Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1931 B minor Sonata is also far superior to a later version from 1933 ( although the space between Cortot 's various recordings was often narrow , his performances , while retaining their essential outward characteristics , varied in detail , biased this way or that according to the heat and inspiration of the moment ) with a ravishing second subject in the opening Allegro maestoso and a central quaver flow in the Largo in which melody and counter-melody swell and recede like some magical sea . |
| 2 | They will only get help if they can not easily realise savings of the person who died to pay for the bill , or if paying for the bill brought their own family savings below £500 . |
| 3 | I have discovered that during periods of withdrawal from normal mental activity — during meditation , or while hovering on the borders of sleep , for instance — it is sometimes possible to look right into that ‘ teeming womb ’ and release its contents prematurely . |
| 4 | The reading undertaken while under stress — while waiting for the dentist , for example , or while sitting in a plane during turbulence , or when fatigued at the end of the day — is usually of this order . |
| 5 | The children performed these tasks either silently or while engaging in a task designed to suppress their vocalisation of the word names . |
| 6 | A gamble or a bet or wager was a way of life to the men of the village , and often a wager would be made at work or whilst drinking in the local . |
| 7 | Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage . |
| 8 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 9 | In addition , loss of acuity of the senses — particularly impaired sight and hearing — will reduce an elderly person 's awareness of danger , for example when crossing roads or when cooking in the kitchen . |
| 10 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 11 | In an open letter to members of parliament in 1991 the Metropolitan Authorities Recruitment Agency ( METRA ) which has led the debate on agism said : ‘ Many people of all ages face unfair discrimination at work or when looking for a job , simply because of their date of birth . |
| 12 | Later you can do the same thing when walking along or when sitting in a car ( but only if you are the passenger please — do n't try it while driving ! ) |
| 13 | Recall that , according to the ‘ accelerator ’ , investment depends on changes in income , and that according to the multiplier , changes in investment cause changes in income . |
| 14 | Rhythmic patterns tend to be sober and square-cut , and that liking for the C mode — as such , e.g. in Clemens 's Missa Misericorde , s or transposed to F with a B flat key-signature — which we have already noticed in Josquin , becomes very pronounced . |
| 15 | It becomes abundantly clear from these accounts that then as now , family support was a two-way process , and that responding to a crisis could result in intense friction as well as in deep affection . |
| 16 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 17 | Very occasionally he also made designs to be carried out by others — and if acting in an architect 's supervisory capacity only he would charge the 5 per cent fee which was normal at the time — while at Ditchley he was , remarkably , employed as both ‘ surveyor ’ , receiving his 5 per cent , and mason contractor . |
| 18 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 19 | ‘ I started my classes mainly because I got lonely sitting up in my workshop all day and because going to a class is how I started . |
| 20 | Refusal by the client to furnish a written representation that the firm believes is essential would normally be grounds for reappraising our relationship with the client and considering withdrawing from the engagement . |
| 21 | Pat Wells describes the attack : ‘ This was our first readiness at Malta and whilst sitting in the crew room were astonished to hear the air-raid sirens howling — in the U.K. we had always been airborne before the sirens sounded . |
| 22 | They were well-broken and when grazing in the fields , came to a call , taking no catching . |
| 23 | Working with a graduate student , Andrew Himes , Dr Simpson decided he had overestimated the number of fat neutrinos , but that he still saw them , both when repeating his work on tritium and when looking at the beta decays of sulphur . |
| 24 | After washing , twist taps were not turned off with the paper towel ; and where elbow taps were available , they were used properly only four times ; and when disposing of the paper towel in foot-operated pedal bins , nurses used their hands to open and close the bins . |
| 25 | The worry of a breakdown is always at the back of most riders ' minds and when travelling on the continent the wise take out special cover . |
| 26 | I suspect that there are many millions more who can function only in a contented fashion when given jobs to do , and when working to a pattern worked out by somebody else . |
| 27 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 28 | The author of the Life of Wilfrid , who represents Wilfrid as persuading the king and queen to accept the word of God and as preaching to a people who had never before heard the Gospel , undoubtedly exaggerates the paganism of the southern Saxons , for Bede reveals from non-Wilfridian sources , first , that Aethelwealh had married a Christian princess and had been baptized himself and , second , that a number of ealdormen and thegns had likewise received baptism , with the priests , Eappa , Padda , Burghelm and Aeddi ministering to the common people either at the time of Aethelwealh 's conversion or subsequently ( HE IV , 13 ) . |
| 29 | Rabin kept the Defence Ministry under his own control , together with those of Religious Affairs , Labour and Social Affairs ( pending the appointment of other ministers and as according to the law ) . |
| 30 | A spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry was later quoted as reaffirming that the disputed islands belonged to Iran , and as referring to the GCC 's use of " inappropriate words " . |