Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another pan , cook the chopped onion and celery with the tomatoes and 150 ml ( 6 fl oz ) water , or if using tinned tomatoes omit the water . |
| 2 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |
| 3 | The approaches to the education of children with special needs , culminating in the 1981 Education Act , are equally applicable to pupils with defective vision , some of whom will be included among those pupils who are defined as having learning disabilities significantly greater than the majority of their peers , or as having some disability which would prevent them from having their needs fully met without special educational adaptations or modification to their curriculum . |
| 4 | When either looking for blocks of text from other documents to include in the new document database or when considering new additions to the semantic net itself , preference was given to additions that would make the semantic net manifest more analogical inheritance . |
| 5 | Sometimes we are not convincing because what we say is belied by our actions — for instance , a woman who wears a permanent fixed smile while trying to reprimand a subordinate , or when returning faulty goods to a shop . |
| 6 | It may well give me a reason to break the law when encountering the secret police , when coming up against censorship , or when confronting other forms of injustice or repression . |
| 7 | This appears to be an accurate assessment of the fact that although joining high speed roads almost always feels dangerous there had in fact been relatively few accidents recorded at that site in the three year period studied . |
| 8 | Also remember that although signing one card for everyone might be cheaper for you , there are still some folk within the fellowship who may not have a big circle of family or friends and who would really appreciate a card from you . |
| 9 | Blocks of this kind have the advantage of being regular and of uniform size , making planning , estimating and building easier than if using natural stone . |
| 10 | The virtue of this control/constraint approach is that while laying due emphasis on the significance of management power , it also makes clear that management control is not an absolute . |
| 11 | Although while making those allegations and telling their bar room stories the Government have added that they propose to respect their obligations under United Nations conventions , they have always followed that with attempts to make the nation 's flesh creep with the thought of the foreign hordes from whom an heroic Home Secretary is now protecting us . |
| 12 | These are not recognised by the elder as a social error ( something possible at the level of practical consciousness ) nor as having hazardous consequences ( which perhaps requires verbal consciousness ) . |
| 13 | You could still transfer stitches by hand tooling but , except when working small motifs , this would take more time than would be worth the effort . |
| 14 | Will he ensure that when considering any bids , any prospective purchases for the hospital , the needs of the health authority will be borne in mind ? |
| 15 | Why the hell do you think we come ? ’ — Blackpool woman representative queuing to enter the conference headquarters hotel in the small hours ‘ I 'm bound to say that when considering some examples of modern architecture I enthusiastically join those who say , ‘ God bless the Prince of Wales ’ . ' |
| 16 | It is useful to point out that when using such materials choreographers must know their vocabulary very thoroughly and select movements through which they can emphasise the moment when disaster strikes . |
| 17 | She confirmed that when seeing each other they always tried to use separate entrances and exits . |
| 18 | This experiment hypothesises that when shadowing verbal material , tasks using the left hemisphere are more likely to be affected than those using the right hemisphere . |
| 19 | I used it for areas hard to reach with chisel and mallet , and expect that when carving delicate work it has the advantage of not disturbing the workpiece with sudden strikes . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it does seem reasonable to suggest that teachers need to be aware that when tackling many writing tasks pupils will achieve a greater degree of success , both as writers and as learners , if they can work in stages , and if within these stages they have sympathetic and informed support from both teachers and peers — not , I would insist , seeking to impose a preconceived notion of how to plan or how to write , but helping pupils to discover what works best for them . |
| 21 | THE APPROACH of the Eden Park Test initially was viewed with trepidation , and the majority of the five changes to the home team were seen as signs of disarray rather than as providing fresh blood . |
| 22 | We have been obliged to meet this difficulty by treating the lower prizes as marks of distinction for merit rather than as indicating special selection of the design as fitted for separate construction . |
| 23 | All the arguments considered so far against the use of portfolio-grid analysis of the McKinsey-GE type are , in my view , better seen as warnings about simplistic use of the technique rather than as indicating fundamental flaws in it . |
| 24 | Many consumers are against it : about three out of ten say it 's never a good thing , and most others see it as an occasional necessity rather than as having positive advantages ( see Appendix I , Main survey ) . |
| 25 | But the story is made more vivid by judicious descent into detail , never more so than when identifying individual residents of Broad Street , Ludlow , in a painting of 1765 . |
| 26 | But he faces a much stiffer task than when winning this race last year , and he is most unlikely to cope with DEEP SENSATION . |
| 27 | And although adding new terminology ( or reinterpreting old terminology ) to a subject already burdened with varying and often confusing descriptors must be viewed circumspectly , the use of the term information skills does usefully illuminate the nature of the new emphasis . |
| 28 | The Queen 's Bench Division Direction says that the wording must be specific , and if prescribing unpleasant consequences unless a particular act is done , the order must make clear the precise period within which the act is to be done except that unless the court otherwise specifies , no time need be specified in the case of judgments or orders for the payment of money , for possession of land , or the delivery of goods ; in those cases , the order , unless some time is specified , may be enforced immediately . |
| 29 | The Driver in the case of a light engine then goes to the telephone to inform the Signalman each end of the tunnel and give them all particulars and if blocking both lines . |
| 30 | They would also assume the validity of the religious starting-point , and while acknowledging that faith should never be forced onto people — that freedom is essential for real religious awareness to develop — they are nevertheless sure that they are right and that no teacher will be misleading the young if they teach religion straight . |