Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will only get help if they can not easily realise savings of the person who died to pay for the bill , or if paying for the bill brought their own family savings below £500 . |
| 2 | I have discovered that during periods of withdrawal from normal mental activity — during meditation , or while hovering on the borders of sleep , for instance — it is sometimes possible to look right into that ‘ teeming womb ’ and release its contents prematurely . |
| 3 | The reading undertaken while under stress — while waiting for the dentist , for example , or while sitting in a plane during turbulence , or when fatigued at the end of the day — is usually of this order . |
| 4 | The children performed these tasks either silently or while engaging in a task designed to suppress their vocalisation of the word names . |
| 5 | A gamble or a bet or wager was a way of life to the men of the village , and often a wager would be made at work or whilst drinking in the local . |
| 6 | Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage . |
| 7 | Bernstein argues that some school subjects have very tight definitions of knowledge , and clear boundary lines marking what is considered relevant ‘ knowledge ’ and what is either considered not relevant or as belonging to another subject . |
| 8 | But they see policy-level bureaucrats as either directly controlled by an external business elite or as acting in an implicitly biased way to defend the social interests of people with similar backgrounds , incomes and interests to themselves . |
| 9 | Because of maintaining an apparently different brand of theism , Hinduism is often viewed by those whose main contact is with the Near Eastern religions either as atheist or as believing in a different god or gods . |
| 10 | Children with low comprehension scores but high expressive scores are seen as having possible emotional problems , or as suffering from echolalia . |
| 11 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 12 | They will also clarify whether such difficulties are best seen as an exaggerated form of more normal occurrences , or as arising in a different way from the mistakes made by normal people . |
| 13 | Furthermore , adjustment to a new role in life may be best assisted by loose-knit networks , as when a mature woman leaves the domestic sphere to become a university student , or when adjusting to her newly divorced and single status . |
| 14 | Demonstrate in talking and writing about literature that they are developing their own views and can support them when appropriate by reference to the text , eg in making judgements of characters and their actions , or when building upon those characters and events in their own writing . |
| 15 | In addition , loss of acuity of the senses — particularly impaired sight and hearing — will reduce an elderly person 's awareness of danger , for example when crossing roads or when cooking in the kitchen . |
| 16 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 17 | In an open letter to members of parliament in 1991 the Metropolitan Authorities Recruitment Agency ( METRA ) which has led the debate on agism said : ‘ Many people of all ages face unfair discrimination at work or when looking for a job , simply because of their date of birth . |
| 18 | Later you can do the same thing when walking along or when sitting in a car ( but only if you are the passenger please — do n't try it while driving ! ) |
| 19 | Support and self-help groups are also getting started for people from ethnic minorities who often find themselves more isolated than anyone else when ill or when caring for someone who is dependent . |
| 20 | Therefore , while they may be independent in their own homes , dependence on others may be necessary in other settings , for example when out of doors or when travelling by public transport . |
| 21 | This can be useful during the occasional compulsory attendance at official Indonesian functions , or when waiting in government offices for filming permits to be granted ; but there have been dinner parties , at which he was the guest of honour , when he was actually thought to have died at table . |
| 22 | The practical implication of these facts is that careful preparation may be necessary for industrial salespeople , either when selling to new companies or when selling to existing customers where the nature of the product is different . |
| 23 | Make sure to articulate these clearly , alternating your plucking fingers except where raking from the 1st to 2nd strings ( notes E to A and D to A ) . |
| 24 | In practical terms this means that although letter-writing to governments regarding prisoners continues to be the cornerstone of the campaign work other methods have been introduced to enhance the effectiveness of the hundreds of thousands of letters that Amnesty members write each year . |
| 25 | In Scotland there have been fatal aircraft accidents to private aircraft where the occupants were killed in their leisure time rather than while working in their normal occupation , and the procurator fiscal has decided not to take the matter on to the formal fatal accidents inquiry because he has satisfied himself that it was a matter of accidental death in an aircraft accident without suspicious circumstances . |
| 26 | A French general , several times in the line at Verdun , recalled to the author that while marching through the devastated zone his soldiers never sang ; ‘ and you know French soldiers sing a lot ’ . |
| 27 | The truth is that while batting in the indoor nets he was struck on the toe by a ball from paceman Chris Lewis and an X-ray over the weekend revealed he had indeed suffered a cracked bone . |
| 28 | An additional problem is that while concentrating on the keyboard when using an interactive program the user may miss important happenings on the screen . |
| 29 | Suppose that while shopping in a crowded store I become temporarily separated from a friend and in reply to his anxious call shout back " I am here " . |
| 30 | I wish to notify other divers that while diving in Cornwall earlier this year , my buddy and I were charged £2 each for just walking down the slip for a shore dive . |