Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And he claims specifically that this is because writing itself has a dual , a poetic and a critical function .
2 The above three methods , while allowing you to send a tangible piece of paper as a gift , do mean you incur postal costs and are reliant on UK and foreign postal systems .
3 The above three methods , while allowing you to send a tangible piece of paper as a gift , do mean you incur postal costs and are reliant on UK and foreign postal systems .
4 The above three methods , while allowing you to send a tangible piece of paper as a gift , do mean you incur postal costs and are reliant on UK and foreign postal systems .
5 This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s .
6 While waiting we watched a small number of trusted prisoners in ragged white cotton shirts , shorts and head-dress come and go apparently freely through the outer gate , engaged in errands or in work in the nearby gardens .
7 Another helping organisation , the Family Welfare Association ( address on page 146 ) has produced Keeping Fit While Caring which contains a step-by-step guide to lifting without injury and other hints .
8 While wishing you to have a nice day wherever you may be , the folks at Dixons/Silo prefer that if you 're in the UK , you do your shopping at Dixons , where prices are 60 to 80 per cent higher .
9 Archer was said to have become especially depressive when starving himself to make the required weight .
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