Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he exited so violently down the throat of Hell that he ripped the tongue and set the snout bobbing as if Hell were about to sneeze . |
| 2 | This involves working mentally and physically to keep distractions at bay , guarding the tongue to speak little and to the point , taking especial care not to misrepresent others , living as if death might come tomorrow and balancing the needs of the body with the longings of the spirit in discretion . |
| 3 | He dressed superbly , while looking as if clothes were unimportant to him . |
| 4 | ‘ I adore little Madge , ’ said Dame Edna , glaring after she closed the door and looking as if murder was more on her mind , ‘ but frankly , she gets too big for her boots sometimes . |
| 5 | When children acquire more than one language at once , they too begin by acting as if Contrast applied at one level only when they themselves are speaking . |
| 6 | She had tried to help Carolyn , and now the bloody girl was acting as if Clare was a bossy teacher . |
| 7 | All too often , shrubs , including roses , conifers and the like , are planted not for their intrinsic beauty , not for an attractive combination of colour , but because they do not need so much looking after as plants that have to be lifted before the frost , and replanted fresh each year' . |
| 8 | The Government , he said , was not predisposed to pay attention and believed that no idea was worth listening to unless Ministers had thought of it themselves . |
| 9 | The concept of date de valeur is used to predict cash flow , by anticipating when items will clear the bank account , according to whether cheques are for banks classified as ‘ out of town ’ or ‘ in town ’ . |
| 10 | The amount of the tax has still to be fixed but would be on a sliding scale according to whether containers can be recycled or not . |
| 11 | Subjects were divided into one of two groups according to whether H pylori eradication was successful or not . |
| 12 | This hypothesis can be investigated by consulting figure 13.2 , in which the sample has been subdivided according to whether respondents lived in households with a gross annual income from all sources of less or more than £6000 in 1984 ( termed somewhat inaccurately ‘ the rich ’ and ‘ the poor ’ in the discussion which follows ) . |
| 13 | It has been said more than once in the decided cases that section 7(4) can not receive different constructions according to whether resort to the subsection arises for one of the reasons under section 7(3) or because the driver exercises his right to claim to have his breath specimen replaced under section 8(2) . |
| 14 | He explained how the positions would change according to the kind of bowler , fast , slow , medium , or according to whether leg-breaks were being bowled or off-spin employed . |
| 15 | Calculating your personal allowance used to be fairly complicated as there were all sorts of variations according to whether individuals were married or single and whether only one partner , or both husband and wife , worked . |
| 16 | Talk about variations in vocabulary according to purpose , topic and audience and according to whether language is spoken or written , eg slang , formal vocabulary , technical vocabulary . |
| 17 | Again , according to Bernstein ( 1975 ) , Ball ( 1981 ) , and many more , schooling can have opposite effects on children according to whether children have been socialized into working-class or middle-class aspirations , and according to the actual way the schooling process is structured by the state , the teachers , and the subject-disciplines . |
| 18 | As soon as Fiver had found a place to clamber out , he led the way along the edge to the bank which Hazel had been looking at before Hawkbit spoke to him . |
| 19 | These involve looking at whether personnel or premises were shared , the nature of the businesses , the way that the subsidiary 's profits are treated and the amount of decision-making autonomy held by the subsidiary 's directors . |
| 20 | the work will be still continued on that , but also in terms of Bungay itself , we 're looking at whether county management can look at this and sort of if you like identify it , so we have n't abandoned Bungay , far from it , we 're still concerned with the , we 've got the , the base of the facts still go on er and , and we 're gon na continue on Monday . |
| 21 | She almost laughed when she reflected that here was she fretting about whether Time would give him back to her or not . |
| 22 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 23 | Lessing 's close-set eyes followed him , and Nathan Holland who was hurrying after lest Paul slip on the stairs . |
| 24 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 25 | But supposing I invested equal amounts of parental investment in both and supposing that if offspring A gives two units of parental investment to offspring B , the benefit to B 's reproductive success will be three minutes , which it could be , if B was younger . |
| 26 | Although it is the coroner 's court 's function simply to find the cause of death , under what circumstances it happened and who , if anybody , is to be charged and with what , many members of the public plus the national papers were speaking as if Drew had already been indicted . |
| 27 | She went on speaking as if Mr Fry was n't there . |
| 28 | The procedure for severance differs depending upon whether title to the matrimonial home is registered or not . |
| 29 | Hierarchical relationships take one of two forms , depending upon whether A is subordinate to B , C , … , |
| 30 | Typical costs for such systems range from £5 to £30 per employee per annum depending upon whether payroll is included . |