Goldsmith argues that on finance , ‘ the Scottish Office has been the pioneer for the Imperial core , seeking and using greater controls over local government ’ than was the case in England ( 1986 , p. 168 ) . |
| 5 | With the lens in macro mode , the depth of field is very small and using larger f stops is beneficial since they give greater depth of field in focus . |
| 6 | It is worth knowing that you can run Qbasic from a floppy only system and using earlier version of MS-DOS all you need are the three files listed to be stored on the current drive . |
| 7 | They took the fish to an unaffected stretch of canal 150 yards away and realising bigger fish were still distressed returned on Thurday to finish the job . |
| 8 | Bui Tin , who had lived in Paris since September 1990 , had issued a controversial " citizen 's petition " in December criticizing the CPV leadership and demanding greater reforms . |
| 9 | On June 6 the University of Zimbabwe authorities took action against students protesting at the high level of fees and demanding higher grants . |
| 10 | By the 1880s his time was being spent , in a private capacity , inveighing in pamphlets and on platforms on the scandals which were evident in the administration of merchant shipping legislation and demanding further reforms . |
| 11 | Only better priests could achieve satisfactory relations with their parishioners , and producing better priests meant giving thought to the clerical estate as a whole . |
| 12 | Designing and producing better pages |
| 13 | By doing this , non-craft trained staff can repeat faithfully the correct cooking instructions thereby ensuring a monitor to due diligence and allowing greater management peace of mind . |
| 14 | I was driving along t you know t telling David that all the time that that people are on the roads practising how to drive and becoming better drivers there are people like that wally there crossing the roa Oh , it 's Simon . |
| 15 | Issues considered include conducting supplier audits and launching greener products . |
| 16 | The 1982 reorganisation tried to simplify some of the worst complexities of 1974 by pruning the consultative machinery , abolishing the area tiers , simplifying the planning machinery and advocating greater devolution of decision-making to units of management at the level of hospitals and community services . |
| 17 | There is growing evidence of young people getting bored with their daily stars and seeking greater thrills in darker occult areas . |
| 18 | It was while he was away in England , crowning his wife as queen and seeking further material support for the war , that his brother , Thomas , duke of Clarence , was defeated and killed at Bauge , in Anjou , by a Franco-Scottish force on 22 March 1421 . |
| 19 | The notion of paying GP 's to provide certain specified standards of service and undertake certain preventative health measures was a step forward , in terms of both public health accountability and promoting better health . |
| 20 | THE Further and Higher Education Bill is now law , clearing the way for polytechnics to be renamed universities and turning further education colleges into independent companies free from local government control . |
| 21 | In all this , music has a significant role to play in enabling and fostering closer relationships between the denominations . |
| 22 | However , despite holding on to the Senate for a total of six years and securing further landslides in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections , the Republicans have not been able to bring about a real realignment — a fundamental reordering of political loyalties extending down through all levels of the political system . |
| 23 | A paved patio and paved footpath leads to the extensive rear garden with large lawned area and surrounding lower beds . |
| 24 | Officer education itself is presently carried on by about 140 officer commissioning middle and higher military schools , offering four to five year courses and conferring higher education degrees : fully 13 per cent of all higher education in the USSR is now carried out in the military sector . |
| 25 | Back in Ockleton 's rooms at Breakspear , seated by a roaring fire and sipping finer port than he could ever recall tasting , he had asked Ockleton to explain his reaction earlier to Harry 's revelation that Alan Dysart had once worked for him in Swindon . |
| 26 | First , black workers were recruited for precisely those jobs , usually poorly paid and involving unpleasant working conditions , which the indigenous white working class was able to reject at the time of economic expansion , thus preventing the development of bottlenecks in production and permitting higher levels of capital accumulation . |
| 27 | But much of their case rests on a proposed strategy of selecting new entrants to the profession more carefully and providing better initial and in-service training in classroom skills . |
| 28 | Islandia , New York-based Computer Associates International Inc says it is now shipping CA-Clipper 5.2 , which it says improves performance , extending its functionality and providing better links to foreign data : it costs $800 , and is offered to existing users at $150 ; users of dBase or compatibles will pay $200 . |
| 29 | It is always a pleasure to meet you in the field and I appreciate your commitment to creating a better housing business and providing greater satisfaction for our customers . |
| 30 | The result suggested an increasingly fragmented political scene , confirming the importance of the regional Lombardy League and providing further evidence — following on from the referendum on electoral reform in June 1991 — of the erosion of support for power-sharing between the DC and the PSI . |