Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) it enables them to demand standards of quality , and ranges of goods which fit into their market strategy , rather than accepting what the manufacturer might prefer , |
| 2 | Worse than calling him a Jew , |
| 3 | Rather than doing it the other way . |
| 4 | Although counting himself an enthusiastic Darwinian , he favoured a Lamarckian view of the evolutionary mechanism and was strongly influenced by the idealist trend in pre-Darwinian biology . |
| 5 | There is nothing more interesting to a busy chief executive or personnel director than knowing what the competition are doing , what they are being paid and who is moving where . |
| 6 | ‘ He handed it to me as if it was no more than offering me an apple in a market-place . |
| 7 | What am I doing , Caroline , except offering you a way out of a situation you claim to abhor ? ’ |
| 8 | She drained her glass and swept her arm upwards , palm extended as if giving me a gift . |
| 9 | She looked across at him as if giving him a final appraisal and checking for further clues in his face , in his clothes . |
| 10 | She had caressed the name , purred over it , spoken it as if showing me a great treasure . |
| 11 | as if obeying her the bus did appear and ten minutes later she and Erika were at Frankfurter Allee , a roaring road choked with an army convoy : dozens of lorries , their contents masked by huge tarPaulins . |
| 12 | are now considering awarding them a permanent memento . |
| 13 | With regard to intrauterine devices we suggest that in some women developing endometriosis while using them the disease goes unrecognised and they are treated by removal of the device . |
| 14 | What reason could we produce to allow that she may have the capacity to act autonomously while denying her the capacity-to-act-autonomously ? |
| 15 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 16 | Now four English teenagers are dead following a canoeing accident off the Dorset coast , intensifying the concerns of parents all over Britain as they watch their children set off with their mates , while wondering what the chances are that something might go horribly wrong . |
| 17 | But as the Con-Sec pointed out , while paying me an extra two quid for stepping into the breach , I could n't pinch Dave Swan 's act . |
| 18 | Doctors can convince trusting patients that they will get better even while giving them a course of pills which consist of little more than sugar and water . |
| 19 | Open/36 is designed to enable System/36 users to move their applications , without recompilation to Sparc systems , while giving them a complete System/36 environment that includes all their familiar tools . |
| 20 | It aims to provide the boys with a good education , in a caring environment , while giving them the opportunity to train towards the specific goal of reaching the top 50 in the world , as professional tennis players . |
| 21 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 22 | NOTTINGHAM condemned Rosslyn Park to almost certain relegation while giving themselves a glimmer of hope of survival in League One with their first victory of the season , based on three tries by flanker Martin Pepper and 18 points from outside-half Guy Gregory . |
| 23 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 24 | They help take students out of the confines of the classroom , while affording them the opportunity to practise pronunciation , grammar , structure and vocabulary . |
| 25 | The interior spaces of the wedge-shaped building were converted to suit their new function by artists Robert Irwin and Richard Fleischner , with architect David Raphael Singer , whose particular brief was to retain the all-glass walls of the building while making it a suitable and secure venue for displaying works of art . |
| 26 | While making herself a light meal , though , she found she could n't stop dreaming about him . |
| 27 | So , even your interest can be earning interest while leaving you the option of getting at your money instantly if you need to . |
| 28 | Paul opens the door , to be confronted by a bespectacled American doing a poor impersonation of Chuck D. Four Eyes is pursing his lips , pointing a finger at Merton while offering him a mock high five . |
| 29 | The Encomiast alleges that Swegen Forkbeard took his elder son Cnut on the conquest of England , leaving Harald , the younger , in Denmark , and that after Swegen 's death Cnut returned and asked Harald to divide it between them , while offering him the eventual choice of Denmark or England if he would assist in subjugating the latter ; but Harald refused both requests and , after jointly bringing their mother back from among the Slavs , Cnut sailed for England alone . |
| 30 | Jasper tries to look up my skirt whilst handing me a drink . |