Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's no bigger drain on public funds than financing the dole . |
| 2 | ‘ If the wholesale destruction of Youth be considered a saner method for world betterment than training the Boy , ’ he added as the bitterness showed through , ‘ then the club movement will not press its claim . ’ |
| 3 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 4 | On the other hand , my opinion is that , efficacious though it proved to be , there are better methods of inducing scepticism than applying a hard rubber , wielded in the sleeve of a gown , at high speed to the side of the head . |
| 5 | So it looks like this particular First Lady will have more serious matters on her mind than re-decorating the White House like Jackie Kennedy had . |
| 6 | He looked like a man with nothing more on this mind than reaching the bar on the far side of the room — and yet she could feel a tension in the muscle of his arm , see it in the set of his mouth . |
| 7 | I said from the outset that , in the eyes of the TCCB , the MCC and the International Cricket Council , the gouging of a cricket ball is a lesser crime than rocking the boat . |
| 8 | Other hazards in the kitchen include the hot cooker and hot baking utensils although protecting the hands and wrists with heat-resistant gloves helps to avoid burns . |
| 9 | I can think of nothing more damaging to law and order in the metropolis than having the hon. Gentleman as chairman of such an authority . |
| 10 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
| 11 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 12 | Against eight opponents — two of them , Akiko and Carson Bay , are his pacemakers — Arazi should have little trouble in confirming his booking to Louisville if reproducing the brilliance that saw him top the International Classification and America 's Experimental Handicap . |
| 13 | Marshall 's own father had a stroke while making the movie and the character Paula , who comes to visit her similarly stricken father , has obvious biographical resonance . |
| 14 | Nor does it contemplate the knock-on consequences for Labour ministers of attempting to implement their programme while rebuilding the governmental machine . |
| 15 | GEOFF Hornby had a close shave while making the first ascent of Peak 9070 on the south side of Mount Hunter in Alaska . |
| 16 | Changes of extracellular pH ( pH o ) were monitored just outside the cell while controlling the membrane potential by whole-cell clamping . |
| 17 | Inserts are a useful means of cutting away from the main subject to some subsidiary action while keeping the original sound going under the insert . |
| 18 | The GASB subsequently adopted an approach that is closer to the integral approach than the differential approach , though it is perhaps fair to say that the resulting list of user needs is closer to maintaining the status quo in governmental accounting while leaving the door open to the adoption of business accounting ideas in some areas . |
| 19 | During a break while attending a board meeting , I have looked beyond the faces and the smoke , and seen some idea that has carried me far away for a few moments . |
| 20 | Chris and Roderick were taking a break while spending a year studying engineering at Lyon as part of their degree courses at British universities . |
| 21 | In the previous section we suggested that a government could use taxes and welfare benefits to redistribute income-earning potential and thereby enforce its value judgements about equity while leaving the market economy to take care of allocative efficiency . |
| 22 | A FATHER and his nine-year-old son died in an avoidable tragedy while repairing a neighbour 's car . |
| 23 | Instead of preventing proliferation , it has promoted it by allowing nations to protest innocence while violating the treaty 's inadequate provisions . |
| 24 | To discover whether blockade of the renin-angiotensin system by angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibitors contributes to reducing microalbuminuria in normotensive diabetic patients independently of the fall in blood pressure , we compared enalapril 's effects on urinary albumin excretion with those of another antihypertensive drug , hydrochlorothiazide , which , unlike enalapril , decreases blood pressure by sodium depletion while stimulating the renin-angiotensin system . |
| 25 | It had been anticipated they would be operating mainly among the trees surrounding the estate , so the object was to go for maximum noise and shock effect while inflicting the least injuries possible . |
| 26 | Feeling in Congress was less critical than it had been and Senator William F. Knowland ( Republican , California ) , a lively critic of the administration , supported it over Korean aid while castigating the administration for the serious economic plight in which the Koreans found themselves . |
| 27 | Lopes da Silva later described the reshuffle as " regionalistic " , and also criticized the government 's economic policies , which he said placed excessive hope in foreign investment while ignoring the domestic needs of the population . |
| 28 | Does resource defence by females again increase the benefits of large body size to female clownfish while reducing the benefits of size to males as a consequence of female dispersion ? |
| 29 | Similarly , using the wrong rhythm while speaking a second language immediately singles you out as a foreigner . |
| 30 | They also " took up the case of Archibald McGreggor , Beadle , of whom an account of a fall from a horse while attending a funeral , a surmise had gone abroad that he was in a state of intoxication " but they found that " nothing could be made a ground of process against him . " |