Example sentences of "[is] [subord] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 2 | As for the metaphor of ‘ law ’ , its persisting power is evident whenever someone , pondering the determinist thesis that even his own actions are ‘ bound by ’ , are ‘ subject to ’ , ‘ obey ’ the laws of nature , finds himself thinking as though he ought to be conscious of his own resisting will , as he is when submitting to human laws . |
| 3 | But it is when riding in the British Isles — both parts of this island , England Scotland and Wales — that most of us are most vulnerable . |
| 4 | One is unlikely to catch the infection from sleeping in a bed previously occupied by an infested person and there is no need , as there is when dealing with body lice , to take special care with clothing and bed linen . |
| 5 | My rule is when skating on thin ice move fast , so I shall get |