Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you can not afford to leave , might it not be better to put up with the treatment that you have received rather than becoming unemployed ? |
| 2 | ‘ It may be that those involved in the sale of gilt options did not realise that they actually increased the risk to which the council was exposed rather than reducing it . ’ |
| 3 | One attractive aspect of this theory is that it highlights the way in which formal instruction can inhibit learning by not allowing sufficient scope for self-expression and self-development — alienation following submission to being taught rather than learning how to learn . |
| 4 | In the case of South Africa , this kind of self-esteem has to be sought in deliberately resisting the implications of what is taught rather than accepting them . |
| 5 | I retrieved the case notes for as many patients as possible who had been registered locally as having died of asthma during 1980–9 ( 21 case notes out of 40 in total ) . |
| 6 | Mr Blunkett says : ‘ A modest but proper wage would be paid and schemes would be specifically developed rather than substituting for existing work . |
| 7 | How many can be regarded merely as affecting the objects in which the estate is now held to consist ( this is what the words permutatum dominium convey ) ? |
| 8 | Still , it is good to know that British boxers can now command as much money for fighting in London as they once would have received only when topping the bill in the United States . |
| 9 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 10 | While his superstar peers make records with one ear cocked in anxious deference to pop currency , Prince alone behaves like an aristocrat , squandering the success he 's earned rather than consolidating the estate with cautious measures . |
| 11 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 12 | Many English teams playing in European competitions have fared badly when moving on to water-based pitches , still in short supply at home . |
| 13 | de Gaulle is squeezed in as suffering from ‘ terminal grandiosity ’ . |
| 14 | Your savings must total less than £6,000 though £1 of ‘ notional income ’ is added in when working out your income level for every £250 ( or part thereof ) of savings over £3,000 . |
| 15 | Your savings must total less than £6,000 though £1 of ‘ notional income ’ is added in when working out your income level for every £250 ( or part thereof ) of savings over £3,000 . |
| 16 | Your savings must total less than £6,000 though £1 of ‘ notional income ’ is added in when working out your income level for every £250 ( or part thereof ) of savings over £3,000 . |
| 17 | Such information needs to be considered together when selecting the most likely word from all candidates , which implies that the information must be combined in some way . |
| 18 | We have yet to reach the position where sufficient students appreciate the import of underlying theory and this is why the geomorphologist reaches for his soil augur once theory is mentioned ( Chorley , 1978 ) and perhaps the situation will be resolved only when training in physical geography demands greater familiarity with scientific and mathematical methods and notation . |
| 19 | He adds : ‘ People who get carried away when describing their wares can end up in the small claims court . ’ |
| 20 | The 22-year-old was carried off while playing for Norway in China and informed by the team doctor that he would be out of action until Christmas . |
| 21 | Robyn 's eyes registered the rich blue carpet , the cream walls , and then something else registered ; something else mattered more than feeling sick and cold and terrible . |
| 22 | The full expression of flight can really be conjured up when drawing the gliders and soarers . |
| 23 | I had a choice between a Western adventure in German , two American spy thrillers or a much-thumbed pornographic comic which had had all the lurid pages torn out as wanking aids . |
| 24 | As I said , I think that this issue is of very considerable constitutional importance , because the effect of the judgment is to separate the activities of a Minister acting under his own name from those carried out while acting as a Minister of the Crown . |
| 25 | Heart rate measurement and breath by breath analysis of oxygen consumption ( the only exact method — compare our competitors ) are carried out whilst running on a treadmill . |
| 26 | Kaunda is now reported here as talking of Rhodesia as becoming another Phnom Penh ( or however you spell it ) , or Saigon . |
| 27 | Aircraft maintenance function would be considered today as having five generations of development , as follows ( see Fig. 5 ) : |
| 28 | ( This concept is considered again when discussing the NHS — refer to Chapter 7 , pages 90–7 . ) |
| 29 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 30 | A few borings indicating greater thicknesses might be explained away as going diagonally through detritus on the outer flank of the reef , but there are now too many for one to conclude that the results can be explained in this way . |