Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a bright moon , headlights were kept off — otherwise they remained on only when driving on the road alone . |
| 2 | ‘ I like to lay in the paint with a knife and draw into the wet paint with a brush , especially when working on a portrait , ’ Kyffin Williams told Julian Halsby in this special interview for The Artist |
| 3 | I like to lay in the paint with a knife and draw into the wet paint with a brush , especially when working on a portrait . |
| 4 | They too have children , with similar needs , but they are allocated much less because , rather than staying on the dole , their parents wished to return to college and get qualifications to get them back into work . |
| 5 | You have more of the ‘ good times ’ and less of the routine day to day jobs when your child can get bored and irritable — I think it does a child good to get to know and trust somebody different , such as a childminder or a nanny , rather than depending on his or her mother entirely for everything . |
| 6 | With such support , pupils have often sorted out ideas and ended by convincing each other , rather than depending on their teacher 's ideas . |
| 7 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 8 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 9 | The company is expected to tout the chip as providing the industry 's best dollar/pound-per-MIPS rather than competing on absolute performance . |
| 10 | The National Democratic Front ( NDF ) , a front organization for both the CPP and the NPA , had offices in the Netherlands , and had insisted on an overseas venue , rather than meeting on Philippine soil , partly out of concern for the security of its negotiators . |
| 11 | Rather than remarking on seasonal changes in the surrounding foliage , the majority of New Yorkers whom I met would relish a detailed discussion about the subtle fluctuations in Real Estate Value . |
| 12 | But in either case , are n't you still declaring something rather than reporting on anything ? |
| 13 | Mr Bewick was criticised strongly yesterday by Mr Sells for carrying out too many operations rather than reflecting on the ethics involved . |
| 14 | An Olympic movement looking ahead rather than reflecting on it 's noble past was how one I O C Committee member described Atlanta 's win over Athens , Bobby Charlton part of Manchester 's bid was n't so sure . |
| 15 | Spotting rather than barring on tail is a useful pointer , as is contrast between heavily spotted underwing and pale wing tips . |
| 16 | For example , it may be better to provide a schizophrenia sufferer with personal transportation to enable him or her to reach a day centre rather than laying on transportation . |
| 17 | Someone paid them good money , a lot of money , to do that — this so-called ‘ friend ’ they mentioned — so if I were you I 'd be trying to work out who he is rather than getting on my soapbox . |
| 18 | They implement decisions rather than deciding on the overall direction of a company ; they do not have effective control over the company they work for . |
| 19 | The history of the past 30 years in brewing has been dominated by the emergence of a handful of giant national companies — Bass , Allied , Whitbread , GrandMet/Watney , Courage , and Scottish & Newcastle — driven by a need to maximise profit rather than concentrating on high quality products that also generate a good return . |
| 20 | However , they are not always offered study leave or proper in-service training to achieve these qualifications , and so they tend to use school hours to do their own work rather than concentrating on their students . |
| 21 | From a slightly different perspective , there has been a shift in emphasis among some councils towards seeking to influence the wider environments within which they find themselves rather than concentrating on direct service provision . |
| 22 | Pain and its Conquest concentrates on perception cognition and emotion , and the ways of manipulating these by verbal and intellectual means rather than concentrating on the more traditional methods of control by cutting , by blocking or the more recent manipulating of existing control systems by chemical or electrical stimulation . |
| 23 | It has left society with the obligation to give much more serious thought to adjusting the street environment rather than concentrating on adjusting the behaviour of the user . |
| 24 | From the collection as a whole there emerges above all a Modigliani who was a most able draughtsman , a Modigliani much maligned by the critics who have unfortunately let themselves be led astray by legends rather than concentrating on the work . |
| 25 | Rather than concentrating on a bottom line which shows the profit attributable to shareholders , the value added statement is concerned with how much value the entity has added through its operations and how that added value has been distributed to the many resource providers . |
| 26 | Mr Godfray also suggested that the constructive approach would be to stress to MPs the importance of books in education and training — two of the government 's pet issues — rather than concentrating on an anti-VAT message , which might fall on rather deafer ears . |
| 27 | They seem determined to spend their community charge payers ' money on the most irrelevant and frivolous projects rather than concentrating on the real problems that the hon. Gentleman described . |
| 28 | The government , recognizing this problem , tries to gain an overall impression of the growth of money supply rather than concentrating on one measure alone . |
| 29 | But without the sort of big-money sponsorship that goes to the men 's game the women are having to spend precious time fund-raising rather than concentrating on their playing . |
| 30 | For some writers concerned with English language teaching , the notion of rhythm is a more practical matter of making a sufficiently clear difference between strong and weak syllables , rather than concentrating on a rigid timing pattern , as I suggest at the end of 14.1 . |