Example sentences of "and [verb] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes . |
| 2 | A small plastic bag , rather sticky and smelling of chemicals . |
| 3 | There was also a chipped enamel mug stained almost black inside and smelling of spirits . |
| 4 | Erm but again you 've got to try and think of ways of coping with any difficulties that you 've got . |
| 5 | Erm yeah so I mean that 's generally the way to go so I th I think you know it 's probably worth working away towards a , a more specific set of questions that you might want to ask and , and think of ways of administering them so you get some sort of , you know , numerical information in the end . |
| 6 | An Act was passed in the reign of Elizabeth I " against the erecting and maintaining of cottages " with the aim of " avoiding the great inconveniences which are found to grow by the creating … of great numbers and multitudes of cottages " … |
| 7 | The implications which these authors seek to deduce is that , since it is wrong to base a strategic doctrine on a potential illegal use of weapons , the policy of deterrence based on assured destruction should be ‘ declaratory ’ only , and that actual plans should be based on the development , deployment and targeting of weapons which ‘ should be intended for use only against military objectives and be as discriminate as reasonably possible in their collateral effects upon the civilian population and property ’ ( Builder and Graubard , 1982 , p. 51 ) . |
| 8 | We are continuing to experience a significant er pressure from schools in terms of requests for form assessment and statementing of children with special educational needs . |
| 9 | The walls of the cottage were thick enough to shut out the worst sounds of the storm 's buffeting , and even the creaking of doors and rattling of windows could not keep me awake for long . |
| 10 | Other techniques , such as echo-sounding and soil scanning radar , are currently being developed , and are likely to be used more and more in the future for accurate location and surveying of sites . |
| 11 | I did not have to pretend that he was a great man : by his acts , his understanding , and his solicitude , and by the example he set and maintained of standards higher than those of his fellows , he showed himself to be one . |
| 12 | The biggest shares of the cost would go to cleaning up and limiting acidification ( to which Dutch soils are among the most vulnerable in Europe ) and disposing of wastes . |
| 13 | For cereals the " co-responsibility levy " on production — to help pay for storing and disposing of surpluses — was raised from 3 to 5 per cent ( rather than 6 per cent as proposed by the Commission ) except for farmers taking 15 per cent of their land out of production for a year . |
| 14 | But Dent repeats that recycling may not always be the best option from an environmental viewpoint for managing waste in general and disposing of plastics in particular . |
| 15 | What we are endeavouring to and the company has not as yet went out and dispersed of apprentices willy-nilly . |
| 16 | A company following the marketing concept overseas , i.e. trying to satisfy the needs and wants of target markets at a profit , must keep abreast of changes in the cultural environment which affect people 's attitudes and values , and hence , indirectly , their needs and wants of products and services . |
| 17 | To experience something , ourselves , is to make us more sensitive to the needs and wants of others . |
| 18 | This is coming from a 34-year-old goat-mad , nut — but one who also understands the needs and wants of goats , as I have been keeping goats since I was 16 years old . |
| 19 | One set of reactions to a traumatic experience are termed ‘ positive ’ , a non-evaluative term , and consist of compulsions to repeat an action or thought , and fixation at an early stage of development . |
| 20 | Some of these conditions are internal to the learner , e.g. motivational states , attitudes , intelligence ; others are under the direct control of the teacher and consist of ways of structuring teaching . |
| 21 | The structure of a graph is such that it will allow checking and searching of pathways between letters from any point in it , in either direction . |
| 22 | It stepped slowly towards Tallis , crouched with much rustling and snapping of sinews and reached a long , tapering twig-finger to touch her hand . |
| 23 | The story was obliquely based on the death of Philip 's father and told of miners digging their way to their trapped workmates . |
| 24 | Of the late Cdr Boakes , however , we can report that he contested 28 Parliamentary elections , tried unsuccessfully to prosecute Prince Philip for careless driving ( and the Queen for aiding and abetting ) and disapproved of fireworks and homosexuals . |
| 25 | Selling , buying and valuing of hotels |
| 26 | Certainly we often think and speak of decisions and the like as effects . |
| 27 | It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in making , conforming enlarging , restraining , abrogating , repealing , reviving , and expounding of laws , concerning matters of all possible denominations , ecclesiastical or temporal , civil , military , or criminal : this being the place where that absolute despotic power , which must in all governments reside somewhere , is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms . |
| 28 | There will be the closures and mothballing of pits , there will be a reduction of Apex jobs under the reorganization now taking place and steps towards privatization will begin . |
| 29 | Both of them were breathing hard , such a hurry and scramble of lips , hands , such a heat inside and between them , he stuffed one small breast into his mouth and then the other , giving her the same churn of astonished guilty pleasure as when she lay on her bed in the afternoons and read the forbidden books she smuggled home from the library . |
| 30 | He followed the trend into feature-length films and directed One Million BC and produced Of Mice and Men . |