Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , too , visit people in the middle of the night wearing black , yet I am greeted by shrieking , moaning , wailing and a-gnashing of teeth . |
| 2 | UNDERSTANDABLY there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the demise of West Malling ( West Malling Lament , October issue , et al ) but I am amazed that the people most affected by its loss made no attempt to save it from destruction . |
| 3 | CROSS A FAST TYPIST WITH A WINDOWS WORD PROCESSOR AND THE CHANCES ARE YOU 'LL SEE SOME WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH AS THE PROGRAM CHUGS ALONG A FEW PACES BEHIND THE USER . |
| 4 | a wide array of intermediate reforms … including anti-racist and race equality policies and programmes , ethnic record keeping and monitoring of jobs and services , establishment of race equality targets and timetables , appointment of specialist race relations staff across the authority departments , equal opportunity clauses in contracts and contract compliance policies , race training , positive action training , racial harassment procedures , and many others ( Butcher et al , 1990 : 124 ; cf. |
| 5 | ‘ publication of information relating to and the form , preparation keeping and certification of accounts ' |
| 6 | TRIMMING AND MOUNTING OF PEELS |
| 7 | At Middlesbrough the high spot is a rarely more than an ‘ eee aye oh , eee aye oh , eee aye oh ’ accompanied by much bobbing and swaying of arms . |
| 8 | Compound mitres are generally a nightmare for the d-i-yer , involving a lot of checking and re-checking of angles , often with an unsatisfactory result . |
| 9 | And blinked and looked again , for the felling of living Trees , the cutting and slicing and mutilating of Trees which had not died and dried and seasoned naturally , was one of the oldest and most strictly forbidden practices in Ireland . |
| 10 | The principal activities of the Company were the brewing , wholesaling and retailing of beers , wines and spirits , minerals and the ownership and management of public houses . |
| 11 | Blurring of professional roles occurs in other care delivery systems , but in a multidisciplinary team approach , overlapping or exchange of roles is planned and co-ordinated . |
| 12 | Karyotyping and sexing of gametes , embryos and fetuses and in situ hybridization to chromosomes |
| 13 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 14 | Where cover is arranged for ‘ All Risks ’ in respect of personal effects and clothing the policy will automatically cover the cost of replacing and fitting of locks of external doors of the dwelling following loss of keys by stealing for a limit of £250 . |
| 15 | The make-up , addressing and packaging of items addressed to HM Forces is important . |
| 16 | For investment research , sophisticated programs combine functionality and flexibility : high-quality graphics , cross-market searching and analysis of markets and securities against your own criteria . |
| 17 | Sometimes , these remain in the landscape or are incorporated into complex village plans ; elsewhere , they were abandoned in what seems to have been wholescale replanning and resiting of villages . |
| 18 | A typical example would be where the personnel manager specified the rules for disciplining and dismissal of employees . |
| 19 | Sometimes these informal meetings led parents to form a task force to help meet a particular school need — covering library books , repairing and repainting of toys , making simple equipment or assisting teachers with classroom chores . |
| 20 | Many of the suspicions which existed when the unit was set up , both about the political motivation for its creation and the likely effects of national monitoring on the curriculum , have been allayed ( if not entirely put to rest ) by the way in which the exercise has been carried out , by the sensitivities displayed by the monitoring teams , by the way in which groups of teachers up and down the country have been involved in the development , trialling and pre-testing of materials , and by the cool , impartial way in which the results have been presented . |
| 21 | With these points in mind it is hardly surprising that international traders seek the assistance and advice of bankers in the conduct , financing and settlement of transactions . |
| 22 | On 1 December , just three weeks before the disaster , a DIA DITSUM stated that ‘ reports of surveillance , targeting and planning of actions against US persons and facilities are continuous ’ . |
| 23 | When these investigations were concluded , the task forces briefed cabinet members on their responsibilities , suggested where funding cuts might be made and which bureaus might be closed while also advising on the hiring , firing and movement of personnel . |
| 24 | The dolphin received further protection in 1975 , when the District Magistrate of Sukkur made trapping or killing of dolphins illegal under a Criminal Procedure Code , which was given extensive publicity by drums , through radio and newspapers , and by placing posters in key locations . |
| 25 | The compressed sand , which functions as a fluid fulcrum , allows for a continuous shifting , tilting and rotating of planes and volumes on their axis . |
| 26 | There was much coming and going and shaking of hands before a lurid calendar of a glossy , tanned blonde in a jungle setting . |
| 27 | The same critic 's remark that Massine had captured the essence of Brahms ' fourth Symphony by ‘ repetitions , balancing and treatment of episodes ’ should be clarified . |
| 28 | To have included the yield , crazing and fracture of polymers would have required another three chapters to do them justice . |
| 29 | LIFESPAN allows stored information to be distributed across a number of offline storage media , and the offline facility provides the automatic control of offlining and recovery of modules . |
| 30 | If a lot of juggling and rearrangement of figures is necessary to transfer the information to the forms then it is worth considering adopting a new procedure for preparing the tax computation . |