Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem . |
| 2 | Too much cooperation and agreement can produce a ‘ love-in ’ where completing the task becomes secondary to enjoying interpersonal processes . |
| 3 | Often this seems to be taken to unnecessary lengths , since there are relatively few instances where seeing the book helps a selection decision , and even fewer where it is significant . |
| 4 | So long as this is done where improving the outcome is more important than deciding for oneself this acceptance of authority , far from being either irrational or an abdication of moral responsibility , is in fact the most rational course and the right way to discharge one 's responsibilities . |
| 5 | Stereolab always look tonight as if they 've got a few more tricks up their sleeve than anyone else around at the moment , and in an age where recycling the past to create a spurious version of the future is the order of the day , they may well prove to be a benchmark of quality for their times . |
| 6 | There are some exceptional occasions , when management want to convey a very precise message to a large number of employees , where reading the presentation may be justified . |
| 7 | They suit the range to very direct methods of sketching and drawing , where varying the contact between the pastel and the paper can provide all the necessary elements of technique . |
| 8 | Of particular note at Aberystwyth has been the redirection on line of Class 158s and 156s with the ubiquitous ‘ bubble ’ 153s now dominating the service . |
| 9 | Handling the information held in the system is more important than handling the system , for the system is merely a means to an end . |
| 10 | But there 's no bigger drain on public funds than financing the dole . |
| 11 | With this in mind , a less visually seductive format might well have allowed a more readily comprehensible layout ; serious readers do not object to all illustrations being bound together rather than fragmenting the text in this way . |
| 12 | But rather than helping the development of the country , these petrodollars would spread chaos and disappointment among millions of people , while offering fabulous opportunities of corruption to the court , the Shah 's family and may foreign companies and merchants . |
| 13 | Since then , however , the LDP had recovered ground under the steady leadership of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , while the opposition had been increasingly perceived as divided and as having little policy other than opposing the government . |
| 14 | Secondly , the professional may insist upon controlling the work that he or she does rather than allowing the administrator to impose control . |
| 15 | The possible solutions will depend on the severity of the handicap , but parents should be encouraged to consider ways in which their children might remain creatively active , thus continuing the process of education rather than allowing the person to retrogress . |
| 16 | If an employer is faced with the situation where an employee has , in his own time and using his own equipment , developed a useful computer program , then the employer should immediately try to reach agreement as regards questions of ownership and use of the programs with the employee concerned , rather than allowing the program to be used without such agreement . |
| 17 | In such a distinctly chic composition this hybrid between trelliswork and pergola helps contain the garden at ground level rather than allowing the view to be dominated by the high surrounding urban walls . |
| 18 | They remain merely an intriguing possibility , showing more about the human addiction to order than allowing the Earth to show her own organic nature . |
| 19 | Counselling the ill is more difficult than counselling the well , not least because of their reduced ability to think clearly , to make judgements , to arrive at sound decisions , to determine on a course of action and generally to fight their own battles . |
| 20 | Currently much effort is being directed at understanding the organizational processes of questioning and debate which such audits should stimulate rather than seeing the problem in terms of administrative techniques alone . |
| 21 | Rather than seeing the exploitation of the peasantry as the means to industrialisation Bukharin insisted that ‘ a qualitative increase in the productivity of national labour , and a determined fight against non-productive expenditure … are the main sources of accumulation . ’ |
| 22 | Rather than seeing the electorate as independent and politically minded , it has been argued that they were easily susceptible to manipulation from above , and that they tended to defer to the wishes of their social superiors . |
| 23 | Rather than accepting the idea of a new world order based on the community of nations as expressed through the United Nations , security is to be expressed through a series of Western- dominated collective security structures . |
| 24 | Their research produced statistical evidence of the way in which TV news systematically favoured certain points of view of current events , rather than maintaining the balance that was claimed ( Glasgow University Media Group 1976 ; see also Glasgow University Media Group 1985 ) . |
| 25 | find their healing rather than bringing the remedy to the person , and we may again find healing in the landscape by tending and restoring old clumps . |
| 26 | He helps in a lot of other ways than catching the ball . |
| 27 | That 's better than ca catching the eggs is better than catching the Wagon Wheel . |
| 28 | In many respects it fails to answer these issues satisfactorily , although allowing the court to order medical examinations without parental consent legitimizes a position well established on an informal basis amongst the professionals involved . |
| 29 | The Wolfenden Committee , reporting on prostitution in Britain , recommended measures to reduce its social visibility ( although allowing the phenomenon itself to persist ) . |
| 30 | Rather than completing the movement , however , he simply spun limply into the dust without a sound . |