Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | During the coming year the Student Members of Council and the Student Liaison Officer will be working to promote involvement with and membership of the Institute by a number of methods including visiting schools of architecture throughout the country and maintaining contact with student representatives . |
| 32 | Of course , that does mean keeping up your daily reading of newspapers and magazines and maintaining contact with journalists . |
| 33 | ‘ By ‘ exercising de facto administrative control ’ or ‘ exercising effective administrative control , ’ I understand exercising all the functions of a sovereign government , in maintaining law and order , instituting and maintaining courts of justice , adopting or imposing laws regulating the relations of the inhabitants of the territory to one another and to the government . |
| 34 | Consequently , the sea waybill allows the ship to unload the bulk shipment immediately upon arrival , thereby reducing the time and cost of unloading and processing the cargo , and also lowering the costs of warehousing and maintaining goods in inventory . |
| 35 | Establishing and maintaining continuity of leadership during the change process ; |
| 36 | They issued a joint communiqué calling for continuing contacts between their military chiefs , exercise of restraint and maintaining channels of communication . |
| 37 | In recent years , the amount of work available for dockworkers has drastically declined because of the growing practice of loading and unloading goods in containers at depots outside the port areas . |
| 38 | On the eastern side of the central gang-way was an overhead crane that spanned two sets of tracks , used for loading and unloading vehicles from rail wagons . |
| 39 | For loading and unloading sacks of coal , and driving a lorry round the villages , that was £440 per annum more than a Senior Scientific Officer earned slaving for the defence of his country . |
| 40 | In addition to a wide choice of watersport centres on the island , with two excellent schools for waterskiing , windsurfing and paragliding run by Spiros and Nikos . |
| 41 | Five students and an adventure group leader stranded in force 10 winds , torrential rain and sub-zero temperatures were found huddling under a plastic bag and singing songs at Dartmoor , Devon . |
| 42 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 43 | A dozen men move back and forth , putting up lights in the living-room , shifting all the furniture round , and accepting trays of tea from Felicity in the kitchen . |
| 44 | ‘ She 's working , ’ Luke returned dismissively , and it was true , she realised , following his glance and seeing Cavell in conversation with a television reporter . |
| 45 | Chapters cover areas such as production , script writing , project design and using video for development education . |
| 46 | You see I think there 's a confusion between teaching computer science and computer studies and learning about computers and using micros in education . |
| 47 | Patients need to be cautioned about not missing meals and using alcohol with discretion when receiving sulphonylureas because of the risk of precipitating hypoglycaemia . |
| 48 | Opening the side window and thrusting a hand outside into the slipstream caused an ( almost ) balanced turn ; with two people , and on a calm day , I 'm convinced that the aeroplane could be flown hands and feet off , simply by leaning back and forth , and using hands as mini-ailerons . |
| 49 | That is what it is , a tool to help police officers carry out their difficult task of investigating and detecting crime and bringing offenders to justice . |
| 50 | The Divisional Court held that the delay in investigating and bringing proceedings against police officers involved in incidents arising out of an industrial dispute at Wapping in East London , amounted to an abuse of the process of the courts and the prosecutions were stopped . |
| 51 | The report noted that the industrialized countries could improve the lot of 1,100 million people living on an average per capita income equivalent to less than US$370 a year by increasing and targeting aid to countries committed to reducing poverty . |
| 52 | The goodwill and excellent relations that Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell have built up with the authorities in Gran Canaria seem to be in the process of being matched in St Lucia : more and better facilities were planned for Rodney Bay Marina , parties were organised and funded , and a special ARC committee to deal with such things as restoring extinguished navigation lights and easing participants through customs formalities was set up and presided over by the Prime Minister of St Lucia . |
| 53 | The original method of producing acrylic sheet , which involved casting a thickened and part-polymerized methyl methacrylate syrup in plate glass cells and completing polymerization by heating in an oven , was devised in the 1930s . |
| 54 | Three years ago Vasco da Gama and Botafogo left the Rio championship final claiming to have won the title and completing laps of honour . |
| 55 | To achieve this garden health , she underwrites some of the time-honoured techniques of manuring , weeding and rotating crops in combination with the everdeveloping new materials : fleecy translucent protective coverings , for instance , or improved strains of seeds . |
| 56 | Although dating and attributing coins to mints require different methods , the preliminary step is the same in both cases . |
| 57 | Thus , he set up his own windsurfing and surfing business at Whitesands which was to run for 2 years . |
| 58 | The Temiar transplant young petai ( Parkia speciosa , Leguminosae — grown for their edible seeds ) seedlings into their gardens after the rice harvest and are reliant on bamboo for many purposes : house building , blowpipes and cooking pots for example , as well as knives to cut the umbilical cord in childbirth . |
| 59 | Casabona , of no fixed address , denies kidnapping , attempted murder and administering poison with intent on March 20 last year . |
| 60 | Sanctions and embargoes throw the Soviet regime back upon what it does best : enforcing a state of siege , imposing military discipline on production and mobilising society along wartime lines . |