Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of the Coniston ore delivered at the smelters was reckoned at 3s. 6d. a kibble , or more , which figure would improve or worsen depending upon output , and included " getting & shawdring & the carrieage . " |
| 2 | With the chance of winning these prizes it 's well worth booking a professional who is participating in the awards or suggesting that the photographer of your choice does so . |
| 3 | Occupations tend to be upgraded in status , for example , by implying possession of a special skill or suggesting that the work is in a supervisory capacity . |
| 4 | However , the Capital Taxes Office is likely to raise the following " standard " question : what discussions took place between the parties at or before the time of the deed of variation about how the assets which went to the spouse under the deed of variation were to be dealt with by the surviving spouse , ie was there some sort of plan or understanding that the property would be given to the children ? |
| 5 | At the outset I should emphasise that in the proceedings the only question raised is one of law , to be answered on the assumption that the assignments were genuine and valid transactions and that there was no arrangement or understanding that an assignee would hold for the assignor any compensation received by him from the fund . |
| 6 | Like VR as an instrument of state terror , or brainwashing or a virtual jail where you keep someone plugged in . |
| 7 | At stairwells or where glazing or a doorway extends to ceiling height , it may be necessary to terminate the cove at either side . |
| 8 | Not doubting your own sanity or believing that the problems are all your fault . |
| 9 | The rise in price is given by and is therefore greater ( smaller ) than where according as the corporate sector is more labour ( capital ) intensive . |
| 10 | It is the oldest country in the world , where writing and the wheel were invented . |
| 11 | The good impression created by the writing of a first-class release will soon be dissipated if there is no contact for further information , no space for print marks or subbing and no indication that the release has ended and that there are no more continuation sheets . |
| 12 | There is no hiding or lying and no possibility of denial . ’ |
| 13 | Left-wing means this : asking for a fair wage , joining a political organisation , refusing to go into the army or complaining if the security forces kill your husband and torture your sons . |
| 14 | He did n't trouble with small-talk , or asking if the visitors were comfortable , or enjoying their stay . |
| 15 | Over the last few years I have also complained to the Press Council on a number of occasions , about various newspapers using such terms as ‘ Gay Plague ’ , or saying that the disease was spread by whispered conversations , or for exaggerating the amount of money spent by local authorities on gay issues . |
| 16 | Do n't you think he 's , he 's asking to much or , or saying that the peasants are doing too much . |
| 17 | Only a few months earlier he had , as she was soon to discover , been involved in a plot to murder her secretary and musician David Rizzio , believing or half-believing that the two of them were lovers . |
| 18 | Is the Home Office alleging or claiming that an emergency has arisen since the Conservative party conference , that the Bill must be completed in one day and that it is inconceivable that it could be improved in Committee ? |
| 19 | Important factors were : Farmers had no way of knowing or discovering that the seed was defective . |
| 20 | Is this just the state having been convinced by the academics ' own rhetoric about themselves , or hoping that the academics will actually be prepared to keep their own house in order ( for instance , by closing down a course of their own volition ) ? |
| 21 | The second half of the project is concerned really with how on earth we get such program to work , such programs are very complicated , they interact in various odd ways , and getting the bugs out , getting the problems out or debugging as the jargon has it , is a really serious problem and we hope to make some advance on the problem of erm developing programs for such distributed multi-processor systems . |
| 22 | There was no intention of converting Purley Depôt to a bus garage , as although of a more regular shape , its only entrance was on a busy part of the main Brighton Road and over the years there had been a number of near misses with other traffic , when trams were entering or leaving and the local press had conducted a campaign against its dangerous location . |
| 23 | It is then developed in seven statements to a climactic definition of the nature of the fire of love ; they are brought to a triumphant conclusion by juxtaposing a negative statement with its positive form to indicate ways in which the third degree of singular love fulfils and transcends the longing of the earlier stages : The phrase from The Song of Songs ( 5:2 ) which heralds the arrival of the beloved , here conveys a sense of a transformed newly awakened consciousness where longing and the unquiet ego are quenched . |
| 24 | You should aim to avoid inducing them to break their contracts by walking out without either giving that notice or agreeing that the notice period be shortened . |
| 25 | Despite those difficulties , it is still easier than proving that the expert has made a " mistake " of sufficient gravity to invalidate the decision . |
| 26 | The new deviance writers went further than suggesting that the appearance of crime ( on which positivists built their theories ) was in fact the product of the criminal justice system . |
| 27 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 28 | The proceedings featured acrimonious debate , but the congress ended with the endorsement of a reformist manifesto , albeit affirming that the party would remain Marxist rather than go the social democratic way of other former ruling East European communist parties as they prepared , like the BCP , to compete in free elections . |
| 29 | For if ‘ good ’ is the label for a property rather than the expression of an impulse why should noting its presence have anything more essential to do with an inclination to promote it , than noting that a wall-paper is blue has to do with choosing it ? |
| 30 | She believed in love , but she had been too impatient , her eagerness to experience it persuading her to believe that what she had felt went deeper than liking and a mild physical attraction . |