Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vertical columns of Table 10.2 represent the department providing the resources and the horizontal rows the projects and activities using them . |
| 2 | Its growth , therefore , does not come about by territorial gains , but by individuals and groups submitting their wills to that of their Heavenly King . |
| 3 | This was busy with carts and pack-horses making their way into Edinburgh , bringing in the products from both port and countryside to be sold at the markets . |
| 4 | The ribbed vault is a lighter construction and so does not place the same enormous stress upon the walls and arcades supporting it . |
| 5 | But he said it was a temporary blip arising from greater throughput of cases in the civil courts ; increased efficiency at the Scottish Legal Aid Board and solicitors submitting their accounts more speedily because of the recession . |
| 6 | Of course it is good to see artists at work and artists discussing their work on TV , but so many of the programmes have been disappointing . |
| 7 | They produced tables of figures , diagrams and graphs illustrating their measurements and recording their findings . |
| 8 | The piazza is huge , and roads meeting there are wide and not easy to cross ; you need one eye on the traffic , one on the trams and another on the tramlines to make sure they do not send you sprawling . |
| 9 | Er I mean I do n't think you want to spend hours and hours and hours doing it , but but , but |
| 10 | ( iii ) Suppose I do not understand Chinese , but , solely on the basis of the shapes of the letters , and rules connecting them merely as shapes , do the right things . |
| 11 | and rules touching their hair and flesh . |
| 12 | Japanese schools are very disciplinarian , with corporal punishment accepted , and rules regulating everything from hairstyle to how to lace one 's shoes . |
| 13 | In Europe , trams were seen as ‘ completely classless ’ , with everyone from bank managers and labourers using them . |
| 14 | ) A regularity audit which verifies that expenditure has been incurred on approved services and in accordance with statutory and other regulations and authorities governing them ( sometimes called the ‘ Compliance Audit ’ ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I would like to see players and coaches making it their priority . |
| 16 | The laibon goes off for a moment and returns wearing his cloak as the old lady produces some stools . |
| 17 | Indeed , the Aboriginal communities have been so disenfranchised in the past that giving them a say in decisions and policies affecting them is seen as a key element in improving their health . |
| 18 | Lying down with knees bent , raise the elbows , head and shoulders bringing your chin as close to your chest as possible . |
| 19 | She stood to dry his shoulders and his hair , her body brushing against his , her breasts and thighs touching him lightly as she moved about him . |
| 20 | Then she lowers the paper cylinder and stands watching me again . |
| 21 | The big white creaks upright and stands flexing his hands . |
| 22 | The laws , regulations , and guidelines governing them |
| 23 | ‘ The city is too easily stereotyped as a bleak and industrial wasteland full of flat-capped frustrated poets and musos consoling themselves with endless amounts of ale . |
| 24 | He believes the small businessman invests his whole life in a company and risks losing it all . |
| 25 | On the other , we have psychologists , ethologists and sociobiologists offering their understanding of individual and collective behaviour . |
| 26 | But the possibility of radical feminism recognising biological and instinctive bases of male violence is spoilt by the early ethologists and sociobiologists overstating their case . |
| 27 | Cos the mortgages and that but there 's a lot of them , and kids causing it , and Christmas was coming well you know we just , that 's when they helped us at Christmas was really fantastic yes , true I never thought anything really out of this world how the how the people helped We got toys and everything for the kids ' Christmas , everything you could think of . |
| 28 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 29 | There had been secrets , fears , dangers and delusions filling her every thought . |
| 30 | SUBTERFUGE Newspapers and journalists serving them should use straightforward means to obtain information or pictures . |