Example sentences of "and the [noun] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is plenty of evidence in the Review that taking a professional stance of this kind helped sustain the discursive architecture of English studies in the interwar period , especially in taking the disputative and judgemental stance of Parliament and the Law and borrowing the language from those discourses . |
| 2 | There is no other way of anticipating the potential and the problems or getting to know the local people you will need to solve them . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it is obvious that by limiting himself to his own observations in a remote valley , he would soon exhaust his material : he therefore drew on Dorothy 's Journals and upon other people 's experiences , for example in Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper ( observed by Wilkinson who ‘ Passed a female who was reaping alone ’ ) , and The Kitten and Falling Leaves ( rough draft by Coleridge printed in Notebooks , vol. i , 1813 ) . |
| 4 | This is not entirely unconnected to another feature of the economies of many Third World countries that has become of great salience in recent years , namely their foreign debt and the eff–ct that servicing that debt , particularly in times of rising and unpredictable interest rates , has on economic and social planning . |
| 5 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 6 | got talking about Sun readers , there was this girl and she , she was stood on this podium and she , she 's talking to The Express and The Guardian and going like that and their taking photographs of her and then you sort of pan round , the camera pans round and you 've got The Star and the Sun going like that fucking its really funny , The Sun and The Star in it |
| 7 | Table 2.1 gives additional information about these two broad industrial areas , showing that it is in the retail trade and the hotels and catering industry in the first of these , and public administration , education , medical services , " other services to the public " , recreational and cultural services and personal services in the second , where the proportion of temporary workers is greatest and/or where an important share of the temporary workforce is to be found . |
| 8 | The bristles work by laying down flat in the direction of travel , so reducing friction between your skis and the surface and allowing the skis to slide . |
| 9 | The wife and mother who goes out of the home to earn a wage , to escape being totally dependent on a man , being isolated in the home , and the penny-pinching that trying to make one wage feed the family involves , takes a second job . |
| 10 | Her soft hands were so unaccustomed to such hard work that it became — temporarily , Miss Mates said , until they hardened — difficult for her to help with the fine sewing , and the darning and repairing needed in the little house . |
| 11 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |
| 12 | He sacrifices four lambs at the base of the li ga , then takes two inside and kills them by slitting open the throat and the chest and cutting off one of the forelegs at the shoulder , so the heart can be taken out , still pumping , and offered to the god on a plate on the dhāmi 's raised seat . |
| 13 | First , Lord Grade sold ATV to the Australian financier Robert Holmes à Court ; second , the 49 per cent of ‘ Midlands ’ shares were bought by D C Thomson ( who thus made up for losing Southern ) , the betting company Ladbrokes and the printing and publishing interests of Robert Maxwell . |
| 14 | The physical changes to diet pellets brought about by autoclaving depends both on the constitution of the diet and the sterilizing and drying cycle of the autoclave . |
| 15 | He paused irresolutely , not scrunching , as the others were beginning to , across the two sets of rails between our train and the station but meandering at an angle forward in the direction of the engine . |
| 16 | It is easiest to think of the sound source as motionless and the listener as moving . |
| 17 | It is true that the acceptance of computing is still greater in research rather than teaching , but it must be said that the latter holds great potential , some of which , hopefully , will be unleashed through the injection of much-needed resources via schemes such as the Computers in Teaching Initiative ( CTI ) and the Teaching and Learning Training Project ( TLTP ) . |
| 18 | The blaze of lights in the evening was part of it , and the singing and shivering the rails made . |
| 19 | Divine service is legally a public performance , and the singing and playing of music in church constitute a ‘ qualifying performance ’ . |
| 20 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 21 | Very few ferreters could produce 100 purse nets and the positioning and working of that number would be far too time-consuming in relation to the return from it . |
| 22 | At this point in the book , we feel a friction growing up between Piggy and the leaders because having established democracy using the shell , the leaders then destroy it again , denying Piggy a chance to speak . |
| 23 | ( 10 ) Throughout Stages 1 and 2 , DCSLs may be involved in advising schools , librarians , or library committees on practical matters , from suggesting trends in library layout ( for schools relocating or refurbishing their libraries in anticipation of , or as a result of , receiving a project grant ) to advising on precise requirements of order forms , the need to " weed " old stock to make space for the new acquisitions , and the desirability or updating or devising a new catalogue . |
| 24 | In Kendal prosperous merchants and clothiers had established a middle class , and the Kendal yards , with the merchant 's house , the workers ' cottages , and the spinning and weaving lofts all packed together under close supervision opened up new conditions . |
| 25 | The weavers ' yard close by has been a fine example of the early wool trade , with the workers ' cottages down one side and the spinning and weaving loft up a wooden stair on the other . |
| 26 | Most of the Committee were at the prize-giving and the cheese and winetasting which followed . |
| 27 | Gwendolen 's first glimpse of Ryelands is also a picture — a ‘ white house … with a hanging wood for a background , and the rising and sinking balustrade of a terrace in front ’ — but this graceful place , despite the warmth and light inside it , is the context in which she faces the chilling implications of ‘ getting her choice ’ . |
| 28 | Various combinations of topical and non-absorbable antimicrobial agents have been used to reduce relative numbers of Gram negative bacilli and yeasts cultured from faeces and the oropharynx while maintaining normal anaerobic flora . |
| 29 | The Second Great Seal of Richard I , which shows him seated between the Moon and the Sun and bearing the symbols of his sovereignty . |
| 30 | The authority and the school have wide discretion as to how the records should be compiled , given the two major purposes of providing basic data on a pupil 's progress for other teachers and the parents and providing evidence to support the teacher 's assessment of the pupil 's level of attainment . |