Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [v-ing] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that one is offering literature as a substitute religion or as providing a philosophy for life . |
| 2 | For me , it 's all part of the " Great Divide " — separating stylised news presentation at HTV from that bit of daily banter on the local pavement , or when having a half with one or two cronies at the White Lion , off the Common , or the Crown at nearby Hambrook . |
| 3 | Gandhi might well regard that as making a fetish of the principle of ahi sā . |
| 4 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 5 | Hughes and Cole had drivers report objects that ‘ attracted their attention ’ while actually driving a car and while watching a film of the same route . |
| 6 | They will initially interpret a rise in the demand for and price of their product as a rise in its relative price and as implying a fall in the real wage rate they must pay measured in terms of their product . |
| 7 | This is because , in the image of the world created by capitalism , the ability to supply capital is seen as enabling production to take place and as giving a wage to workers who would otherwise starve , while in fact it is really the capitalist who depends on the worker . |
| 8 | Senators opposed to the treaty denounced it as US colonialism and as representing a violation of the Constitution , most notably in respect of the ban on the presence of nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | National Assembly members had criticized the budget as " consumption orientated " and as constituting a withdrawal of the state from the economy , as spending on state administration , defence and various government agencies was reduced . |
| 10 | Her lips were satisfyingly full , tensed to one side as though expecting a blow at any moment . |
| 11 | Their first victim is themselves , their life taken from them well before — as though seeking a replacement from another freed — |
| 12 | The tremor of his head , which had begun only lately , had grown more distinct during this conversation ; starting low and shuttling up as though following a fly on a windowpane . |
| 13 | With her eyes tightly closed , she arched towards him , her arms , as though having a will of their own , went around his neck a little moan of submission escaping her . |
| 14 | Another way in which we sought to understand the nature of information structure in 5 was by saying that written discourse with a low degree of reciprocity proceeds as though answering a series of ‘ ghost ’ questions . |