Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at it quite philosophically , seeing poaching as an irritant but also as an inevitable occurrence ; in headhunting , all 's fair in love and war . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the escapement is hinged to the key rather than fitting into a slot and the hammer points towards the player . |
| 3 | Rather than looking in a magazine and buying something that that erm |
| 4 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
| 5 | So nothing could be more natural than going for a walk and holding hands with mum . |
| 6 | Be very careful if ordering from a catalogue and not actually seeing the plants in full growth ; read the descriptions most carefully . |
| 7 | If hesitating between a peach and a pear you languidly inspect sniff and fondle the fruit before deciding for the pear , and eat it slowly with a look of bliss , no one who has left behind the absolutism of childhood ( ‘ Anyone can see that a peach is nicer than a pear ’ ) will doubt that you made the best possible choice between the flavours ; the rightness of the choice , and the objective fact that in the fullest awareness of the two flavours you were spontaneously moved to take the pear , are two sides of the same coin . |
| 8 | Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn are far more important , because working with a portastudio and a mixing desk in the rehearsal room will teach a novice engineer a lot about sound mixing . |
| 9 | She hesitated while searching for an answer that would not betray the fact that she longed to remain in Stella 's place but that she feared for her own emotional state . |
| 10 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 11 | In such cases while talking of a person as being an authority one refrains from talking of him as in authority over oneself , and avoids regarding his advice or instructions as binding , even when , given one 's goals , one ought to treat it in exactly the same way as one treats a binding authoritative directive . |
| 12 | The felt need to get the cleaning done conflicts with the desire to be sociable ; one can iron , or perhaps cook , while talking to a friend or neighbour , but one can not wield a vacuum cleaner and carry on a conversation at the same time . |
| 13 | One day — so the story goes — whilst staying on a walking and fishing holiday with friends , he was asked by the village schoolmistress to mind a group of local children . |
| 14 | Organisations , whether operating in a paper or electronic environment , need to ensure that adequate record-keeping procedures are established for a range of complementary reasons : |
| 15 | Bargaining power , whether belonging to an individual or a group , is sometimes regarded as a rather mysterious ingredient and indeed there is a multitude of definitions . |
| 16 | These may be helpful when recovering from an illness or if you fear your normal diet is lacking . |
| 17 | Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit . |
| 18 | The Consumer Credit Act 1974 can prove particularly useful when buying goods by mail order , because , with all due respect to the advertiser , you do n't always know much about where your hard earned wages are going when ordering from a paper or magazine . |
| 19 | However all property belongs to God , ‘ The Land is mine and you are coming to it as strangers and pilgrims ’ ( Gen. 25:23 ) and so property rights are circumscribed by legal requirements : the responsibility to leave gleanings of corn and grapes for the poor , the right of a person to eat corn and grapes when passing through a field or vineyard , the requirement that the land be fallow during the Sabbatical year . |
| 20 | When looking for a stretch that may contain them I 'm after variety in depth and flow , lots of lovely gravel and plenty of watercrowfoot for shelter . |
| 21 | When looking in a shop or through a manufacturer 's or mail-order catalogue for hot water cylinders , you will find several different types . |
| 22 | I 'm building up my own business as well as looking after a husband and three children . |
| 23 | Add one phrase at a time : When listening to a text or story in the classroom , or to a public speech of some kind , you can mimic by " tracking " , which means that you mimic silently or under your breath a few syllables behind the speaker . |
| 24 | This might be the case with provocation , for example : there may be objections to some of the distinctions now drawn by the law of provocation , but a broader defence of extreme emotional disturbance might provide for reduction of the offence in cases of loss of self-control when caring for a baby or when arrested by a police-officer known to be acting lawfully , and some might feel that there are strong arguments against this . |
| 25 | The 25-year-old Manchester left-hander fought hard for victory after losing control when leading by a set and 4–1 . |
| 26 | This saves 50% of the work when inputting into a database and allows for less mistakes . |
| 27 | Some social workers try to teach their own customers some codes to use when speaking to a doctor or a magistrate or an official in the housing department . |
| 28 | certain words or acts can , as a matter of law , be interpreted only as amounting to a dismissal or resignation ; |
| 29 | Molly raised her voice slightly as though speaking to a foreigner and tried to get to the heart of the matter . |
| 30 | Emma-Hoo is depicted as riding on a water-buffalo and parading past lines of men to pass judgement upon them , reflecting their sentence back to them by means of a giant bronze mirror on his breast . |