Example sentences of "and [adv] [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mortgages hit family incomes more directly and forcibly than paying more for the Volkswagen or Sony video recorder which would be among the potentially inflationary effects of devaluation . |
| 2 | First you must fill the tank — a relatively idiot-proof exercise , though you must remember to unscrew it carefully and slowly when replenishing it , since the steam is kept under considerable pressure . |
| 3 | And rather than alleviating any muddle we might get into they generally add to it . |
| 4 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 5 | The shots had sounded from the hills somewhere to the north , and rather than wasting time on the main path that rose with the gentle contours of the valley , we took a short cut up the steep , almost sheer , cliff behind the houses . |
| 6 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 7 | Daniel Galvin in London has come up with a treatment that takes only thirty minutes and rather than causing a dramatic change , it softly camouflages grey hair with a subtle , natural-looking colour . |
| 8 | And rather than viewing the party 's triumph in October as an expression of the will of the Russian masses , they see it as the product of manipulation of an unstable situation by an élite group of fanatical revolutionaries . |
| 9 | And rather than asking for commission from suppliers he often buys the weapons himself and sells them at a profit . |
| 10 | And rather than depicting various hues of political opinion , the new murals make an environmental statement . |
| 11 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 12 | And rather than treading the boards … they were teetering two feet above them . |
| 13 | how you can persist in being so utterly incompetent bewilders me , and so while indulging in a little light entertainment in the ZZAP ! offices ( brutally torturing the staff for being human ) I decided it was time I found a solution to the problem . |
| 14 | The parents laughed , showed toys and jogged the baby up and down while wiping his tears . |
| 15 | 1 ) One of those L-shaped perspex photo frames is ideal for holding picture grids upright on the back of the knitting table to save looking up and down while working — just slide the picture into the frame . |
| 16 | The echoes subsided after them , but the under-bailiffs kept their place , patrolling nervously along the edge of the crowd , and all but trampling toes , though the horses sidled delicately away from contact , and shook their ornamented heads in distress at being held so close . |
| 17 | Comparing him to Demosthenes , in whom oratory compensated for a speech impediment , Storr juxtaposes two key scenes : young Winston being pelted with cricket balls and hiding behind a tree , and a slightly older Winston terrifying his friends ( and all but killing himself ) by jumping 30 ft off a bridge . |
| 18 | Stay assertive even when you do n't feel like it and especially when dealing with a submissive or aggressive person . |
| 19 | The proposed Directive sets out a number of principles that the supervisory authorities are to use as guidelines when discharging their functions and especially when granting exemptions to the rules provided in the proposed Directive . |
| 20 | The counsellor as ‘ historian ’ is perhaps an unusual view , but by travelling through an individual 's life history , and especially when making a physical record through family albums , scrapbooks , memorabilia , and genealogies , the counsellor is in effect producing an important autobiography which serves both functions . |
| 21 | However , on the brand checked by The Scotsman , the use of a face shield was only advised while mixing the concentrate , and not while dipping . |
| 22 | I will argue that the best way of seeing research is as an aid to increasing enlightenment and not as providing the answers . |
| 23 | If all the statutory conditions are satisfied , the shareholder is treated as disposing of his shares for capital gains tax purposes and not as receiving a distribution , and this treatment is mandatory . |
| 24 | The Queen had already been informed ; this had been the purpose of his visit to Sandringham the previous day , which had generally been regarded as part of the normal routine , and not as marking any special occasion . |
| 25 | Kashi was directly in point , but the judgments in that case were treated as statements of the then settled practice and not as declaring any restriction upon the powers of the court . |
| 26 | On the other hand , public authorities do not usually commit illegal acts deliberately , and if an atmosphere of opinion were created in which compensation for illegality were seen as being simply compensation for loss and not as carrying any stigma of fault or as being designed to perform the function of deterring illegal conduct , public authorities might be able to put the chance of an award out of their mind in deciding the applicant 's case the second time round . |
| 27 | Section 22 reaffirms the notion that a partnership share is ordinarily to be seen as a proportion of the net distributable assets of the firm available for distribution at the end of the winding-up process and not as comprising a severable share in each of the partnership assets — though , as mentioned in Chapter 10 , the Revenue may take a different line . |
| 28 | An alternative way of examining this example might be to see the individuals as employees or representatives of the organisation , and thus as exercising the rights the organisation had gained for them through the treaty , independent of their member States . |
| 29 | But to celebrate the dignity and resilience of man is itself an honourable ambition and just as moving and true . |
| 30 | Warlock 's Serenade , where the composer rather borrows something of Delius 's style in act of homage , is a difficult piece to bring off , but Falkowski conducts watchfully and sensitively while maintaining a steady but flexible pulse . |