Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is particularly attractive to firms with strong institutional placing power ; retail firms prefer to sell at issue price , retaining full fees as profit , rather than selling at the lower fixed reoffer price set by the lead manager . |
| 3 | Although running at the same as the national Children In Need Appeal , Cash for Kids is organised locally by Radio Clyde , and the money is used to provide special Christmas treats or presents for needy children throughout West Central Scotland . |
| 4 | He stood with his back to the fire , dominating the room and as if trying at the same time to dominate Sarella 's thoughts . |
| 5 | Belinda listened on tenterhooks to one side of the discussion as Tom somehow managed to present his case forcefully while driving at the same time . |
| 6 | The most common drill — and this is even practised by the better players who may be struggling with their groundstrokes — is to put targets within 60–90cm ( 2–3ft ) of the baseline and inside tramline and think in terms of rallying while aiming at the targeted areas . |
| 7 | Thus Houston attempts to think through the difference which television 's textual specificity presents to theories of the psychoanalytic and semiotic subject , while recognizing at the same time the interrelationship between that specificity and the specificities of institution and viewing . |
| 8 | On this issue therefore , I find it curious that so many people can become excited at the humanitarianism of the young Marx while choosing at the same time to ignore the inhumanity of the more mature Marx . |
| 9 | The spy , referred to in the report only by his US code name " Donald F. " , had been recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) in 1961 while working at the Soviet mission to the United Nations in New York . |
| 10 | Keenan had been kidnapped on April 11 , 1986 , while working at the American University of Beirut . |
| 11 | The complication was in saying the newly minted lines at the right side of the mirror whilst arriving at the same place each time . |
| 12 | When Judith Hollman , whilst working at the Royal College as a model , saw Minton again , she sensed that there was now between them very little rapport . |
| 13 | Alford was equally staunch in championing the rights of the Commons against the Lords , whether protesting at the Upper House 's attempts to control the negotiations over the Scottish union or complaining against their insistence on members ' ‘ standing so long bare ’ at conferences . |
| 14 | Audiences might have enjoyed reinterpretations , as when Odling at the same period suggested that phlogiston was an anticipation of the idea of chemical energy , rather than a non-substance . |
| 15 | Frequently it is found that an accident is the result of a combination of adverse circumstances , each of which is normally containable but when occurring at the same time can lead to disaster . |
| 16 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 17 | would say that there were no differences in mortality rates when looking at the various classifi classifications and control . |
| 18 | Nowhere is this more obvious than when looking at the competitive reactions to the acquisition of other companies . |
| 19 | We always have to be aware of the kinetics of weathering reactions when looking at the mineralogical composition of weathering profiles . |
| 20 | When looking at the local underbelly of the centre initiative at Powick , it was seen that the provision of more than one psychiatric hospital within a district , after 1982 , meant certain death for one or other institution . |
| 21 | Kelly , for example , can hardly control his incredulity when looking at the mythological world of demons . |
| 22 | Whilst we talk freely about a " car " when looking at the thousands of bits ( or entities , in CAD terms ) there is no one part that contains the " true essence of a car " . |
| 23 | you could median split them at whatever the medium was and then you 've got two groups to compare erm because it usually looks quite nice if you 've got something comparative as well as looking at the average sort of , you know , pattern of responses on the questionnaire . |
| 24 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 25 | The British champion jockey was found guilty of two offences when riding at the Vaal last Thursday . |
| 26 | The first are the rich and well-born , the other the mass of the people " , Hamilton was reported as saying at the Federal Convention in 1787 . |
| 27 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 28 | Bregawn swept over the third fence from home and made his way into the straight , Pursued by Captain John ( who had lost ground when blundering at the third last ) , Wayward Lad and Silver Buck . |
| 29 | When arriving at the foreign post , will he or she be in a less senior capacity than in the home country because of unfamiliarity with local customs and methods of working ? |
| 30 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |