Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are a unique human being endowed with your own unique wisdom , understanding and experience which can be put to good use to formulate your goals . |
| 2 | Every teacher who makes excessive sacrifices in the time and attention needed for his own personal growth to the demands of the organisation within which he works or to its students is ultimately denying to that organisation and those students the very knowledge , understanding and skill which it is his professional responsibility to offer . |
| 3 | 1.2 Our terms of reference define attainment targets as : ‘ clear objectives for the knowledge , skills , understanding and aptitudes which pupils of different abilities and maturity should be expected to have acquired at or near certain ages ’ and programmes of study as : ‘ describing the essential content which needs to be covered to enable pupils to reach or surpass the attainment targets ’ . |
| 4 | The Working Group 's terms of reference defined attainment targets as ‘ clear objectives for the knowledge , skills , understanding and aptitudes which pupils of different abilities and maturity should be expected to have acquired at or near certain ages ’ . |
| 5 | Do n't encourage this , but rather help him by summarising and re-phrasing his contribution in a gentle and inoffensive way . |
| 6 | His interests include outdoor activities of fishing , climbing and walking which first introduced him to the area and DIY and cookery . |
| 7 | Much of the bureaucracy 's time was absorbed in checking and double-checking its own work . |
| 8 | In revising and proof-reading they should be shown how to check the spelling of difficult words in a dictionary . |
| 9 | If the organisation appoints committees to deal with aspects of planning , policy forming and co-ordination there needs to be clear lines of communication so that everyone involved knows the person to whom the committee reports . |
| 10 | This is used for minor acts of disorder such as shouting and swearing which is likely to cause alarm or distress , displaying abusive or insulting slogans or throwing over dustbins and banking on doors in the common parts of blocks of flats . |
| 11 | The effect of disciplining and training myself morally is to refine my ch'i to a perfect transparency ; then the li show through . |
| 12 | The medium trance is the best one for any treatment requiring regression , as it will be possible for the patient to relive past experiences on a more realistic level , whether seeing and hearing what takes place or being able to describe it as a spectator . |
| 13 | This is thanks to handling and power which , to my mind , would have posed a greater threat to the Honda NSX 's title of best-handling car than any Mazda RX-7 . |
| 14 | This species , the most important lungworm of sheep and goats , is commonly associated with a chronic syndrome of coughing and unthriftiness which usually affects lambs and kids . |
| 15 | The most common signs are coughing and unthriftiness which , in endemic areas , is usually confined to young animals . |
| 16 | While there are relatively few chemicals usable for cleaning and disinfection there are many , probably thousands , of chemical products . |
| 17 | Sometimes when the glass has been removed for cleaning and restoration it may have been reassembled back-to-front . |
| 18 | When I heard about the business of measuring and weighing I realised that all the care and effort I had put into keeping my secret had probably been a complete waste of time . |
| 19 | No one who has visited a Greek tax office in a provincial town , and seen rows of clerks thumbing and date-stamping their way through piles of dusty paper , can feel confident that a new broom is truly on the way . |
| 20 | Horses indicate quite clearly that they do not like someone , or another animal , by narrowing and pulling-up their nostrils so that wrinkles form above them . |
| 21 | The term " data management system " is used to cover a wide range of different systems , but all provide a method for structuring data and facilities for adding , changing , deleting and reporting which are separated from the data . |
| 22 | The chapters fall into four sections : in Teaching and Learning we review the conflicts between various demands on educational institutions , conflicts that have become more clearly defined in recent years . |
| 23 | Lincoln had a ‘ dream start ’ , and although I was closing and closing I could n't make it . |
| 24 | Emerging from the shower ten minutes later , skin glowing and towelling her damp hair , she was galled to discover that she was no longer tired and , worse , that her stomach was actually rumbling with hunger . |
| 25 | I think the important thing to remember there is that erm we regard ourselves as having and people who work in universities regard themselves as having a special obligation and indeed to use their own special skills in order indeed to define the needs of society in their own special field and then to do what they can to satisfy . |
| 26 | Therefore I want to beg all your forgiveness for every injustice , suffering and humiliation which you , on the Czech side suffered at our hands ’ . |
| 27 | : , who on seeing Canova 's ‘ Paris ’ in Florence in 1813 , exaggerated the idea of the ‘ creative ’ and sexual role of the sculptor 's touch : ‘ The chisel is the last tool that comes to mind , for if statues could be made by caressing marble rather than by roughly cutting and chipping I would say that this one has been formed by wearing down the surrounding marble by dint of kisses and caresses ’ . |
| 28 | But neither man could entirely ignore North 's fevered memoranda , insisting that without the awful procession of weapons shipments the hostages would die ; and both men , while they were in office , had to go each morning to a president who would ask them what they were doing and importune them to try harder . |
| 29 | There is here a useful area of cross-fertilisation between reading and writing which should be greatly helpful to pupils as writers . |
| 30 | Around Sarajevo there is always an atmosphere : the voice of bullets , shelling and mortars which has now become an atmosphere of ordinary life . ’ |