Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best way to practise your tiling skills if you 've never done any before if by covering just a small area such as a washbasin splashback , where setting out the tiles so they are centred on the area concerned is a simple job , and you have the minimum of tile cutting to do . |
| 2 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 3 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 4 | Use the open item method and show all unpaid invoices individually on your statement rather than bringing forward a single unpaid and undetailed balance from last month . |
| 5 | The company says that it intends to support the FDDI , Fibre Channel Standard and Parallel Channel Attachment standards but this will be for connecting the SP1 to file servers and hosts rather than speeding up the local network within the chassis . |
| 6 | Rovers manager Kenny Dalglish , whose joy at an overdue win was soured by an injury to England goal machine Alan Shearer , said referee Keith Hackett seemed more concerned with the back-pass law than stamping out the tackle from behind . |
| 7 | Rather than rooting out a selection of screwdrivers before going away from base , the pack and ‘ T ’ handle were thrown in . |
| 8 | This is important because walking uphill requires more energy than walking along a level surface . |
| 9 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 10 | There 's nothing more satisfying than dressing up a table to suit the occasion . |
| 11 | Stating at the end of the month or year that a set number of child welfare visits were achieved seems less exposing of one 's abilities than filling in a form stating what percentage of parents who received programme visits are reading to their babies , playing games with them and what nutritional and health targets have been met . |
| 12 | With the recent publication of the Peak Supplement , most activity has been on the repeat scene rather than filling in the gaps . |
| 13 | These cost-reduction circles may operate on an informal basis and focus on the removal of obvious bottlenecks rather than looking where the company 's cost system directs , but , as business becomes more and more competitive , it may be necessary to track cost-reduction progress . |
| 14 | But there are some thing she ca n't change , like the way he shoves his hand into his pocket , his preference for classical music to Dire Straits , and looking at buildings rather than eyeing up the latest cat-walk creations |
| 15 | He loves nothing more than slaving over a hot work bench to extract the last 0.5bhp needed to win his rider a world title , but as Yamaha 's GP technical co-ordinator last year he did n't get that chance . |
| 16 | What does it involve other than sending out a few letters , keeping a record of what has been done , and putting some figures together at regular intervals ? |
| 17 | ‘ It 's less threatening for men to lump women together and deal with them as one , rather than pointing out the differences . ’ |
| 18 | Rather than cutting out a whole range of foods , concentrate on the foods that are known to be problematic in eczema : milk , eggs , beef , chicken , food additives , oranges , lemons and other citrus fruits . |
| 19 | ‘ This is clearly demonstrated by farmers who simply use the bull of the day rather than reading up the figures and selecting the best sire for their needs . ’ |
| 20 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 21 | Young Stuart Duncan is back in action after his career was put on hold following a serious knee injury last Christmas and Malone are still hoping that former Irish Schools ' star Scott Kirkpatrick remains at home rather than taking up an option to return to the States . |
| 22 | Sticking your willy up strange holes had to be riskier than standing over a lavatory basin . |
| 23 | Falling off a tall building is , after all , much more dangerous than falling off a low wall . |
| 24 | It 's easier than falling off a log . |
| 25 | All told , the Warwick researchers said that the compensation effects could increase employment by 420000 — more than cancelling out the destruction of jobs in factories or offices that take on board the new technologies . |
| 26 | Knill said that he was satisfied with NERC 's allocation from the Science Vote for 1992–3 ( see above ) , which although showing only a small percentage rise will allow the council to set up two new community projects : LOIS ( the Land-Ocean Interaction Study ) and Bridge ( the HEI-led British Mid-Atlantic Ridge project ) . |
| 27 | For him , the task was no more onerous than putting out the wheely bin on Monday . |
| 28 | It was obvious now to the World that America 's involvement had driven Kennedy into supporting a corrupt , totalitarian government because the US felt that stopping Communism was more important than setting up a democratic government in South Vietnam . |
| 29 | We need members need to get a grip on what is happening and my wife suggests this , that the panel erm rather than setting up a new panel , look at the whole issue of school meals , this and other issues . |
| 30 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |