Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 2 | Whilst this decision has been criticised as a " narrow " interpretation of the law ( ibid ) , our examination of the nature of casual working and the characteristics of the casual labour force in the hotels and catering sector raises the question of whether according casual workers employee status , and thus bringing them within the coverage of employment protection legislation , would be of any great relevance . |
| 3 | There was some fretting over the question of whether trading one parent for another rather than going public would put Unix right back where it was when the Open Software Foundation was formed . |
| 4 | A pain conceived of as being in another body is not yet conceived of as hurting another person . |
| 5 | This maintenance of a working class Tory vote sufficient to return the party to office can be thought of as having two components : first the reproduction of relatively stable social collectivities having a principle of identification outside the conception of ‘ class ’ which prompted most ‘ working class ’ people to vote Labour , and second a more conjunctural conversion of voters . |
| 6 | for example , can hazards really be thought of as having any intentionality ? |
| 7 | In this mode of attribution young people are not spoken of as having tragic love affairs , rather it is said that ‘ they ca n't cope with physical sexual experiences ’ . |
| 8 | Now , while as if bestowing some order of merit she fastened the beads round my neck , her face wore a motherly expression and for the first time I was with the Aunt Louise of my childhood . |
| 9 | Behind them , at the door , Lady Isabella peered on tip-toe over their shoulders , as if watching some masque or mummer 's play . |
| 10 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 11 | ‘ The protector closed his eyes and bowed his head , as if seeking Divine guidance . |
| 12 | ‘ It was gone , Eric , ’ he had explained , his eyes fidgeting to every part of Colonel Windsor 's crammed office as if seeking some corner which would not awaken images of once familiar surroundings . |
| 13 | Bernice waited for the Doctor to continue , but he walked on and then glanced sideways at her as if expecting another question . |
| 14 | I must have moaned : she looked at me coldly as if suspecting some kind of trickery , and then her face altered and she came across the room to take my arm and help me back to bed . |
| 15 | The southern Italian peasant , he said , acts as if following this rule : ‘ Maximise the material short-run advantage of the nuclear family ; assume that all others will do likewise . |
| 16 | He sat on the edge of the bed and began to recite all he knew as if memorising some poem : ‘ Buckingham dies , the agents die , garrotted to death . ’ |
| 17 | The debate over academic freedom has been structured as if attaining academic freedom is part of a zero-sum game . |
| 18 | ‘ I think it must be your eyes , ’ he said at last , running his own gaze up and down as if giving intimate consideration to every other feature of her body . |
| 19 | ‘ The lad seems to be hungry , ’ he said cautiously , as if testing unknown ground . |
| 20 | Thomas paused , as if having second thoughts , then said , ‘ I do n't know what the fuck you 're doing down there , I do n't know what 's going on , and I do n't really know why I 'm offering this , but I could probably get you a gun , if you 'd feel — I do n't know — safer , or whatever . ’ |
| 21 | The Doctor frowned as if having second thoughts , then stepped aside as promised . |
| 22 | Then she was closing her eyes in an agony of resistance , as if making that hand invisible could prevent what she knew was going to happen . |
| 23 | as if interpreting this remark as veiled disagreement , the newcomer repeated very loudly , looking Agnes straight in the eye : ‘ I detest modesty ! |
| 24 | Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Elsie Mitchell says I stink ! ’ she said , as if opening this topic for theoretical debate . |
| 26 | He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before . |
| 27 | Mr Everitt says the answer is longer sentences , but experts are divided on whether institutionalising young offenders is the best solution … |
| 28 | For the record , trade unions were not seen as being very important , except as giving some sort of ‘ insurance ’ against low wages and loss of employment . |
| 29 | A psychiatrist I spoke to when researching this book advised a list method : when you wake up , if you feel depressed or lonely , write down all the positive things about your life . |
| 30 | Her performance — particularly in response to questions — was not what Derek was used to when viewing such events . |