Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because these five women — with their beautifully made-up , famous faces are the nucleus of Parents for Safe Food , a group founded by celebrities to voice the concerns of an increasing number of men and women about the pesticides and herbicides making their way onto our plates . |
| 2 | It 's not been for us to tell people what they should or should n't eat or do anything with , because the , in , in one respect that 's a nann nannying attitude from er , whether it 's the legislators saying we 're not going to approve the right legislation so that you have that information , but on the other hand by manufacturers and others saying you trust us . |
| 3 | ‘ They flocked around the pole , not daring immediately to come too near , their eyes and beaks devouring my body as I watched . |
| 4 | By Thursday evening , errors and ommissions underwriters are due to remit £116 million to solicitor Richards Butler under the settlement reached last month between underwriter Richard Outhwaite and names suing him for negligence over £260 million of losses . |
| 5 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 6 | He came back to her in a barely controlled rush , gently parting her legs , his mouth and hands caressing her body in a way that made her move sinuously against him , and which wrenched a low moan of need from his throat . |
| 7 | The following year , at a CNAA awards ceremony , he emphasized that it was planning , for academic reasons , a ‘ major shift in the work of validating courses from the Council to the Polytechnics and Colleges running them ’ . |
| 8 | On the verge of passing out , she felt them connect her bluetower to the memorizer and Jezrael drowned in someone else 's memories , the battle-plans and layouts bulling their way in to trample her personality beneath them . |
| 9 | Around half a mile away was the small Hertfordshire town of Tring with shops and bakeries providing everything for a canal side picnic . |
| 10 | For the next sale , a wider range of firms will be eligible to establish shops and applicants using them will have preference in allocations if there is heavy demand . |
| 11 | After the wheat had been harvested and the rice transplanted we were no longer needed , and took the same train back to Raxaul , leaving the buffalo grazing , Goshai fishing and villagers making their offerings under the holy tree . |
| 12 | In their horizontal distribution plants often follow soil patterning ( p. 77 ) , mosses , lichens and angiosperms aligning themselves along the cracks between polygons , with crustose lichens occupying the centres . |
| 13 | An interim report of the team suggests a reasonable degree of satisfaction with the new services with the majority of clients and carers viewing them as helpful . |
| 14 | Against his steady progress I worked the cameras frantically , images and sequences flooding my mind , until suddenly he was up , axes raised against the white of the scurrying clouds . |
| 15 | Jack , who has been breeding ferrets for more than forty years , showed us soft focus shots of brown ferrets , white ferrets , ferrets eating mice and ferrets building their nests in old Athletico programmes . |
| 16 | The week ended with a number of local companies and colleges opening their doors and giving guided tours of their premises to jobseekers , students and the public . |
| 17 | Others would share the view of many countrymen , that Sam and his family were merely taking a reasonable share of what the fells and waters surrounding their home offered them . |
| 18 | Of course it is good to see artists at work and artists discussing their work on TV , but so many of the programmes have been disappointing . |
| 19 | It has been seen that academic institutions have to abide by procedural fairness when applying disciplinary measures , as do trade unions , and it has now been held that prison Visitors and governors exercising their disciplinary functions are subject to certiorari for breach of natural justice . |
| 20 | In one she lay spread-eagled on the tiled floor on which Trueman had met his death , with the playful nymphs and shepherds entwining themselves around her . |
| 21 | Brian Farrell , defending , said the action ‘ set the rot in ’ and as time went on she took larger sums of money , spending it on alcohol , cigarettes , clothing and bills leaving her with nothing tangible to show . |
| 22 | Curated by Joelle Pijaudier with Anne Nardin , the exhibition has been divided into six chronological sections , beginning with a display of the rare early work from 1915 , with a final section of texts and photographs covering his work in architecture , the decorative arts and theatre ( for example his sets for ‘ Le Train Bleu ’ , the ballet choreographed by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes ) . |
| 23 | Mansell 's few were well armed with placards and banners demanding their hero stay with Williams . |
| 24 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 25 | Aboriginal communities have been so disenfranchised in the past that giving them a say in policies and decisions affecting them is seen as a key element in improving their health |
| 26 | Neglecting of clones producing these links is the simpliest way of resolving the corresponding forks , although a more careful analysis of hybridization data for such probe pairs and clones linking them could help to reduce the level of noise . |
| 27 | The vertical columns of Table 10.2 represent the department providing the resources and the horizontal rows the projects and activities using them . |
| 28 | For the groups and associations promoting themselves as school subjects , and irresistibly drawn to claiming ‘ academic status ’ , a central criterion has been whether the subjects ' content could be tested by written examinations for an ‘ able ’ clientele . |
| 29 | But at the close of July Harrogate 's streets begin to empty of carts and gigs , their places taken by coroneted coaches and post-chaises bringing their cargoes of nobler-blooded visitors . |
| 30 | But he said it was a temporary blip arising from greater throughput of cases in the civil courts ; increased efficiency at the Scottish Legal Aid Board and solicitors submitting their accounts more speedily because of the recession . |