Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At stairwells or where glazing or a doorway extends to ceiling height , it may be necessary to terminate the cove at either side . |
| 2 | The rise in price is given by and is therefore greater ( smaller ) than where according as the corporate sector is more labour ( capital ) intensive . |
| 3 | It is the oldest country in the world , where writing and the wheel were invented . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Despite those difficulties , it is still easier than proving that the expert has made a " mistake " of sufficient gravity to invalidate the decision . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Expert clauses which set out the procedure in more detail than providing that the parties have the right to make representations are probably not very helpful . |
| 12 | Coppicing and laying rather than flailing provided a better stock-proof boundary which would also benefit wildlife . |
| 13 | It is cheaper than telephoning and a lot of the time it works . |
| 14 | As the Press Commission put it in 1977 ( p. 149 ) , ‘ Rather than saying that the press has other business interests , it would be truer to argue that the press has become a subsidiary of other interests ’ . |
| 15 | This is even stronger than saying that the dynamics of the system determine the behaviour of the units , as causes determine their effects , because ‘ functional ’ presumably implies something about the purpose of the states ' behaviour in achieving equilibrium , thus going beyond mere causal determination . |
| 16 | Some historians go no further than saying that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; but others have stated that Molla Fenari was appointed Mufti in the year 828/1424–5 . |
| 17 | The functionalist method which he so strenuously championed amounted , in fact , to little more than acknowledging that every custom or institution , however strange and bizarre , served some contemporary purpose . |
| 18 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 19 | Rather than assuming that a few corrupt workers steal large amounts , it would seem more reasonable to contend that many , if not the majority , of employees regularly take small amounts . |
| 20 | There 's nothing worse than learning that an act has been signed somewhere else and you never even got a chance to hear them . |
| 21 | There 's nothing worse than learning that an act has been signed somewhere else and you never even got a chance to hear them |
| 22 | However , by February 1991 , this deficit was shown to be rising rather than falling and the government introduced austerity measures [ see p. 38113 ] . |
| 23 | The ‘ individual ’ approach adopts the former stance , always starting from the individually assessed needs of each child and trying to produce a ‘ match ’ between child and task ( albeit recognising that the modifications made may well have a beneficial spin-off effect for other children in the class ) . |
| 24 | Counsel for the defenders submitted essentially that the Lord Ordinary had erred in law in concluding that the declaration in the application form was part of a contract between the pursuers and the Alliance Building Society to which the provisions of the act applied , rather than concluding that the declaration was non-contractual in character and accordingly not caught by the provisions of the act so far as applicable to Scotland . |
| 25 | Even forgetting the music , there 's nothing more soul destroying than discovering that the constituent parts of the lean , mean Rock'n'Roll machine you worshipped as a kid have subsequently developed beer bellies , a penchant for incontinence wear and an alarming tendency to part their hair Jack Charlton- style an inch and a half above the right ear . |
| 26 | What could be more devastating than discovering that the one man you relied on has blown your world apart ? |
| 27 | Yes , it boils down to a lot more than ensuring that the innocents are clothed and fed . |
| 28 | If remembering that the Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus keeps doctrinal formulation authentic , the same may be said for experience . |
| 29 | The doctor looked at Patrick seriously , as if wondering whether a security director could grasp a metaphysical truth . |
| 30 | His horse , Contralto , was dazedly looking around himself , as if wondering whether the grass covering his fetlocks was real or illusory . |