Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [noun sg] of [noun] " 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 | Actual workers would only be recruited once there were clients who needed care , but the development officers began to make contact with potential sources of support worker recruitment , for example , churches and church groups , women 's groups ( Women 's Institute , Mother 's Union , Young Wives ) , tenants ' associations , community centres ; they gave talks to meetings of these groups when possible , partly in order to fulfil another of their roles : to increase general awareness , understanding and tolerance of dementia , but also to reach possible support workers . |
| 5 | The paper argues that ‘ on grounds of environmental cost , loss of hosing and expense of construction , road building in urban areas is not an acceptable solution to traffic congestion ’ . |
| 6 | An appeal has been launched for government officials to improve their understanding of the importance of preserving nature , and to enforce local restrictions on the poaching , purchasing and smuggling of wildlife . |
| 7 | The visual conditions that cause blurring and distortion of sight are also likely to result in the reduction of clear distance vision . |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | ‘ publication of information relating to and the form , preparation keeping and certification of accounts ' |
| 10 | Dolls ' houses , bungalows , house and roof units , farm houses , barns , garages , shops and airports all lead to imaginative play , which in turn leads towards ideas of sorting , matching and estimation of size . |
| 11 | The machining capacity at Wolverton was heavily engaged in the early days of production , not only on its own work , but in assisting to relieve bottle neck in other firms ' production and much light and heavy machining was undertaken , as was Iron and Brass founding and forging of gun parts for ordnance factories . |
| 12 | TRIMMING AND MOUNTING OF PEELS |
| 13 | There 's nothing for it but to clamber , wheezing and bursting of heart , up the steep steps ( 300 and more ) of one of the deepest shafts of the Underground to air and freedom . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There were only two significant differences between the vitamin A and placebo groups in the mean daily prevalence of the symptoms/conditions investigated at the weekly visits in the Health Study ( table 1 ) — prevalence of vomiting and refusal of food or breastmilk . |
| 19 | We also found no effect on reported morbidity , though there was a suggestion that the prevalence of vomiting and refusal of food or breastmilk , both of which tend to be associated with severe episodes of illness , were lower in the supplemented children . |
| 20 | The balance between the intensity of smoothing and loss of detail can only be worked out by trial and error ; the effect of the 7 x 5 moving average filter on the visual appearance of Figure 5.17(a) is sufficient to produce a more usable product which reveals the location and shape of the offshore sandbanks and the disposition of the suspended sediment plumes from the rivers discharging into The Wash . |
| 21 | Karyotyping and sexing of gametes , embryos and fetuses and in situ hybridization to chromosomes |
| 22 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The make-up , addressing and packaging of items addressed to HM Forces is important . |
| 25 | Stage 2 is the selection , ordering and acquisition of book and non-book material purchased through the project grant , up to and including the utilisation of those resources by the children themselves . |
| 26 | Illegal practices include smuggling , transfer pricing , under valuing and misclassification of species . |
| 27 | In some areas , particularly training and point of sale , it looks as if DVI applications may compete head to head with interactive videodisc . |
| 28 | Depending upon the particular system required , a balance must be found between the main variables of speed of searching and amount of memory used , especially for a larger vocabulary ( approximately 60,000 to 70,000 words ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | O'Connor and Brown ( 1984 ) suggested that one explanation may be that Henderson did not differentiate between the actual support provided in terms of confiding and frequency of contact and the attachment felt for the person named . |