Example sentences of "[subord] [being] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 2 | In this way a whole host of potential ‘ personnel ’ problems such as lack of motivation/commitment and grievances are prevented , rather than being fuelled by a ‘ closing down ’ of the decision-making process . |
| 3 | The poor internal self-image is reflected outwards onto other people and onto external circumstances rather than being recognised as the diseased part of self . |
| 4 | They were sometimes denied the authority necessary for the fulfilment of their expected role , and it was critically important that they were seen as part of a school 's management team rather than being relegated to the position of mere facilitator . |
| 5 | Being married to even a would-be politician involves many sacrifices which may achieve no more than being landed with a morose husband ( or wife ) hanging round the house for the next four or five years . |
| 6 | The politburo was also retained , rather than being replaced by a party presidium , although in keeping with the proposals for the latter body the politburo was now to include the leaders of the parties in the 15 republics . |
| 7 | With no soil fauna , organic material tends to lie on the surface rather than being incorporated into the sand . |
| 8 | Apart from the use of quarterly data , the main difference in this study is that the current monetary shock is included in the output equation rather than being incorporated in the error term , in what — ADD demonstrate — is an asymptotically efficient estimation procedure . |
| 9 | Farm drainage ditches ensure that water runs directly into streams rather than being filtered through the soil . |
| 10 | The only departure from the established procedure lay in the fact that the copy of the order seems to have been served upon or issued to M. 's solicitors by the court rather than being served by the applicant 's solicitor . |
| 11 | Behaviour is observed in its natural setting , and it is possible to make a study of social process , rather than being limited to the snapshot or series of snapshots of the survey researcher . |
| 12 | We have then no reason to be surprised if the distinction between ascription and association in adjectives is overlooked or mistakenly supposed to be a matter of " nuances of meaning " , rather than being recognized as a systematic variation . |
| 13 | It also reflects the bold decision taken by my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) to cut corporation tax and liberate a range of resources for investments which companies would choose for themselves rather than being pointed in a certain direction by the distorting effect of allowances . |
| 14 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 15 | ‘ The more I see of you , the more I 'm convinced that we have a great deal more in common than being related to a tiresome adolescent . |
| 16 | Yes erm , we 've actually linked with a firm of independent mortgage brokers erm so rather than being tied to a particular building society as most estate agents are erm what they will do is they 'll shop around and tell you which lenders are offering the best terms and particularly good schemes at any one time erm , it 's literally free information they simply phone you up and say get some idea of what your salary is and what your requirements are and then they 'll send through some information for you . |
| 17 | The archosaurs stemmed from the thecodonts , an order with teeth set in sockets rather than being welded to the jaw as with modern-day lizards . |
| 18 | Rather than being rewarded by the social security system , that home owner suffered a disadvantage . |
| 19 | Being struck by light , the Inspectors informed me , was statistically even less probable than being struck by a bolt of lightning . |
| 20 | It is more likely the Goblin will be smashed apart — which although sad is considered a good way to go for a Goblin and infinitely better than being eaten by a peckish troll . |
| 21 | Higher education staff see their academic imprimatur as more important in career terms than being accepted by a commercial publisher . |
| 22 | The children were followed up some four years later at secondary schools so that the possibility could be considered that such differences were attributable to initial differences in their ability and adjustment rather than being caused by the schools ( Rutter et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | Like some of the multinational headhunters and unlike many other British firms , researchers are encouraged to accompany consultants at client briefings and become closely involved in the assignment , rather than being treated as a mixture of secretary , librarian , PA and headhunting dogsbody . |
| 24 | The chief mourner continued to wear a coat with train , together with the mourning hood , but even the manner of wearing the hood changed : draped round the shoulders like a short scarf rather than being worn over the head . |
| 25 | A special protocol allowed the UK to " opt out " of stage three rather than being locked into the process at this stage . |
| 26 | Expenditure patterns should relate to outputs rather than being characterised by a list of resource inputs . |
| 27 | Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ . |
| 28 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 29 | I was also delighted that at last there had been an acknowledgement of the fact that I had a role in what was happening rather than being seen as a bystander in an event that would , all being well , change our lives beyond recognition . |
| 30 | He believed , for example , that Christ had been conceived in the normal way and then sanctified by God rather than being born of a virgin . |