Example sentences of "and [v-ing] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 2 | The language of her faith and preaching is other-worldly , yet she is deeply concerned with social issues and the roots of crime and poverty . |
| 3 | Midnight 's arm was like a bar of iron and all her kicking and struggling was useless . |
| 4 | A software development environment and multiprocessing are extra . |
| 5 | A software development environment and multiprocessing are extra . |
| 6 | And dying is mean |
| 7 | The first chart is an ideal courtship , Physical intimacy and cost are low , while communication and blending are high . |
| 8 | Artists of the stature of Sendak and Keeping are visual explorers , never satisfied merely to repeat performances , even though those performances are outstanding . |
| 9 | Beginning , Resourcing , Believing and Remembering are four stages in the ‘ States of Man ’ , the imaginative brief set for the 1991 Smirnoff UK Fashion Awards which take place in June as part of a week of college fashion shows . |
| 10 | To bake a cake with an even , smooth finish , correct lining and greasing is important . |
| 11 | It is distinct from non-data-ink , which can be erased without loss of information : gridlines and hatching are good examples . |
| 12 | Show some ability to recognise when planning , drafting , redrafting and revising are appropriate and to carry out these processes either on paper or on a computer screen . |
| 13 | First it seems that personal preference and liking is important , certainly to a much greater extent than in relationships between parents and children . |
| 14 | The common ground between acting and caricaturing is obvious : both seek to convey personality in a way that prompts total recognition . |
| 15 | Poverty and overcrowding are characteristic of the greater part of the Canning Town and Silvertown areas , which make up what is perhaps the largest part of unbroken depression in East London . |
| 16 | Manualists , by contrast , believe that signing and fingerspelling are essential tools in the learning process and that lipreading and speech are , in any case , beyond the capacity of the majority of deaf and dumb children . |
| 17 | Oralists believe that every deaf child of normal intelligence can learn lipreading and speech , and that signing and fingerspelling are harmful to a child 's learning process . |
| 18 | Weaving , crib-biting , biting ( general vice ) and kicking are typical vices . |
| 19 | None of this is to suggest that the relationship between mercantile concerns and lawmaking is linear . |
| 20 | Graham ( whose chapter on budgeting and allocating is essential reading ) reports a survey of 23 university libraries he carried out in 1985 , in which 14 of the library grants covered only non-staffing costs ( books , periodicals , binding and operational money ) , whilst the other nine included staffing , though usually with severe limitations on virement between staffing and other sub-heads . |
| 21 | Moving something is a reversible operation , but mixing , cutting and breaking are irreversible . |
| 22 | Updating and deleting are straightforward . |
| 23 | Adding and subtracting are easier operations than multiplying and dividing . |
| 24 | Powers of acceleration and braking are remarkable , the latter far greater than any car . |
| 25 | The four skills of reading , writing , listening and speaking are well-practised in a wide variety of tasks , including scanning , summarizing , categorizing , building definitions , and comprehension . |
| 26 | Life 's a bit miserable sometimes and moving is fun . |
| 27 | Seeing and observing are two completely different things . |
| 28 | Windsurfing and waterskiing are available , and there is tennis on the public court . |
| 29 | Bathing and waterskiing are available a few minutes walk away . |
| 30 | Watersports abound , and instruction in sailing , windsurfing and waterskiing is available . |