Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pers pn] [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a minute or two earlier you were saying things like : ‘ It 's just a sort of a , a sort of a , a , a , a question of as it were sort of behaving sort of , well , for want of a better word , decently , sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It almost sounds as if we 're 58% in charge of what we 're doing . |
| 3 | Old hands wear leather gloves , old heads wear fur hats , as if they are badges of office : we hunt , we trap , we tame . |
| 4 | In a pendentive method of construction the triangular spaces between the square section and the circular base of the hemisphere are built as if they are parts of a lower and larger dome so that their section is like that of an arch carried across the diagonal of the square space to be covered . |
| 5 | It , they , they certainly look as if they are sort of intended er to heat things up . |
| 6 | Advertising members of the family as if they were houses for sale |
| 7 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 8 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 9 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 10 | Rabbiting on as if — as if they were friends at the very least … |
| 11 | Where the programme is most revealing is in its assumption that the proper way of handling young refugees was to treat them as if they were entrants to a minor public school . |
| 12 | Because of their cultural inhibitions all men everywhere behave as if they were members of many different species . |
| 13 | Thus , three other categories of persons who are not involved in any manufacturing , are treated as if they were producers under s2 . |
| 14 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 15 | Hodads from Honolulu still think of the place as the Wild West and venture up the H-2 to stare at surfers as if they were herds of buffalo grazing on the sea . |
| 16 | One answer to it might be that there are systemic forces strong enough to propel the nation states through their orbits , rather as if they were planets in a solar system in dynamic equilibrium . |
| 17 | We have a way of talking , and thus a way of thinking , about thoughts as if they were sentences in the head ; and it is worth noting that Fodor ( for example in Psychosemantics ) regards folk psychology as providing a rough but reliable account of mental life and behaviour . |
| 18 | The wind came whipping off the moor and bent the cypresses as if they were blades of grass . |
| 19 | The woman walked around Masklin and Angalo as if they were items on display . |
| 20 | It begins with two entranced dancers fencing with short bamboos , and ends with the dancers unconscious in the arms of the community , while the bamboos continue dancing on their own as if they were slivers of paper on an electrostatically charged diaphragm . |
| 21 | Seeing how nature treats an inept hedgehog made me very glad that we have won the long counter-insurgency war with nature in the western world : but too weak-minded a reverence for nature is going to allow us to treat fellow humans as if they were hedgehogs in the shrubbery . |
| 22 | The various proposals considered in the previous section were presented as if they were additions to the tripartite analysis , it being admitted that Gettier had shown that analysis to be insufficient . |
| 23 | There is a slight problem with stones , which can respond as if they were nuts to the vibrators and air blasts . |
| 24 | Yeah , they 're quite soft anyway it just felt as if they were sort of my toes were sort of jammed up against the end but |
| 25 | The connection was especially good , almost as if they were face to face , and Zen found himself resentful that he should be deprived of the usual screen of interference on an occasion when he could find nothing to say . |
| 26 | She felt as if they were face to face with an inquisitor . |
| 27 | The expression ‘ band width ’ is used to describe links for passing electronic information as if they were pipes through which the information is pumped rather like water being distributed across a national supply network . |
| 28 | It can not , he argues , be tied to the notion of ‘ man ’ as if they were images of each other : |
| 29 | The tower , like other of the medieval remains of Sauveterre ( all of them numbered and labelled by the tourist authorities , as if they were clues in an architectural treasure hunt ) , is alive with pigeons and with palombes , wisely sitting out the shooting season in town . |
| 30 | While it is often the case that methods are treated as if they were tools in a tool box ready and waiting to be used for their appropriate task , it is vitally important that any aspiring methodologist does not take this too seriously but tries , instead , to understand the presumptions which underpin methods . |