Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [pron] [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | When you 've reached the point where you want publication , where seeing your work in print is necessary to you in order to feel you 've made a permanent communication — then you have to begin the work of looking at the market , seeing what is published and by whom . |
2 | This tip does not apply if you are camping at Aviemore however , where imagining your surroundings in daylight is worse than anything Hell can come up with . |
3 | We did little planning other than booking our accommodation in a chain of well positioned youth hostels , but the holiday was memorable . |
4 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
5 | My father was still forced from time to time to act as an interpreter , but from now on he spent much more time at home , rather than meeting his friends in the cafés for a game of cards . |
6 | The authors report the number of occurrences of the surface form done , rather than presenting their information in terms of percentages which give a proportion of possible occurrences . |
7 | BELVILLE : I had rather so than perfecting my Pamela in it . |
8 | Using Dement 's analogy , rather than taking their sleep in one meal , subjects may achieve enough to keep going by snatching " snacks " . |
9 | Jonathon watched it , for a while , with admiration , as if appreciating its impudence in charging them so much . |
10 | Cairn is also considering merging its interests in the United States with Omni Exploration , a quoted American company , where Cairn acquired a 64 p.c. stake in December . |
11 | A hegemonal class may be more or less ingenious at furthering its political interest while maintaining its position in the power bloc ; the working class may make better or worse use of a revolutionary situation . |
12 | Formed in the milieu of Chartism and Owenite ‘ Halls of Science ’ , he remained a man of the extreme left who returned late in life to a militant support of land nationalisation and even socialism , while maintaining his belief in those other characteristic theories of heterodox and plebeian ideology , phrenology and spiritualism ( see p. 319 below ) . |
13 | The company believes the new interface helps users to take advantage of new technologies at their own pace , while protecting their investments in applications , data and training . |
14 | Consideration will be given to seasonal dwellings ( such as the shielings where members of rural communities lived while tending their animals in the upland summer grazing ) and to the temporary nature of much Scottish housing in the past . |
15 | Another victim of the household siren was a Colorado man who was ensnared while cleaning his car in his underpants . |
16 | She can lie on her back like an inverted cockroach while waggling her legs in the air . |
17 | While conceding her part in the enterprise was not as extensive as her paramour accomplice , Judge Kenneth Rubin did say , ‘ Quite clearly you were not a passive person . ’ |
18 | From this point H. B. Condy gradually withdrew from the business while continuing his interests in industrial chemistry , foreign travel , and horse-riding . |
19 | While increasing its yields in chip manufacturing , NEC plans to mount a cost-cutting campaign in its semiconductor plants , including overseas plants such as NEC Semiconductors UK in Scotland , from next March . |
20 | Oliver Gregory , who set High Street trends as co-founder of the Habitat chain , might have slipped on wet grass while carrying his shotgun in the garden of his home at Collingbourne Ducis , Wilts . |
21 | Ferguson celebrated his 21st birthday while negotiating his months in the wilderness and watched Eoin Jess , who has a much sounder temperament , make a sizeable impact on the national coach at the same time . |
22 | We should regard Want , Disease , Ignorance and Squalor as common enemies of all of us , not as enemies with whom each individual may seek a separate peace , escaping himself to personal prosperity while leaving his fellows in their clutches . |
23 | Roberts usually spoke favourably of the development of the army , while recognising its deficiencies in equipment . |
24 | GDA is not a large operation , employing 130 people on two floors , but while planning its opening in July last year it paid close attention to making the restaurant a focal point . |
25 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Theodora finding no difficulty at all in launching straight into theological discussion whilst arranging her fruit in a bowl . |
26 | and then while he was upstairs seeing and helping his wife , then the the stove blew up downstairs , now that might have been the house saving from a real disaster whilst attacking his wife in a minor way , or it might have been pure coincidence . |
27 | Similarly , he celebrates the great house at Allington , which is early Stuart and built next to the road , with the comment : ‘ To be near the village , so as in some way to afford comfort , protection , and patronage , and perhaps also with a view to the pleasantness of neighbourhood for its own inmates , seemed to be the object of a gentleman when building his house in the old days . ’ |
28 | The inability of Mexico to produce ( or to sell ) these materials and components is a fact that Mexican and US maquila facilitators tend to obscure when presenting their case in Mexico ! |
29 | Asclepiodatus can , therefore , be seen as beginning his career in the service of Guntram , for whom he acted as referendary , transferring to Childebert in 593 , and then becoming patricius of Provence under Childebert 's sons . |
30 | ( 2 ) An institution shall not be regarded as conducting its business in a prudent manner unless it maintains or , as the case may be , will maintain net assets which , together with other financial resources available to the institution of such nature and amount as are considered appropriate by the Bank , are — ( a ) of an amount which is commensurate with the nature and scale of the institution 's operations ; and ( b ) of an amount and nature sufficient to safeguard the interests of its depositors and potential depositors , having regard to the particular factors mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 3 ) below and any other factors appearing to the Bank to be relevant . |