Example sentences of "[adj] of [v-ing] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentators are fond of discovering and praising a guidebook clarity in the novel . |
| 2 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 3 | In 1948 he was found guilty of breaking and entering . |
| 4 | William Tidbury : Not guilty of the murder of Inspector Drewitt or PC Shorter , but guilty of aiding and abetting others in both cases . |
| 5 | At Carlisle Crown Court an arms dealer Stephen Shepkey has been jailed for life after being found guilty of aiding and abetting the murder of an accountant , David Wilson . |
| 6 | Leakey said ‘ there is no question that companies are guilty of promoting and exporting these [ dangerous ] chemicals into developing countries . |
| 7 | A jury at the High Court in Glasgow had found George Harris , 21 , guilty of stabbing and attempting to murder John Brown , 30 . |
| 8 | But Michael Quigg was sentenced to eight years in jail after being found guilty of stabbing and attempting to murder Angus McMaster in Paisley on May 16 last year , and carrying a knife . |
| 9 | JOHAN TUMBA , the Swedish professional found guilty of cheating and banned for 10 years in January , had the sentence reduced to three years on appeal yesterday . |
| 10 | Employers are sometimes guilty of blurring or confusing the two . |
| 11 | Karelius coped by employing a technique he had first developed at university and perfected in the army : that of chewing and swallowing whilst managing to divorce his mind completely from the organs of taste . |
| 12 | With an in-house database , the cost to the organization can be assessed as capital and ongoing , a major component being that of creating and maintaining the database . |
| 13 | In Italy , as elsewhere , the modern industrial strategy has been that of fragmenting and dispersing labour . |
| 14 | Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots . |
| 15 | One of these is that of formulating and constituting new forms of relation appropriate to this expanding reproduction . |
| 16 | Parents in this dilemma might think carefully about being more discriminating with their words of approval and with their reflex action to requests — that of giving and giving and giving . |
| 17 | Ianthe always hurried past the vet 's house , fearful of seeing or hearing something dreadful . |
| 18 | Sick and tired of stopping and starting , of going up banks only to go down them again , of being whacked in the face by the branches of trees that the dogs ran under , and of not knowing where we were going or why . |
| 19 | I see no solution for Scotland short of seeking and gaining the status of a member state within the European Community . |
| 20 | Soon Berlin will become overpopulated by images , like New York and Paris , and its images will have lost their powers , save those of reflecting and recalling one another . " |
| 21 | So family life was always full , full of coming and going , full of laughter , full of activity . |
| 22 | As he said in The Favourite Game : ‘ Seven to 11 is a huge chunk of life , full of dulling and forgetting , ’ though perhaps some of the ‘ forgetting ’ was deliberate . |
| 23 | It had all gone — the thin veneer of self-confidence , the determination that she had been so proud of acquiring and nurturing since that first audition in Vienna . |
| 24 | This posits that the company or any group of individuals acting together for a common purpose creates a living organism , or a real person , capable of willing and acting through the people who are its organs just as a natural person wills and acts through their brain , mouth and hands . |
| 25 | Ideal notes take on the character of architecture — that is , they comprise a well-defined structure ; they are capable of supporting and containing the burden to be later placed on them ; and they are designed to last . |
| 26 | Even former dissidents jailed under Mr Shevardnadze 's rule in the early 1980s recognise that his public stature makes him uniquely capable of uniting and stabilising Georgian society . |
| 27 | Male deer and some antelopes are also capable of collecting and controlling sizable numbers of females in the breeding season , but whenever the harem becomes too massive the harem-masters lose control and small splinter-groups of females are stolen by less dominant males in the vicinity . |
| 28 | As the Chairman , Pat Retief in his Annual Chairman 's Review says , ‘ we must continue to be a profitable company if we are to be a good employer in the fullest sense , capable of maintaining and enhancing our portfolio of assets and maximising the development of the Group 's human resources . |
| 29 | The defendants argued that the council 's action for libel against them , as set out in the statement of claim , is not capable of promoting or protecting the interests of the inhabitants of Derbyshire . |
| 30 | The best way to prevent such damage occurring is to float a piece of wood or a child 's rubber ball on the water , so that the ice exerts pressure against an object capable of expanding and contracting . |