Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 2 | The Council accepted the report , amending one sentence to-read : ‘ For reasons which are apparent from the rest of this report the Visiting Party could not feel assured that the Director was fully and properly exercising his responsibility for the ‘ internal organisation and management and discipline of the Polytechnic ’ , in accordance with the Articles of Government' . |
| 3 | Making herself examine this thought , slowly and properly turning it around in her mind , recreating the scene which she could see so vividly of Jasper and Bert with the two I.R.A. , she had to admit that Jasper and Bert had made a bad impression . |
| 4 | Since the MOD housing stock is being sold off and other houses are being renovated and improved slowly , does the hon. Gentleman accept that the situation will not get better in the foreseeable future unless far greater urgency is given to the problem of properly housing and properly treating our service personnel and those whom we consider are no longer needed in our forces ? |
| 5 | A SCHOOLBOY was yesterday cleared of attempting to rape a policewoman and indecently assaulting her . |
| 6 | Pte Mark Turner , 21 , of 24 Airmobile Field Ambulance Brigade , Gaza Barracks , Catterick Garrison , is charged with a serious sex offence against a woman and indecently assaulting her in Scotton , near Catterick Garrison , on Friday . |
| 7 | A man who admitted twice raping his 15-year-old daughter and indecently assaulting her teenage friend was jailed for six years . |
| 8 | The man , who can not be named for legal reasons , admitted the charges falsely imprisoning and indecently assaulting his superior on August 9 last year . |
| 9 | ‘ And how 's your mother , Shirley ? ’ asked Mrs Harper , carefully and conspicuously laying her clove on the side of her plate ; taking the offensive . |
| 10 | Colleges do not admit students unless they seem capable of sustaining and successfully completing their college courses — and of entering fully into college life . |
| 11 | You will thus benefit from being clear in what you are aiming at and successfully achieving it more often than not |
| 12 | In Barat et Haimet the sexual innuendo of Barat approaching Marie 's bed in the dark , and successfully imitating her husband , Travers , is difficult to miss , and since we may know that bacon , the term generally used for the meat that is stolen and stolen back over and over again , can also be used of a girl 's thighs , there is a strong suggestion that the actions are really a sexual allegory : is it Marie that the three men are trying to appropriate ? |
| 13 | In more dramatic terms , the downgrading of domestic industries reflects the success of the transnational capitalist class in dragging them into the global economy and thereby transforming them , even in a rather minimal sense , into transnational industries . |
| 14 | A constant irritant was contained in the possibility of the king-duke 's Gascon subjects appealing to the court of France , and thereby removing themselves , if only temporarily , from the Plantagenet jurisdiction . |
| 15 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 16 | This would allow for liability where , for example , A and B conspired by unlawful means with the purpose of driving a competitor C out of the market and thereby monopolising it . |
| 17 | Only by being more actively involved in identifying issues , organizing action , and thereby helping themselves by fighting for their own rights , can older people hope to improve matters . |
| 18 | The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements . |
| 19 | The Judicature Acts of 1873–75 created a single Supreme Court of Judicature , comprising courts of both law and equity and thereby fusing what had previously been two separate systems . |
| 20 | However , the simultaneous availability of both calls and puts may have the effect of diminishing the depth of the market in both types of instruments , and thereby reducing their liquidity . |
| 21 | It has been shown to thrive on a diet of soluble uranium ions converting them into solid waste and thereby making them easier to remove . |
| 22 | This word ‘ gently ’ enhances the tenderness of the lines , while ‘ fields unsown ’ tells us that the man had to go and work in the fields , suggesting a strength and a vigour which he must have had and thereby making his death harder to accept . |
| 23 | Some employers will cease the opportunity as a chance to pay less and thereby making it even more difficult to make ends meet . |
| 24 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 25 | By lowering the height of the wall , and thereby enabling it to be built more thickly , it could be made more effective in both defence and counter-attack . |
| 26 | Under cover of trees , birds may be encouraged to range more freely , using the available land more fully , and thereby distributing their droppings more evenly . |
| 27 | In many instances it is perhaps better for the client to also send a letter ( copied to us ) to his other professional advisers informing them of our role and thereby introducing us . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it 's time we left , ’ she muttered , standing up and thereby giving him no opportunity to deliver another of his pointed snubs . |
| 29 | ‘ He was first rate ! ’ enthused Surkov , using the English adjective and thereby giving his compliment an ironic tinge . |
| 30 | They can also learn that there are lots of ways that people have of coping with these things , and thereby increasing their , you know , coping strategies — technical term — but their ways of handling things . |