Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice we hear is , as usual for the period right up to 1910 , an external voice : women are a group more spoken about than speaking , if we are to believe the written records . |
| 2 | ‘ People have too many other things to be worrying about than remembering a revolution that did not achieve very much . ’ |
| 3 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 4 | I think that 's a good example of where defining requirements is , is quite difficult . |
| 5 | erm erm concentration put on of where pumping into us , there came back a further report on how one would win that and as I remember it , the professional advise was we should have twenty but Charles and his I nearly said men but progress erm . |
| 6 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 7 | Whilst this decision has been criticised as a " narrow " interpretation of the law ( ibid ) , our examination of the nature of casual working and the characteristics of the casual labour force in the hotels and catering sector raises the question of whether according casual workers employee status , and thus bringing them within the coverage of employment protection legislation , would be of any great relevance . |
| 8 | Mick Hayes believes the only way to get to the bottom of whether living next to power cables can damage your health is a full-scale Government inquiry . |
| 9 | There has not , however , been adequate assessment of whether improving the oxygen saturation reduces the incidence of arrhythmias . |
| 10 | More central to the concerns of this book is the question of whether testing programmes are a suitable procedure for accountability . |
| 11 | The band had a policy of not turning down any gig offer , regardless of whether playing it would be profitable . |
| 12 | There was some fretting over the question of whether trading one parent for another rather than going public would put Unix right back where it was when the Open Software Foundation was formed . |
| 13 | Such pressures can lead to lack of environmental awareness or at least an understandable questioning of whether spending time or money or both on improving classroom ecology justifies the effort involved . |
| 14 | Model styles can vary considerably , but there are certain general points to be conscious of when constructing them , ie : |
| 15 | What is of immediate importance is the realisation , often lost sight of when discussing procedure , that adjudication is but one form of decision-making . |
| 16 | Costs for travel outside Edinburgh should also be taken account of when drawing up a budget . |
| 17 | Costs for travel outside Edinburgh should also be taken account of when drawing up a budget . |
| 18 | This , and not a fear of exaggeration , is the hazard we have to be aware of when interpreting the remarks of the people of St Ann 's about these housing conditions . |
| 19 | The horse needs to help the rider to a greater extent over these fences and they must be made careful note of when walking the course . |
| 20 | It is this lack of control which we have to think of when arguing on the merits of strengthening participatory democracy to achieve active citizenship . |
| 21 | The only other thing you have to be wary of when playing bream is their ability , whether intentional or otherwise , to glide in an arc on the end of your line rather like a kite in a strong wind . |
| 22 | That 's because large events involve extra considerations you never dreamed of when doing a small conference . |
| 23 | Cells in different parts of the embryo can be thought of as developing along quite different pathways , diverging more and more in character . |
| 24 | Its part is written in the treble clef but by a curious quirk of transposition gives the actual notes sounded if the bass clef is thought of as displacing the treble . |
| 25 | The problem can be thought of as maximizing consumer surplus ( here total surplus minus resource costs ) arising from the set of products , subject to the breakeven constraint , i.e. choose y 1 to y n to maximize : subject to unc where R(Y) is the revenue accruing from sales of all the products and x is a variable of integration . |
| 26 | There are certain academic precedents , particularly the uncontroversial establishment in a number of universities of degrees in drama , which do work previously thought of as belonging to an English degree . |
| 27 | For we should have to be able to redescribe both the actions we currently regard as rational , and those we think of as requiring a reactive response , so as to overcome the contrast between them . |
| 28 | At this point in the theory , the Nirvana principle is conceived of as deriving its energy from the death instincts , and the pleasure principle serves these too sometimes , and therefore it loses its former primacy in the unconscious life of man . |
| 29 | The Gothic side of Wordsworth is usually played down , and he is thought of as reacting against the overstimulation of the imagination which medieval fantasy so frequently provided . |
| 30 | Each subtractive primary can be thought of as taking away a component from white ; thus yellow is , ‘ minus blue ’ and magenta is ‘ minus green ’ so a mixture of yellow and magenta inks will produce white minus blue minus green — in other words , red . |