Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do not need to be a dressmaker to use the cut and sew method , although using sewing machine speeds things up . |
| 2 | This again was a corn mill , that continued to work , although producing animal feed in later life , until the late 1950s . |
| 3 | Some counties take the view that the cricket they provide should take the form that their members want rather than allowing Test cricket to take precedence . |
| 4 | Rather than seeing child abuse as an exceptional problem requiring an exceptional response , and hence a qualitatively different practice , we should see it as part of child care and hence child care practice . |
| 5 | The larger number of subjects in the recognition phase for each stimulus increases the reliability of signal detection measures calculated for individual stimuli so these measures were calculated immediately rather than using hit rate for further analyses . |
| 6 | This is implicitly recognised by DoE Circular 22/80 , para 13 which states that wherever possible planning objections should be met by attaching conditions to the permission or by use of agreements under s.52 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , rather than refusing planning permission . |
| 7 | The general implications of this would be that fixed information is very seldom attended to in the judgment phase ( and possibly in normal driving ) and on those occasions in recognition tests when it is attended to , rather than aiding recognition sensitivity , its unfamiliarity simply biases subjects towards calling all stimuli distractors . |
| 8 | IT IS arguable that successive British Governments , although paying lip service from time to time to the notion of being able to change the institutions of the EEC ‘ from within ’ , have never in reality held out much hope of doing so ; rather , perhaps , has it been their true intent to use the institutions of the EEC to shape the policy of Europe in their own image . |
| 9 | Would that it were as easy as sticking your hand up to vote for it Because I have to say that I see no evidence since that motion approving the management initiative was passed of Labour and Liberal members doing any more than paying lip service . |
| 10 | Rather than invoking preservation bias or seasonal occupation of the habitat to explain the geological record , we should rule out the freezing winters and torrid summers simulated by the climate models . |
| 11 | Mid Essex Mental Health Services is one of the few remaining branches of the NHS in the county still answerable directly to its local health authority rather than having trust status . |
| 12 | Bit better than saying filing clerk . |
| 13 | These reforms have a common aim : to control escalating costs by improving efficiency rather than cutting patient care . |
| 14 | By getting used to eating oranges rather than drinking orange juice , eating apples rather than drinking apple juice , and so on , you are establishing a good habit which will help to control your weight in the future . |
| 15 | By getting used to eating oranges rather than drinking orange juice , eating apples rather than drinking apple juice , and so on , you are establishing a good habit which will help to control your weight in the future . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 17 | Even with free plutonium , MOX is unlikely to be cheaper than making uranium fuel from scratch unless uranium prices soar . |
| 18 | Heavy reliance is placed on sources set up for purposes other than monitoring population change , including the International Passenger Survey ( designed to estimate travellers ' spending patterns ) , the National Health Service Central Register and the electoral roll . |
| 19 | The supply of debt finance is less risky than supplying equity finance and so investors will demand a lower rate of return on a firm 's debt securities than on its equity securities . |
| 20 | The similarity of the clinical features , the frequency of associated inflammatory bowel disease , age at diagnosis , and radiological extent of disease all indicate that these patients can be considered to have primary sclerosing cholangitis rather than sclerosing cholangitis secondary to calculi damaging the biliary tree and resulting in stricture formation . |
| 21 | Many saw little utility in teaching reading rather than instilling labour discipline more directly . |
| 22 | An obvious issue would be the substitution of careful management by the GP ambulatory care , rather than requesting hospital admission . |
| 23 | I was horrified to learn , for example , that the government at one stage was spending more money on AIDS than preventing heart disease . |
| 24 | Raising equity capital is invariably more expensive than raising debt capital . |
| 25 | It would enable world leaders if encountering opposition world leaders to come into harmony before they started . |
| 26 | ) Tie knots in the cords at one end , and if using pencil pleat tape trim the tape only to within 1.5cm ( ½in ) of knot . |
| 27 | If using mains lighting , feed the cable through conduit buried at least 450mm ( 18in ) deep , connecting it indoors to a residual current device . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , well I suppose in your line of business you get used to bodies and blood and things , ’ said Mrs Foster , as if writing crime fiction was in some way akin to working in an abattoir . |
| 29 | Anyone actually holding the weathervane when it shatters suffers 4 automatic Wounds ( 3 if wearing metal armour on all limbs or a metal breastplate ) , and anyone else within 2 yards suffers 1 automatic Wound from fragments of flying metal , whether wearing metal armour or not . |
| 30 | Leonora 's heart sank at the prospect of a whole fortnight without him , and as if scenting victory Penry moved closer , his long forefinger caressing her drooping lower lip . |