Example sentences of "[subord] being [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With no soil fauna , organic material tends to lie on the surface rather than being incorporated into the sand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Farm drainage ditches ensure that water runs directly into streams rather than being filtered through the soil . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rather than being rewarded by the social security system , that home owner suffered a disadvantage . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A special protocol allowed the UK to " opt out " of stage three rather than being locked into the process at this stage . |
| 14 | The corporate ideology is public service broadcasting : this entails the provider deciding what the purchaser ought to listen to or watch , rather than being led by the latter 's clear preference . |
| 15 | Both chapters warrant inclusion as overviews at the start of the book rather than being buried in the middle of text . |
| 16 | All works of art have the inalienable right to remain in their original abode rather than being shipped around the world for display . |
| 17 | For the first time since independence the opposition alliance included Malays , whose dominance was enshrined in the constitution , rather than being restricted to the Chinese and Indian communities . |
| 18 | It is better to recognise that situation in good time rather than being caught on the hop . ’ |
| 19 | The strategy which controls the frequency , duration and destination is usually set up on a systems availability base rather than being controlled by the quantity of data to be transferred and its " design delay " costs . |
| 20 | Rather than being confined to the church , therefore , Puritan religious life also focused on the household and various voluntary forms of public worship . |
| 21 | Because keyboards are played by depressing the keys , the keys of the Streicher piano have a balance pin somewhere in the middle , rather than being hinged at the end . |
| 22 | You need a lot of time to yourself in order to explore your dreams , rather than being pinned to the work place . |
| 23 | Frankie could imagine only one thing worse than being counted amongst the ‘ baldies ’ . |
| 24 | Yet it is hard to think of a worse ordeal for a political leader than being urged by the party of which he is head to sever relations with his wife . |
| 25 | Some species of these single-celled creatures even select and collect tiny grains of sand which , rather than being used in the ‘ parent 's ’ outer shell are collected together internally and passed on to the ‘ offspring ’ when the single-celled organism divides . |
| 26 | He cruised along contentedly on the bridle until being sent into the lead a quarter of a mile out and then galloped on resolutely to win by one and a half lengths . |
| 27 | But he led the field a merry dance until being overhauled inside the final furlong . |
| 28 | He was used as substitute — scoring against Manchester United — until being named in the starting line-up for the Villa game . |
| 29 | Douce 111 is a fifteenth-century manuscript that seems to have remained in France until being obtained by the nineteenth-century collector , Douce , and it has been deduced that the Middleton manuscript was taken as plunder from the French town of Laval during the later stages of the Hundred Years ' War , between March 1428 and September 1429 . |
| 30 | Even if it were to be deduced that there is an outstanding shortfall in the HP4 supply , this appeal , while being determined in the context of policy HP4 , would require to be consistent with the specific terms of policy HP6 , which refers to non-Local Plan proposals . |