Example sentences of "[subord] [subord] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was saying to Trevor it 's it 's not very nice but it 's rather so much better than than than having a cot death is n't it ? |
| 2 | An Olympic walker uses more energy than a jogger moving at the same speed , because he is walking at a speed where his muscles would use less energy if they were operating a spring than if moving a pendulum . |
| 3 | shots which show the Speaker receiving advice from a Clerk at the Table should not be used and Officers and staff should not normally be shown , except when taking an active part in the proceedings ; |
| 4 | The description of the facts is somewhat exiguous and I can not help feeling that if they had been fully stated the case would fall to be treated as involving a demand colore officii rather than as supporting the Woolwich principle . |
| 5 | They should be treated as place-holders for other propositions , rather than as representing a logically independent class of propositions of their own . |
| 6 | But it was Barth himself who really carried this programme through , insisting that even the doctrines of creation and sin must be grounded in christology , that there is no predestination of God apart from Jesus Christ , that on the cross Jesus himself is the one rejected and abandoned by God , and that both judgement and mercy , reprobation and election , must be seen as worked through in him , All these lines must , so to speak , be carried into the centre where they meet in Jesus Christ himself , and be seen as opening out from him rather than as constituting a distinct frame of reference into which he can be subsequently fitted . |
| 7 | However , unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite . |
| 8 | There 's a saying that ‘ a man never reveals his character more vividly than when portraying the character of another ’ . |
| 9 | The old adage ‘ Buyer Beware ’ is never truer than when buying a horse or pony . |
| 10 | However , I prefer NO COMEBACKS , not badly treated on just a 4lb higher mark than when landing a comfortable victory at Redcar last month . |
| 11 | John Webber 's gelding is well in on just a 5lb higher mark than when landing the Mildmay Of Flete at the Festival in March . |
| 12 | After considering updating the old parish church the decision was made to provide for the needs of the 21st century , building a church large enough for both the old St Peter & St Paul church and St George 's , Kettlethorpe . |
| 13 | Whether while winning the first US Open title in 1968 as an amateur or out-thinking Jimmy Connors in that classic Wimbledon final of 1975 , Ashe proved himself one of the game 's most gifted competitors . |
| 14 | I mind them they used to say too when afore having a boiled egg , you know just peedie . |
| 15 | Sainsbury 's , ranking 17 in The Times 1000 with 82 000 employees , when considering appointing a senior departmental director , chose to use headhunters for ‘ political reasons rather than convenience or speed ’ because they could then be informed in detail about the market for candidates . |
| 16 | The following comments should be borne in mind when considering making an application for a grant . |
| 17 | Definitions of Wilful Act are many and varied and in many cases of little benefit to the claims handler when considering invoking the exclusion to repudiate a claim . |
| 18 | just as when reading a favourite novel , we create the people and places described as we see them , so we draw on our own images and imagination to enrich our inner world , rather than accepting an unknown intruder — the voice on the tape . |
| 19 | Application is made on Form 96 and costs £6. ( d ) Action on receipt of reply As when considering the answer to question 18 made of the local authority , consider whether any unregistered disposition of the property for value has been made since registration of title became compulsory . |
| 20 | You will knit the same number of rows in all as when decreasing every alternate row , you just have to be careful to match all sides exactly and end neatly at the top . |
| 21 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 22 | Once mistaken for a joker , he could henceforth be seen as a crank : an important advance in reputation , though this playful and darting mind was seldom so serious as when it was spoofing , or so earnest in intent as when making a joke . |
| 23 | But then , unless the fascination is too powerful , there comes the point when keeping still is discarded and the rabbit , as though breaking a spell , turns in an instant to its other resource flight . |
| 24 | Tall narrow houses stood back to back and grimed curtainless windows stared blankly at her as though reflecting the hostility of those within . |
| 25 | A great deal of emphasis tends to be put on personal contacts , as though knowing a journalist personally somehow puts him or her in your pocket . |
| 26 | Yet when her visitor stepped a couple of paces forward as though requiring a closer look , it needed all her courage not to back away . |
| 27 | Young Yaxlee stamped on it , as he paced before them , as though quelling an insurrection . |
| 28 | When he responded it was in a monotone , as though reciting a catechism . |
| 29 | She gazed into the distance and spoke as though reciting a lesson . |
| 30 | The amputee 's tongue flickered silently , stumpily , as though tasting the molecules of Lexandro 's sweat which escaped into the air , before he resumed his discourse : ‘ The longest that anyone has endured a nerveglove at level tertius until irreversible insanity , is fifty-two minutes — by which time the pain signals were so burned into the nerves that they could never cease thereafter . ’ |