Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These also made for easier reference with page turning being easier than unwinding a scroll to find your place . |
| 2 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 3 | Involuntarily she found herself going out on to the balcony for air , rather than clearing a space to sit . |
| 4 | Luke was still staring at her as if expecting a rabbit to emerge from her sleeve at any moment . |
| 5 | Its smooth ivory planes suggested beauty without exactly expressing it , as if awaiting a stimulus to burst into life . |
| 6 | Microprocessor-controlled rows of lamps can help learners with number work ( for example , in binary ) , while using a computer to collect temperature data , for instance , and present it ready for a graph is also of value . |
| 7 | Berri announced his decision while addressing a rally to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the disappearance in Libya of Amal 's founder , Imam Moussa Sadr . |
| 8 | Q : While saving a report to drive A using DataEase , I missed out the colon after the ‘ A ’ . |
| 9 | In local government in Rome , Edmondo Angele , the councillor with responsibility for Heritage , was arrested for alleged extortion while negotiating a contract to improve the navigability of the Tiber ; a building firm called Gruppo Acqua grew from nothing in 1973 to become a multi-national which recently won a contract in Moscow to fight pollution . |
| 10 | In 1919 , while preparing a stunt to fly under the Arc de Triomphe , he was killed in collision with telephone wires under circumstances that suggested suicide . |
| 11 | While adjusting a spotlight to illuminate the perineal area take care not to throw your face into shadow , or lip-reading will become impossible . |
| 12 | Always remember to use water of identical make-up and temperature when using a bath-treatment to prevent unnecessary shock . |
| 13 | Taking anti-depressants to get you over a hump like this makes the same sort of sense as using a crutch to get around on while a broken leg heals . |
| 14 | She investigated both historical and research background as well as using a questionnaire to study the current picture in Edinburgh Schools . |
| 15 | The proembryoes can be frozen and stored , and their availability improves the chance of success of in vitro fertilizations as well as allowing a woman to have another child a year or two after the first . |
| 16 | In addition , suicide attempts were usually regarded as implying a wish to die and the existence of mental illness , while less acceptable reasons , such as manipulation of others , were infrequently considered . |
| 17 | On the whole they are best regarded as expressing a desire to maintain and demonstrate right relations between God , man and his neighbour . |
| 18 | When investigating a transformation to promote symmetry in a single batch , we first examine the midpoint summaries — the median , the midquartile , and the midextreme — to see if they tend to increase or decrease . |
| 19 | It is important when evaluating a belief to weed out of consideration any form of pretence or hypocrisy associated with the people claiming to hold the belief . |
| 20 | But the party changed its position when supporting a move to send the mayor and his deputy to Thiepval to pay tribute to the members of the Orange Order who died during the two world wars . |
| 21 | This applies especially when teaching a dog to sit , because this is quite a relaxed posture and any distractions will upset the dog 's concentration . |
| 22 | Hari shook her head in fear and looked around her as though expecting a solution to present itself . |
| 23 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 24 | It is difficult to contemplate that a mortgage deed would ever be construed as entitling a mortgagee to charge against the mortgaged property , or to require the mortgagor to pay , all costs charges and expenses even if improperly or unreasonably incurred or improper or unreasonable in amount unless the mortgage deed had expressly in terms so provided . |
| 25 | THE Labour leader of Darlington Borough Council is reported ( Echo March 4 ) as defending a decision to snub a delegation from the South African government visiting the North-East . |
| 26 | In some ways it serves the same purpose as having a service to recognize the end of mourning . |
| 27 | The models of teaching it commended were expected to be influential , and the Authority saw itself as having a duty to provide a clear lead on the direction and character of primary classroom practice . |
| 28 | The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this , namely , that Parliament thus defined has , under the English constitution , the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . |
| 29 | Parliamentary sovereignty , he wrote , meant that Parliament had " the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognized by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . " |
| 30 | Applications to the panel by auditors might be equally rare , since these could be seen as acknowledging a failure to establish an effective ( and durable ) professional relationship . |