Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 2 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 3 | The wearing of breathing apparatus , although necessary , was known to be risky ; the trapped men were not accustomed to the equipment and anyone who has used it knows how alarming and claustrophobic the experience can be ; the effect can be a compelling desire to rip off the apparatus and if one of the trapped miners was to do so while passing through the gas in Bank mine , death would be almost instantaneous . |
| 4 | If Bourke recorded some of these conversations with Blake in October he would have had to take a battery-operated audio recorder with him across the common , as well as the two-way radio , and link the two together while lying in the grass talking to Blake . |
| 5 | Then she thought of the Brownie Promise and the Brownie Law and the Brownie Motto , all of which she knew by heart and had often said aloud when riding along the country lanes , so that she would be able to say them if the wonderful day should come for her to join a Brownie Pack . |
| 6 | Traditional chemical analysis and the measurement of specific gravity are not much used nowadays , as the former is destructive of the object and the latter is useful only when dealing with an alloy of two metals of greatly differing specific gravities ; in effect this restricts its utility to alloys made of gold and one other metal . |
| 7 | During a bright moon , headlights were kept off — otherwise they remained on only when driving on the road alone . |
| 8 | If , instead of acting physically , the adult names the object — ‘ dolly ’ — the child is likely to interpret the vocalisation not only as referring to the object , but as a description of the ‘ doll ’ as an entity ( Ninio and Bruner 1978 ) . |
| 9 | certain words or acts can , as a matter of law , be interpreted only as amounting to a dismissal or resignation ; |
| 10 | ‘ I like to lay in the paint with a knife and draw into the wet paint with a brush , especially when working on a portrait , ’ Kyffin Williams told Julian Halsby in this special interview for The Artist |
| 11 | I like to lay in the paint with a knife and draw into the wet paint with a brush , especially when working on a portrait . |
| 12 | These are just the job if you need to carry a rechargeable drill around with you , especially when working from a ladder or steps . |
| 13 | They too have children , with similar needs , but they are allocated much less because , rather than staying on the dole , their parents wished to return to college and get qualifications to get them back into work . |
| 14 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 15 | I do not know what the hon. Gentleman means , but I regret that , as ever — and typically of Labour Members — the hon. Gentleman seems to glory in gloom and despondency in identifying the more negative aspects of things , rather than looking at the positive . |
| 16 | Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms . |
| 17 | ‘ She wanted to be doing things like playing on her home computer rather than looking after the rest of the family . |
| 18 | Rather than looking in a magazine and buying something that that erm |
| 19 | And those who take part in groups have to show a parallel commitment to working within the spirit of the process ; putting as much energy into listening as in talking , staying on task , collaborating rather than competing in the pursuit of common objectives . |
| 20 | ‘ So why are you not over ‘ tere , bein' some kind of movie star , rather than sittin' in a pub in Santry , in the middle of autumn ta ’ feels like winter ? ’ |
| 21 | If resources are to be used to increase pensions , should they not be used to target those in greatest need , rather than spreading across the board and benefiting both rich and poor ? |
| 22 | All right then — ’ he edged closer so that he was whispering rather than shouting over the juke-box ‘ — here 's the nastiest rumour I 've ever heard about Steenie — really nasty rumour . |
| 23 | If you are a well-known personality , attractive looking and charming , you will find your task much easier : people tend to respond to such individuals rather than reacting to the content of their message . |
| 24 | Note that the inflection occurring with the transposed lexical item has remained in its grammatically correct position , rather than moving with the base item to which it would normally have been attached . |
| 25 | This leaves the school in the weak position of reacting to opinion rather than acting as an opinion former . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean the way he walked out right through the wall rather than bothering with the doorway , chief ? ’ |
| 27 | Let him start talking up our achievements rather than pointing to an agenda which his party has already signed up to which would destroy millions of jobs through statutory works councils , statutory minimum wage and statutory compulsory working week . |
| 28 | This sort of evidence leads me to the conclusion that the continents , rather than sailing about the earth until they met in catastrophic collisions , separated and came together again repeatedly along the same general lines . |
| 29 | Rather than investing in a filter , it may be better to use bottled water if you are just avoiding tap-water for a few weeks . |
| 30 | They 're one of the reasons I now make everyone come to me , rather than traipsing round the world . ’ |