Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is still stable at temperatures in excess of 100 K above T g , the temperature dependence has an exponential form where according to the Eyring rate theory ΔH is the activation enthalpy of viscous flow and is a more representative parameter than the energy . |
| 2 | However , the decline is smaller than the decline in the United States , where smoking among the middle class and among college students is virtually unknown . |
| 3 | Frequent intoxication damages the mouth , oesophagus , stomach and especially the liver , where overloading of the metabolising process can cause hepatitis and cirrhosis . |
| 4 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 5 | Some of the bones had started to develop algal growth in the prevailing damp conditions , although resting on a dry substrate , and this has obscured the surface of the bones to a certain extent ( Fig. 1 . |
| 6 | For example , electronic ignition is a lot simpler than struggling with an old distributor . |
| 7 | Your education or training will have taken you far above the ordinary man although allowing for a proper pride in such an achievement , it does not require you to become intolerant of others not so fortunate . |
| 8 | Manucci 's account of Mughal India is as full of gossip as Bernier 's , but the precarious manner in which he chose to live his life meant that his book has rather more action in it : rather than fussing about the relative merits of Parisian and Mughal architecture , he fights as an artilleryman in the Mughal civil war , has his caravan ambushed by bandits , battles with a pressgang and is finally besieged in a fort on an island in the Indus . |
| 9 | I find knitting from a pattern in the Design Controller even easier than knitting with a mylar sheet . |
| 10 | The speakers hardly whine and Jim Reid now sings with a US accent , rather than mumbling in a Scots one — it all sounds improbably adult-oriented . |
| 11 | ‘ Science ’ became rather more flexible around 1870 , when organised labour looked like becoming a permanent actor on the industrial scene , rather than appearing in an occasional brief walk-on part . |
| 12 | From about 1940 to the 1970s , in this picture , both solar and volcanic influences were acting to cool the Earth , more than compensating for the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide , even with the standard greenhouse effect numbers . |
| 13 | It addresses both health and social services but is disappointing in treating both in traditionally separate fashion ( see Twigg 's section on mainstream services ) rather than grappling with the emerging picture of multi-disciplinary support teams and the strengths and dilemmas of interagency working . |
| 14 | The process of vortex stretching , considered in Section 6.6 , will thus be strongly present — although occurring in a random fashion . |
| 15 | Later we were joined in an organising committee by a number of other people who , although acting in a personal capacity , had through their paid employment or voluntary work direct experience of the issues which were to form the core of the conference . |
| 16 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 17 | But for de Man the difference between literature and criticism is delusive , and writing about a book is no less a process of invention than writing about an imaginary world . |
| 18 | Fourth , decisions are made in sequence rather than according to a grand plan , because the series of searches crucially affects outcomes and because each time a search is concluded another problem is attended to . |
| 19 | But I had no idea how to implement my refusal and , when I began not to eat it was out of apathy and depression , out of a hopelessness concerning myself ( including my body ) , rather than according to a definite plan . |
| 20 | Rather than establishing at a strategic level housing requirements , so that local plans being formulated can weigh those housing requirements against environmental constraints . |
| 21 | While the South Devon Railway was clearly given special help by the DVR Board in year one through an advantageous lease and loco hire charges , it now stands alone as an independent commercial undertaking , albeit operating as a non-profit making trust . |
| 22 | There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground . |
| 23 | It was quicker than pushing through the front door and round to the side again . |
| 24 | Valium use , furthermore , focuses on individual malfunctioning : social and economic problems are dealt with in a framework of a medical model of relief of individual distress , alleviating symptoms rather than operating in a social context which may require familial or wider social change . |
| 25 | Overall , Mr Charkin presented a picture of a man enthralled by present opportunities and future potentialities , rather than yearning for the comfortable certainties of the recent past . |
| 26 | Pregnant women whose babies are overdue may be better off being induced rather than waiting for a spontaneous birth . |
| 27 | On this interpretation , all but the grimmest traffic jam seems better than waiting on a cold , wet platform for the train that does n't arrive . |
| 28 | Korea extends for approximately 600 miles ( 965 km ) from the north-east to the south-west and is about 150 miles ( 240 km ) wide , although narrowing in the northern part of the peninsula to less than 100 miles ( 160 km ) . |
| 29 | These are normally a lot less than paying for the whole aircraft over the same short period , but after the term of the lease the aircraft must be sold , or re-financed . |
| 30 | The patient , however , rather than succumbing to a nosocomial infection , may have an infectious condition when admitted and probably will be anxious about infecting others . |