Example sentences of "and [v-ing] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE ARE AN INTERNATIONAL MULTICULTURAL TEAM WORKING FOR PEACE AND OPPOSING ANY FORM OF AGGRESSION , PAST , PRESENT , OR FUTURE BY ANY PARTY IN THE GULF . |
| 2 | Colour pieces of the remaining fondant icing ( and using any trimmings ) to make the sailor — fleshy pink , blue and a little white . |
| 3 | Operating on a word at a time using letter prototypes and allowing any letter to follow any letter , elastic matching is used to find the prototype sequence which best fits the input word vector . |
| 4 | The modern desire for open-plan has led to the removal of many bar-partitions , destroying the character of original interiors and distorting any attempt to create a truly ‘ Victorian ’ interior . |
| 5 | It shows the amount owing at the beginning of the period plus the amounts on invoices issued , and deducting any discounts , returns or cash payments . |
| 6 | Using natural therapies , the emphasis is on increasing your vitality and tackling any problems . |
| 7 | ( This rate will be applied when difficulty is experienced in agreeing measured rates , for example time spent unloading materials , adjusting scaffolding for use by other trades and reinstating any work damaged by others . ) |
| 8 | Cut the required number of widths of fabric and join them to make one long strip with a plain open seam and matching any pattern . |
| 9 | The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers . |
| 10 | If these depressions ( or low pressure areas ) are tracking in towards Ireland rather than taking a more northerly route , then the circulation of wind flowing clockwise ( as it must ) round the depression means that south-easterly winds will be blowing over Shetland from the North Sea and pushing any birds unfortunate enough to be flying to ( or from ) Scandinavia at the time in a westerly direction . |
| 11 | The tutor is permitted to assist the student in obtaining and operationalising any resources required for the investigation , eg computers and software . |
| 12 | … With regard to the charges register , there is no ground for interfering with it and directing any rectification . |
| 13 | ( c ) To apply for , register , purchase , or by other means acquire and protect , prolong and renew , whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere any patents , patent rights , brevets d'invention , licences , secret processes , trade marks , designs , protections and concessions and to disclaim , alter , modify , use and turn to account and to manufacture under or grant licences or privileges in respect of the same , and to expend money in experimenting upon , testing and improving any patents , inventions or rights which the Company may acquire or propose to acquire . |
| 14 | ( c ) To apply for , register , purchase , or by other means acquire and protect , prolong and renew , whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere any patents , patent rights , brevets d'invention , licences , secret processes , trade marks , designs , protections and concessions and to disclaim , alter , modify , use and turn to account and to manufacture under or grant licences or privileges in respect of the same , and to expend money in experimenting upon , testing and improving any patents , inventions or rights which the Company may acquire or propose to acquire . |
| 15 | The possibility of marrying on £300 a year and preserving any pretensions to gentility was much discussed in agony columns ( Banks 1954 ) . |
| 16 | This will provide an opportunity for investigating the complaints and remedying any flaws before the trial . |
| 17 | Mr Salmond underlined the SNP 's aim of advancing Scotland 's case at Westminster and extracting any concessions from the system . |
| 18 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 19 | This part of town had grown up organically , defying and outgrowing any order the town planners may once have tried to impose , and Huy knew it intimately . |
| 20 | It aims to soothe the reader by articulating and appropriating any objection . |
| 21 | Under the terms of the Antarctic Treaty , signatory nations are committed to protecting wildlife , and removing any waste to the country of origin . |
| 22 | Kell testified that prostitutes in inspected towns were ‘ vain girls ’ under no restraint and lacking any sense of innate morality . |
| 23 | It is not surprising that the general trends for the indigenous population of the Russian colony of Siberia from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century were that some individuals , mainly ‘ chiefs ’ or traders , adapted to the ways of their conquerors and became successful according to the standards of Russian society , while the mass of their compatriots , exploited by the Russian system and lacking any means of redress , fell increasingly into poverty and degradation . |
| 24 | These theories regarding the increasing use of compulsion have been criticised by Dingwall and his colleagues ( 1983 ) as lacking in authoritative statistical basis , and lacking any overview of the relative , as opposed to absolute , use of compulsory intervention . |
| 25 | Mada Joyce did some higglering in the neighbourhood , taking produce from the smallholdings down to the market in the coastal town of Annotto to sell and buying any goods the villagers might require while she was there . |
| 26 | At the same time , his chief object of popular musical study , the Tin Pan Alley hit , was governed to some extent by those criteria , thus confirming him in his approach , and discouraging any consideration of possible new criteria . |
| 27 | Write a preliminary memorandum , embodying your proposals for a sampling scheme with a consideration of possible frames and indicating any difficulties of execution or interpretation that occur to you . |
| 28 | As in Colombia , drugs are gradually pervading every aspect of national life — from street-child dope pedlars to those in high office — and undermining any chance of effective democracy . |
| 29 | But attribution could only be meaningful if trade union representatives on company boards everywhere and always accepted wholeheartedly the duties of ownership along with the rights , so changing the role of the unions fundamentally and abandoning any pretence to industrial democracy . |
| 30 | From there he issued demands to the Republic and failing any reply captured Bandung ( 22 January 1950 ) and planned a coup to depose the USI government in Jakarta . |