Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as a Portuguese Euro-minister claims that Britain 's oil may have to be controlled by the authorities in Brussels , Jacques Delors demands another £2bn and ERM-inspired interest rates force thousands on to the dole , how long will it be before one of our major political parties has the guts to campaign against the European Community in its present form , rather than sticking their collective heads in the merde and pretending that everything 's coming up roses ? |
| 2 | An accurate picture of the growth of the business was revealed when the partners — although maintaining their day-to-day management intact — sold their equity to Chatles Barker in 1986 , for an initial consideration of £3.16m. , finally equal to £9m . |
| 3 | ‘ Fox , although allowing me complete control over the physical side of making the picture , were strong enough to prevent me changing the script , ’ he said . |
| 4 | In the past he has used Brazilian mahogany , but he now believes the Amazonian rainforest is more important than replacing his small stock . |
| 5 | Well , making his room fit to live in was just possibly a better way to go about it than writing him twelve-page letters , as dearest Tessa might in time come to realize . |
| 6 | The Western Isles council are presently considering the proposal , but in their present financial straits following the BCCI collapse , they will no doubt be more interested in saving face with jobs than saving their unique landscape heritage . |
| 7 | By the last decade of the eighteenth century there is evidence that the wider powers of the Church , even in rural England , were weakening rather than enhancing its spiritual authority . |
| 8 | Restoring confidence in London 's financial centre will be harder than fixing its bomb-damaged buildings |
| 9 | ( e ) She appeared to her father to be disorientated and , according to the original evidence of Dr. F. , to be ‘ drowsy , detached and not fully compos mentis. ’ ( f ) The matrimonial history of father and mother suggests that Miss T. 's mother is a deeply committed Jehovah 's Witness , who would regard her daughter 's eternal salvation as far more important , and more in her daughter 's best interests , than lengthening her terrestrial life span . |
| 10 | He makes the point that predicting what people will do is always harder than measuring their current behaviour . |
| 11 | If so , why did you do this rather than selling your unwanted items and then buying the items you wanted ? |
| 12 | What would be easier than withdrawing their overseas investments , something that would decimate our markets ? |
| 13 | They argue for the empowerment of subordinated groups , rather than giving them selective access to existing hierarchies ; for the ‘ democratization ’ of the curriculum by reorganizing knowledge to advantage the disadvantaged ; and for special teacher training for teachers to assist girls in resisting the sexist demands of their schools . |
| 14 | Orthodox Protestants doing no more than exercising their democratic right to protest against the paying of tribute to the Antichrist were taken to court and fined . |
| 15 | The General Secretary and the C E C have to be quite clear , the cost will have to met by other means than altering our annual congress . |
| 16 | ‘ We intend to learn from the mistakes of the larger corporations , rather than copying what other people are doing , ’ says Mr Neill . |
| 17 | Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience . |
| 18 | The horticultural overtone is not unattractive ; we ‘ tend ’ the plants in the garden and the term to a gardener implies more than supplying their basic needs . |
| 19 | Try to live in the moment , rather than planning your whole day ahead . |
| 20 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |
| 21 | ‘ Anything but , ’ he replied , as if remembering her dainty appetite when she had dined at his home . |
| 22 | He used his hands flirtatiously , slowly , not flapping or pointing but caressing and floating , as if wiping his flat hand inches from the surface of a painting . |
| 23 | He repeated the word as if giving it due consideration . |
| 24 | Guests at their big Los Angeles show included KURT COBAIN and COURTNEY LOVE , who were so impressed by king of the skins BRENDON O'HARE that they are seriously considering naming their imminent first-born after him ! |
| 25 | The government of Ecuador is seriously considering sending its armed forces on a major exercise in the Galapagos Islands . |
| 26 | His group backed in particular an immediate ban on exports to the Third World — ‘ while accepting our moral responsibility … to take back some of that waste so that it can be recycled or dealt with in an environmentally friendly way which is not possible in the Third World ’ . |
| 27 | It spells out categorically that the golden days when the Government could cut taxes and repay debt while financing its economic policies by taxing North Sea oil and selling state assets have gone for ever . |
| 28 | So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time . |
| 29 | The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had . |
| 30 | Finally , after conjuring up an image of the royal baptism , he exhorts the king to further the cause of catholicism , while praising his recent action of freeing an unnamed captive people . |