Example sentences of "and [v-ing] the [noun] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politically it was the awakening of these groups which was most important , for as Professor Christie has concluded : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such shortcomings must be set against the big truth — that today 's CAP is a supremely insidious way of extracting $85 billion from consumers within the EC , and queering the pitch for farmers everywhere else . |
| 5 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |