Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pron] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mediaeval church was divided on the issue of whether there was impropriety in the mimetic representation of holy personages on stage . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | It , they , they certainly look as if they are sort of intended er to heat things up . |
| 4 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 5 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She felt as if they were face to face with an inquisitor . |
| 10 | Looks as if somebody was sort of passed over to the other |
| 11 | She was snorting gently , small guttural sounds as if there were phlegm in her throat . |
| 12 | The sky was a remarkable shade of blue , not one cloud in sight , and as she looked up Maggie had a sudden feeling of deep peace , as if she was part of the land , knee-deep in it . |
| 13 | I mean its as if he 's sort of living again , you know , coming back to life . |
| 14 | I think that 's , I mean I think that 's why the , the two interesting ends of the U K press are the tabloid end , because it looks , it looks as if it 's sort of forged in the heat of hot metal and steaminess and erm the top end and things like the Express and The Mail seem to be entirely flabby in the middle . |
| 15 | The whole scene to my informant was as clear as a bell , but on reflection it would seem as if it was part of an earlier railway system . |
| 16 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 17 | and with as if it was chicken with erm parsley thyme stuffing |
| 18 | Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration , and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company 's high-speed Memory Channel , which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors , and Infinity File System , which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database . |
| 19 | Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration , and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company 's high-speed Memory Channel , which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors , and Infinity File System , which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database . |
| 20 | The word was spoken as if it were part of a mystery too arcane to be rapidly solved . |
| 21 | ‘ But it 's not right , ’ said Lydia Horton , looking around the dreary little back-street surgery in the least attractive part of Oswaldston as if it were part of her grievance . |
| 22 | Since then I am called ‘ Majesty ’ and it seems to me as if I was part of a play . |
| 23 | Listen to the slosh-slosh-slosh , feel the rocking motion floating through me as if I 'm part of it — close my eyes — I 'm on my rocking chair and I 'm … |
| 24 | I 've been flung into a filthy cell with a lot of other poor wretches as if I were sack of coals being emptied into a cellar . " |
| 25 | However if you say erm oh well you know erm boys will be boys that 's natural , tha that sounds as if you 're kind of making excuses for them and condoning them , so I think you 've got to be very careful about how you use the word natural and clearly it raises the whole question of how far you can , you can push erm cultural ideals against natural constraints an and what really is the issue . |
| 26 | It has no baying studio audience so that , if you laugh , you do so as if you were part of the scene . |
| 27 | This position must be based on whether there is evidence on which a court could make an Order in Care Proceedings . |
| 28 | These arguments doubtless have different real weight in different locations , depending on whether there is pressure on the local housing stock . |
| 29 | Others are merely temporarily hidden , such as whether there is fire behind a building which obstructs our line of sight ; we could come to know about this by going to see . |
| 30 | So if , for example , I believe that you 've got your belief about whether there 's honey by an especially good method which I ca n't use ( because I ca n't get at your honey pot ) , then I will naturally want to adopt your belief , in order to acquire with it its high chance of being true . |