Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [art] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The often-repeated criticism made of elite and traditional theorists that they assume what they should be proving — namely the distribution of power — may from this perspective be seen to miss the point of elite analysis , since it is not typically concerned with the question of whether the minority that exercises power is a significant proportion of the entire population . |
| 2 | For example , the final black-hole state is independent of whether the body that collapsed was composed of matter or antimatter , and whether it was spherical or highly irregular in shape . |
| 3 | If your engine is using a lot of oil it sounds as if a replacement or rebuild is required . |
| 4 | Folly stared unseeing at the crumpled sheets , as if the bed that had so recently harboured their ecstasy might now prove the anodyne to pain . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home . |
| 6 | It is as if the molecules that form the flowers and leaves have been twisted and re-assembled into lovely globes , the nurseries of these insects . |
| 7 | It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world . |
| 8 | His fingers closed about the pipes and they were translucent , as if the substance that ran in his veins might be light instead of blood . |
| 9 | But from the 1870s , following what was seen as a decline in standards in the 1850s and 1860s , a new confidence in the moralistic ethic can be detected , as if the hesitations that had governed earlier attempts were cast off . |
| 10 | as if the atrocity that came before was necessary to validate the atrocity that will come after . |
| 11 | It was as if she had come to the wrong place , as if the magic that shrivelled Cinderella 's full satins to limp rag had breathed over this place , enchantment vanished in the wood , only the old dank trees still and always there . |
| 12 | She could feel the heat of him , the hardness of muscle that lay hidden beneath the elegant cut of his dinner-jacket , and all at once there was a subtle shift in the atmosphere , as if the anger that burned between them could , in the flicker of a heartbeat , become something even more primitive … |
| 13 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 14 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 15 | Mm yeah and apart from that the bloke that sold it must have known cos he |
| 16 | He was sick of living out the legend of the Tech-Green wunderkind , sick too of the work he was involved in and the knowledge that went with it . |
| 17 | He tried to remember what they used to listen to but the names that came were too embarrassingly ancient to be spoken in public , even to William . |