Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1931 B minor Sonata is also far superior to a later version from 1933 ( although the space between Cortot 's various recordings was often narrow , his performances , while retaining their essential outward characteristics , varied in detail , biased this way or that according to the heat and inspiration of the moment ) with a ravishing second subject in the opening Allegro maestoso and a central quaver flow in the Largo in which melody and counter-melody swell and recede like some magical sea . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The children performed these tasks either silently or while engaging in a task designed to suppress their vocalisation of the word names . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! ) |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | So Eliot , in ‘ ode ’ , a poem dealing with a tortured wedding night , has a protagonist apparently lacking in all inspiration except that coming from the ‘ bubbling ’ of a river described as ‘ mephitic ’ . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | An additional problem is that while concentrating on the keyboard when using an interactive program the user may miss important happenings on the screen . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | The Memorandum on the Mental Health Act 1983 ( 1987 ) issued by the then Department of Health and Social Security states , at paragraph 289 , that whilst calling upon the assistance of the police should be kept to a minimum , ‘ the police should always be informed at once of the escape or absence without leave of a patient who is considered dangerous or who is subject to restriction on discharge under Part III of the Act . ’ |
| 23 | Children under 14 are not permitted in bars except when passing through the bar to get from/to another part of the premises . |
| 24 | MAS should ensure that when acting for the vendor the contents of the Information memorandum and any other correspondence , it and the rest of KADVISERG may have had with the purchaser is disclosed in the contract . |
| 25 | I knew little about him , except that when riding beside the Duke of Wellington his right knee was hit by one of the last shots fired that day . |
| 26 | You tend to find that you become accustomed to the timing on your local water and that when sailing in a different place it takes a while to learn the timing of a different wave pattern . |
| 27 | Remember that when knitting with the lili buttons , it is important to have an EVEN number of needles in work , otherwise the lili buttons will select the same needles every row and the result will be a mess and a jam . |
| 28 | One other point worth mentioning is that when dealing with a lease of the whole of a building , the landlord and the tenant will have to consider whether the airspace above the building is to be included or excluded from the demise , as without specific reference it seems that a lease of a building will include the airspace above it , at least to such height as may be necessary for the use and enjoyment of the land and any structure upon it . |
| 29 | The leading authority was the House of Lords case of Re W ( 1971 ) AC 682 where it was held that when dealing with the question of withholding consent , the test was reasonableness , not culpability or indifference , and although the child 's welfare per se was not the test , it was relevant . |
| 30 | In fact , the company claims that when running on a Unix workstation , MainWin 's graphics performance ( its Windows display , scrolls bars and menus ) is the equivalent of Windows running on an Intel Corp 80486 box . |