Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Respect for young readers is often expressed by working with them as distinct from working for them ; asking them rather than telling them . |
| 2 | D S S will actually pay them rather than telling us to pay them . |
| 3 | Fitzroy Maclean and Bill Cumper , the engineer , managed to obtain a pair of small black inflatables , with the intention that the team would operate them rather than using SBS personnel . |
| 4 | If you find it hard to accept authority from younger nurses who may have less overall experience than you , try to explain your difficulties to them rather than allowing resentment to build up between you . |
| 5 | I just wonder erm , if this could n't be helped if you like , by increasing them rather than decreasing them , taking over perhaps some of the , not absolutely statutory , but some of the extra use of staff , and I do n't know if it 's possible , but at the moment I worry because some of the homes are only being inspected and visited by members anyway . |
| 6 | In addition , a study of the feasibility of devising criterion-referenced tests rather than norm-referenced ones was to be undertaken : that is , tests which give a description of the achievement of pupils who take them rather than placing the pupils in a relative order of achievement . |
| 7 | Yeah , if she 's got a young family , I mean , nine times out of ten it 's her that 's got to watch them rather than saying to the husband , oh I 'm off to play football dear ! |
| 8 | ‘ If you come across Amy , I think it would be best if you put her in touch with me rather than trying anything on your own . ’ |
| 9 | but you had a eight to finish with which is finishing and a one , two , three might not be and a better run so I think I would have been tempted to finish with the ace flush there try and stop me rather than trying to win it cos you had nothing else did you ? |
| 10 | Shana was forced to resort to humouring me rather than getting into arguments with me . |
| 11 | Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need . |
| 12 | Evelyn looked across at Rose sitting in the midst of them all but managing somehow to remain completely apart . |
| 13 | Can you eat three Shredded What for breakfast and keep them down while reading these ridiculous clichés ? |
| 14 | The thieves have been forcing their way into the homes of elderly people , holding them down while searching for their savings . |
| 15 | Sympathy with the person involved is often mentioned as the reason for cautioning someone rather than charging them . |
| 16 | ‘ Wife mistook husband for someone else when entering her room . |
| 17 | Why not give them away while saying , " Look here , have it , so long as you spend the proceeds on buying buses . " . |
| 18 | When problems have arisen such as in the urban riots they have explained them away as resulting from a lack of proper parental and school discipline ( blaming the victim again ) or as the work of political agitators . |
| 19 | He regards them not as belonging to a particular branch , but to the Area ; hence , ‘ transfer ’ has been erased from the Dictionary . |
| 20 | The gentle , careful , intelligent eyes that gave nothing away while leaving you with the impression that you and what you were saying were the most intelligent things she had ever beheld and heard . |
| 21 | Why , for instance , does Peggy not get satisfaction instead from trying to eradicate the difference between herself and Boris , e.g. by helping him reach the answer himself rather than telling him ? |
| 22 | In so far as Hartman 's book wants to be read as a form of fiction , one can make the adverse literary-critical point that the prose is dense and cloyingly arch , with a crooning , caressing quality about it , suggesting the tone of a man talking quietly and earnestly to himself rather than trying to communicate anything to others . |
| 23 | John Sculley at Apple Computer Inc is another name that has been canvassed , and he is the exception that proves the rule that an outsider ca n't run a computer company , but he came in fascinated by the business and devoted all his efforts in the early days learning about it for himself rather than relying on his minions , something no-one taking over IBM now has time to do . |
| 24 | He loved these allusions to river craft and the water , once describing himself approvingly as looking like a rough bargeman . |
| 25 | If an agent enters into the transaction , then for certain types of investment and if the agent does not regularly hold himself out as buying investments , the transaction is excluded . |
| 26 | ‘ ( 1 ) A party to a contract ‘ deals as consumer ’ in relation to another party if — ; ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) … the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 27 | A party to a contract " deals as a consumer " in relation to another party if — ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act [ ie other contracts of supply ] the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 28 | Section 12(1) of UCTA 1977 provides as follows : 12 – ( 1 ) A party to a contract " deals as consumer " in relation to another party if ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act , the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 29 | In Whitehouse v Jordan [ 1981 ] , the House of Lords confirmed that an error of judgment does not automatically indicate negligence , it depends whether the error would have been made by a reasonably competent professional man professing to have the standard and type of skill that the defendant held himself out as having . |
| 30 | Not even on the candidates ' list , Coun Wilson was asked to put himself forward while having a coffee on the Welsh stand during last year 's Party conference . |