Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [art] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proactive stance is essential in terms of setting and maintaining the mood for change across the various agencies of justice . |
| 2 | ‘ As a result , important gas reserves will now be produced into the next century , benefiting the local population and completing an investment for LASMO which — Inshallah ! — has every prospect of providing well-earned profits in due course . ’ |
| 3 | Robyn had somehow got into the position of cooking dinner , not wanting to admit that the simple process of preparing and cooking a meal for Luke filled her with dread . |
| 4 | It was the clubs which had to be dragged screaming into the national club competition , the All Ireland League , two seasons ago after dithering and delaying a decision for years . |
| 5 | Politically it was the awakening of these groups which was most important , for as Professor Christie has concluded : |
| 6 | Shouting ‘ Long live democracy ’ and singing the ‘ Internationale ’ , they were in some ways evoking the spirit of ‘ May Fourth ’ and paving the way for others to take in following years . |
| 7 | But getting rid of the TV and keeping the bedroom for sex could be the best cure of all . |
| 8 | Traditionally in summer they were based ashore , living in skin tents and sod huts , hunting and fishing from skin canoes ( kayaks and family-sized umiaks ) among the ice floes , trapping fish at weirs and stone barriers in the rivers , and searching the tundra for caribou , musk oxen , smaller game , birds , eggs and berries . |
| 9 | This particular initiative in community education , although building on a period of active community involvement , set out at an early stage to involve local residents in controlling the educational programme and establishing a structure for participation which , it was hoped , would avoid the sort of elitism which beset the WEA . |
| 10 | A great deal of time and energy has gone into dealing with anomalies and revising the formula for funding so that it distributes more fairly on the basis of need . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , to be honest , by now I expected you to be shrugging your shoulders and turning the car for home . |
| 12 | Making this substitution in P2/T4 and adding a row for z 2 gives P2/T5 . |
| 13 | More than just buying an operating system and securing a future for Novell , Noorda — a man held in high regard by a wide cross section of industry executives — takes on the expectations of all those seeing him as a Moses figure capable of stitching up the highly personalised wounds inflicted during the Unix wars and the aborted peace attempts . |
| 14 | The story tells us , at a literal level , how Hartleap Well received its name ; the curious prose preface emphasizes this and also conveys the idea of commemorating and preserving a tradition for posterity . |
| 15 | ‘ although in the Act of 1990 Parliament introduced a new statutory machinery for supervising and regulating the rules for education and conduct for those who are to have rights of audience in the courts it decided not to interfere expressly with the jurisdiction of the Inns , under the supervision of the judges , to decide who were fit and proper persons to be admitted to the Inns for training or their liberty to decide the criteria which should dictate their admissions policy . |
| 16 | And extra investment in industry will be directed to still further improving that productivity and minimising the need for manpower . |
| 17 | The tongued and grooved joints , in addition to allowing concealed fixing with neat joint lines and removing the need for grouting , negate the need for special skills thus reducing installation costs . |
| 18 | The violence and the killing are fuelling extremist factions and providing a pretext for men like vigilante leader , Hennie Muller . |
| 19 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 20 | There was also a growing market for books as literacy increased , though there was not yet universal schooling : the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , the Mechanics Institutes and the so-called March of Mind were features of the time leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832 , and indicating a market for non-fiction . |
| 21 | The cost of digging and finishing a pit for repairs £600 . |
| 22 | He must have then done some painting on Mr. Bellersis ' work as there are two more references to his colouring and finishing the colouring for Mr. Bellersis Also , when in London he used to visit his former teacher John Landseer and also mentioned going with him to see plates , ‘ and compositor printer at work ’ . |
| 23 | Koriyama city was able to provide the museum with a budget of ¥6,400 million ( £26.6 million ) , spending ¥4,000 million ( £16.6 million ) on the building and reserving the rest for acquisitions . |
| 24 | Poverty always spells weakness , vulnerability , humiliation , and having no prospects for improvement . |
| 25 | The defendant 's solicitor endorses on the copy summons a certificate duly accepting service and giving an address for service . |
| 26 | We used discriminate analysis for the remaining results , with the primary diagnosis group as the dependent variable and entering the scores for antibody markers stepwise . |
| 27 | If after the next election there is a clear majority of Members committed to reforming the United Kingdom and creating a Parliament for Scotland within the United Kingdom , will the Conservative party accept the verdict of the people of Scotland ? |
| 28 | The allocation of discrete tasks to non-executives advocated by Cadbury , coupled with their monitoring role , is seen as divisive , robbing the board of its power to manage and creating the potential for boardroom splits . |
| 29 | Home seemed drab , centred as it was around domestic duties and financial worries , and affording no opportunities for entertainment or emotional release . |
| 30 | Throughout the United States of America , this method of compensation relies on the victim bringing a civil action against the perpetrator and obtaining an order for damages which can then be recovered from the confiscated funds . |