Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This can affect almost every employee in virtually every type of business — not simply in factories and warehouses but in offices , shops and any working environment where handling a load presents a risk . |
| 2 | Radial circuits are sometimes used for socket outlets , where installing a ring circuit would waste cable . |
| 3 | In a Soviet Union where getting a film developed is not a simple matter Aleksandras Macijauskas has still managed to document the people , and lifestyle , of his native Lithuania . |
| 4 | In a Soviet Union where getting a film developed is not a simple matter , photography can not be the action of a consumer — of holiday , sports event or sight-seeing tour — but has to be , at the very least , a technical hobby ; at the best , an art form |
| 5 | I can see this in my own case , where losing a job or a home has in certain instances reopened old wounds . |
| 6 | There is no subject where attending a polytechnic increases the statistical likelihood of being unemployed by more than three or four times . |
| 7 | In England , by contrast , although there were some villages where having a widowed parent in the house ‘ was very much the ordinary , expected thing ’ at a certain stage in life , already by the late middle ages it was not the normal pattern . |
| 8 | Baldwin 's ( 1985 , p. 142 ) work on bringing up handicapped children indicates that grandparents often buy necessities such as food and clothing , and this can be vital to the finances of a household where having a handicapped child creates additional expense . |
| 9 | Significant compression has only developed comparatively recently ( the Alpine Fault was transtensile until the Pliocene ) but has generated rapid uplift with the highest peaks in the Southern Alps now exceeding an altitude of 3000 m . |
| 10 | Although using a road map , she managed to lose herself and so stopped to ask a young man the way . |
| 11 | Although using a tinted background may not be the traditional mode for watercolour , you can achieve unique colour effects and moods . |
| 12 | Other instances of racial prejudice can be found in the fact that the church used by the black community is used by the white men as a gambling den in the week although using a white church for such purposes would not be allowed , if even thought of . |
| 13 | This works even when recipients are away from their desks providing their PC is left on — ‘ far more efficient than sticking a Post-It note on their screen , ’ Richard smiled . |
| 14 | There are few simpler things than cooking a salmon . |
| 15 | The protesters withdrew , but were angered by news that the council had again refused to meet the deputation , although accepting an amendment that the next general purposes committee would receive it . |
| 16 | It 's better this than wasting a load of money that carpets we 're gon na bin anyway |
| 17 | Peter began by saying he had decided to use his spare time for research rather than editing a new series . |
| 18 | Is Labour still reflecting the ideals of the past rather than organizing a response to the problems of the future ? |
| 19 | Rather than proving an insoluble methodological problem , these contradictions are , in fact , a key finding in the research . |
| 20 | This is usually more valuable than generating an allowable loss for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 21 | However , rather than realising a £17m loss , Tootal 's figures show a £3.4m profit , with most of the difference written off earlier through the balance sheet . |
| 22 | As table 3 shows , the key legal services used by businesses tend to be the sort that are need-driven — litigation , commercial property and employee legislation — rather than reflecting a broader and continuous relationship . |
| 23 | Naïve , that 's what he was always calling me — that or juvenile , and you ca n't get more juvenile or naïve than allowing a man like Luke Denner to seduce you and then half hoping , almost believing in the fantasy that somehow you might actually mean something to him ! ’ |
| 24 | Rather than suggesting a different incentive system , which would enable the agency to maintain at least some timber harvesting in many of the forests on the list , the agency is deliberately limiting its options . |
| 25 | But the minister 's little joke reflects a suspicion among many in social services that going ‘ over there ’ is less about learning than enjoying a jaunt . |
| 26 | There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised . |
| 27 | It is a wonderful thing to see , and somehow gives you a greater thrill than seeing a conventional float slide under the surface . |
| 28 | There was nothing he enjoyed more than seeing a couple of his subordinates at each other 's throats . |
| 29 | It had been much more exciting than seeing a weka for the first time . |
| 30 | There are few sights more thrilling than seeing a Harrier jump jet being put through its paces . |