Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin 's ( 1985 , p. 142 ) work on bringing up handicapped children indicates that grandparents often buy necessities such as food and clothing , and this can be vital to the finances of a household where having a handicapped child creates additional expense . |
| 2 | In England , by contrast , although there were some villages where having a widowed parent in the house ‘ was very much the ordinary , expected thing ’ at a certain stage in life , already by the late middle ages it was not the normal pattern . |
| 3 | Although using a tinted background may not be the traditional mode for watercolour , you can achieve unique colour effects and moods . |
| 4 | Other instances of racial prejudice can be found in the fact that the church used by the black community is used by the white men as a gambling den in the week although using a white church for such purposes would not be allowed , if even thought of . |
| 5 | This is usually more valuable than generating an allowable loss for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 6 | Rather than suggesting a different incentive system , which would enable the agency to maintain at least some timber harvesting in many of the forests on the list , the agency is deliberately limiting its options . |
| 7 | There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised . |
| 8 | It is a wonderful thing to see , and somehow gives you a greater thrill than seeing a conventional float slide under the surface . |
| 9 | In some schools , at any rate , this seems to have performed a rhetorical function in conforming to the guidelines , rather than producing a realistic statement of an established and developing provision . |
| 10 | just as when reading a favourite novel , we create the people and places described as we see them , so we draw on our own images and imagination to enrich our inner world , rather than accepting an unknown intruder — the voice on the tape . |
| 11 | This is much slower than using a desk-top publishing system , but enforces consistent formatting and , some day , should assist in putting the journals into a database so that the information can be accessed easily . |
| 12 | Such ‘ elastic ’ connection lines make drawing box charts such as flow diagrams , hierarchy charts , PERT diagrams etc. much easier than using a normal drawing package . |
| 13 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 14 | Using two Stanley Height Reducers made the task of ‘ bringing down the ceiling ’ much simpler than using a conventional timber batten . |
| 15 | Operating the 238S requires a separate mixer , which I actually find easier than using an all-in-one machine because working alone and trying to remember complicated bounces and mixes and all the things which have to go on tape is hard enough , so routing signals through the desk seems to make more sense to an already cluttered mind . |
| 16 | This is far better than opening a little airbrake , then some more , and then finally having to use full airbrake for the landing in order to avoid overshooting into the far boundary . |
| 17 | Although adopting an integrated problem based course may be one way of achieving elaboration , Dr Coles believes that such radical approaches are not essential . |
| 18 | The only viable alternative is to ‘ mimagree ’ otherwise , to mime agreement in such a way as to contest subtly the authority of the language used rather than launching a direct challenge to male discursive authority . |
| 19 | Buying two wooden spoons can be more fun at this time than purchasing an expensive set of china in later years . |
| 20 | On the other hand , my opinion is that , efficacious though it proved to be , there are better methods of inducing scepticism than applying a hard rubber , wielded in the sleeve of a gown , at high speed to the side of the head . |
| 21 | Nothing is more frustrating than scuffing a newly-painted window sill or just-fitted upvc windows with electric cables or hoses , when they are passed through the window into the garden . |
| 22 | Our proposal is a modest one : we are trying to implement a more just system rather than tackling a great injustice . |
| 23 | This would not only save money and help to curb the growth of the world 's stocks of separated plutonium ; it might also help to persuade Russia to dispose of its plutonium , rather than weaving an economic pipedream around it . |
| 24 | Rather than adopting a defensive posture towards the supranational integration that he saw gaining ground , he tried to seize the initiative by developing European cooperation in directions acceptable to France and his nationalist views of French interests . |
| 25 | The local branches of the Green Party , CPRE and FoE , and the newly-formed Glaven Valley Protection Group , all oppose a bypass ; but rather than adopting a negative NIMBY position they propose improvements to the existing road , which they believe would deal effectively with the hazards . |
| 26 | Rather than adopting a full-blooded process model in which the content of the curriculum might be indistinguishable from the activity of enquiry , schools have tended to see the teaching of a separate study skills course ( albeit sometimes under another name ) , which then facilitates the accessing of content for existing curriculum subjects , as the appropriate path to follow . |
| 27 | Learning a language , as Halliday ( 1984 ) and Hymes ( 1971 ) amongst others have pointed out , involves more than acquiring a grammatical system that will generate well-formed sentences . |
| 28 | Although addressing a different problem , Ruttan ( 1982 ) along with Boserup ( 1981 ) both put forward the idea of ‘ induced innovation ’ as the means by which research and development of agricultural technology is directed to address appropriate problems both by the state and farmers themselves . |
| 29 | That 's about the only difference between writing a short answer question than writing a long answer question , is that the long answer is a , is a good idea to have a diagram . |
| 30 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |