Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 2 | Some of the bones had started to develop algal growth in the prevailing damp conditions , although resting on a dry substrate , and this has obscured the surface of the bones to a certain extent ( Fig. 1 . |
| 3 | Your education or training will have taken you far above the ordinary man although allowing for a proper pride in such an achievement , it does not require you to become intolerant of others not so fortunate . |
| 4 | I find knitting from a pattern in the Design Controller even easier than knitting with a mylar sheet . |
| 5 | The process of vortex stretching , considered in Section 6.6 , will thus be strongly present — although occurring in a random fashion . |
| 6 | Later we were joined in an organising committee by a number of other people who , although acting in a personal capacity , had through their paid employment or voluntary work direct experience of the issues which were to form the core of the conference . |
| 7 | Fourth , decisions are made in sequence rather than according to a grand plan , because the series of searches crucially affects outcomes and because each time a search is concluded another problem is attended to . |
| 8 | But I had no idea how to implement my refusal and , when I began not to eat it was out of apathy and depression , out of a hopelessness concerning myself ( including my body ) , rather than according to a definite plan . |
| 9 | Rather than establishing at a strategic level housing requirements , so that local plans being formulated can weigh those housing requirements against environmental constraints . |
| 10 | While the South Devon Railway was clearly given special help by the DVR Board in year one through an advantageous lease and loco hire charges , it now stands alone as an independent commercial undertaking , albeit operating as a non-profit making trust . |
| 11 | Valium use , furthermore , focuses on individual malfunctioning : social and economic problems are dealt with in a framework of a medical model of relief of individual distress , alleviating symptoms rather than operating in a social context which may require familial or wider social change . |
| 12 | Pregnant women whose babies are overdue may be better off being induced rather than waiting for a spontaneous birth . |
| 13 | The patient , however , rather than succumbing to a nosocomial infection , may have an infectious condition when admitted and probably will be anxious about infecting others . |
| 14 | We found that a lot of young couples that because you do n't go to church on a regular basis but erm , to go along with their parents ' wishes too , rather than going through a big church wedding in a church , they go to a hotel and they have the erm , wedding ceremony and the reception all in the hotel , and are married by a minister . |
| 15 | The premium was on being involved as a partner , or as an invited guest , rather than remaining as a detached outsider . |
| 16 | No wonder she had never got further than teaching in a one-roomed schoolhouse . |
| 17 | Attaining maximum health involves much more than aiming for a low weight . |
| 18 | Rather than focusing on a few substances which are painted in lurid colours , the specialists say , the goal should be a workplace free of compulsive chemical use of all kinds . |
| 19 | Rather than recruiting to a specific job or skill , hiring is based on ‘ intelligence , character and general acceptability as determined by personal history , academic record and company interviews ’ ( Abegglen 1973 p.241 ) . |
| 20 | There 's nowt folk like more than reading about a good tune , so for as long as there is pop music , there will be glossies , inkies , monthlies , weeklies , columns , companions , fanzines , tradezines , pull-outs , poster-mags , flexi-mags , the lot . |
| 21 | After that they become too tall to manage easily , although dealing with a tall espalier growing flat on a wall is a breeze compared to pruning a bush tree of the same height . |
| 22 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 23 | The draftsman should , therefore , insert in the lease a positive covenant to keep the demised property open for trading during normal hours ( rather than relying on a negative user covenant " not to use the property otherwise than as … " , which would permit the tenant not to use the property at all ) . |
| 24 | Therefore it is hypothesized that , rather than evolving at a constant speed in calendar time , futures prices evolve at a constant speed in event time . |
| 25 | Now , I 'd rather be sitting in a car than standing on a crowded platform , but there was n't much in the way of light relief on the radio . |
| 26 | I made no protest at the time , though people asked me to , because I said ‘ there 's nothing worse than arguing against a foolish argument . |
| 27 | To say , as I pull my hand back from the flame , 'l have no reason to shun pain' , is no more than playing with a verbal formula of doubt ; it does not open any abyss under my feet like ‘ I have no reason to obey moral imperatives ’ . |
| 28 | In fact she 'd had a brief nap on the flight over and the adrenalin was racing round her body , making the possibility of sleep unlikely , but anything was better than sitting like a frightened child beside him , hoping against hope that he would finally melt and utter the sort of words she had once yearned to hear . |
| 29 | ( No. 2 ) [ 1990 ] 1 A.C. 109 ( one of the many Spycatcher cases ) , although referring to a common law ( or more strictly equitable ) action to protect a right of confidentiality , must also apply to the common law action of defamation to protect reputation . |
| 30 | Rather than ministering to a small elite , these institutions had now established their function as the " education of the upper intelligence groups of the nation " , selected according to criteria which included being " good " at English in school . |