Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] and [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1696 he was arrested for signing and circulating an appeal for charitable contributions to relieve the extruded clergy . |
| 2 | Just as there are many ways of organizing and running an effective school , so there are many ways of running an LEA . |
| 3 | The reason given for this is that the costs of installing and maintaining an accounting information system that computes individual cost centre rates is complex and expensive . |
| 4 | An important feature of contemporary society is the social desirability of creating and maintaining an independent household . |
| 5 | Then , as students , you may be familiar with " the examination dream " — of sitting and taking an examination or a test which you 've already taken and passed . |
| 6 | The theatre was given its own legal status in the Theatres Act 1968 , but the anomalous position of the cinema was not revealed until 1975 , when the President and Secretary of the BBFC were charged with aiding and abetting an indecent exhibition , namely the showing by Classic Cinemas Ltd of the Swedish sex-education film Language of Love . |
| 7 | Thus , if an individual deals on behalf of his company , it is possible that a company could be charged with aiding and abetting an offence under the legislation , or with conspiracy to commit an offence under the legislation . |
| 8 | A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink . |
| 9 | These developments hold great promise for severely disabled people who , although dependent on a machine , can have a feeling of relative independence ; their range of control in communicating and getting an appropriate response is increased and they are less dependent on people to carry out a number of everyday living activities . |
| 10 | At the very least TECs have a vital role in researching and developing an operating model for the creation of local education strategies which could bring some strategic order to an otherwise rapidly fragmenting school system . |
| 11 | Second , the state must also legitimise its role in preserving and reproducing an exploitative and inegalitarian system of production through the provision of welfare benefits . |
| 12 | In the most obvious sense the establishment of special facilities for young workers emphasized their distinctiveness and their separateness ; it also suggested that by virtue of their ignorance and incompetence they needed to rely upon ‘ professionals ’ for assistance in choosing and finding an occupation . |
| 13 | Its almost miraculous effectiveness in controlling and reversing an otherwise lethal bacterial infection in mice was demonstrated in Oxford in the 1940s . |
| 14 | The parody of deviant sex , far from presupposing and ratifying an original natural sexuality , exposes it as a fiction . |
| 15 | The Bill does nothing to increase the powers of the courts if order should break down inside a prison , although it touches in a new way on some of the matters relating to aiding and abetting an escape outside a prison . |
| 16 | Lisburn 's Anne Terek won the ladies ' section from Avril Magee ( Annadale Striders ) with new mum Ursula McGloin making a return to racing and finishing an excellent third . |
| 17 | Er a bill from for tracing and disconnecting an unused underground cable . |
| 18 | In the Terrapin case the judge held that because all the details relating to the construction of a particular type of portable building could be ascertained by dismantling and measuring an example of it , the possessor of confidential drawings and other information still had a head start . |