Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pron] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the case regardless of whether they take an objective , subjective or general view of their work ( see page 62 ) . |
| 2 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 3 | What about if I do an extra bit at the end ? |
| 4 | When men live in the transcendent they become lost to the world ; it is as if they speak an unknown language and are no longer understood by other men . |
| 5 | In order to make some headway in describing and analysing language , we have had temporarily to treat linguistic units and structures as if they had an independent status and possessed ‘ meaning ’ in their own right . |
| 6 | Successive governments continue to describe the disabled and handicapped as if they constitute an entity . |
| 7 | She stuck her chin in the air and glared — underneath shaking as if she had an ague . |
| 8 | His mother spoke as if she believed an unnatural weight of learning had fallen on her son 's head and knocked him into madness . |
| 9 | ‘ Sounds as if she needs an 'elping hand , ’ said Annie . |
| 10 | — as if she shaped an epitaph by her action , |
| 11 | It 's as if he painted an outline — there 's a hollow here , and here — like a tail … and a head round there , like a kind of head , striped just here … and you 've got the blue — and — it looks something like a foot … |
| 12 | as if he took an oath |
| 13 | Burun grinned as if he suspected an overstatement . |
| 14 | It gave her great qualms that it had been lying in the hall since the morning 's post , as if it had an atmosphere capable of permeating the whole house . |
| 15 | They never changed the booth they sat in and they found that nobody was ever sitting in it as if it had an invisible reserved sign hanging above it . |
| 16 | Therefore it appears that a photon of energy E = hv behaves in a gravitational field as if it possessed an inertial mass E/c 2 ! |
| 17 | I 'm late , ’ I said , as if I had an appointment to keep . |
| 18 | I shivered as if I had an actual fever , smoked a dozen cigarettes and drank half a bottle of Cyprus sherry . |
| 19 | ‘ You sound as if you 've an axe to grind there , Mr Malpass . ’ |
| 20 | Cos he was desperate for cos he needed an answer for Monday morning for Dave . |
| 21 | It seems to ignore the way in which existing fares are calculated' including as they do an element of ‘ taper ’ to avoid long journeys made up of several different sectors ‘ bolted together ’ from becoming too high : again something which would be difficult to replicate in a situation where the railways were operated by numerous regional franchises . |
| 22 | At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year . |
| 23 | You have a case here which must be worth a lot of money , yet there is argument over whether somebody needs an electric toothbrush , how many toilet tissues he is going to use , etc . ’ |
| 24 | Nonetheless , the requirement to classify capital instruments according to whether they contain an obligation to transfer economic benefits does not apply to shares issued by the reporting company . |
| 25 | The investment hinges on market research currently being conducted among existing and prospective customers as to whether they favour an upgraded ATP or an entirely new aircraft . |
| 26 | Conversely those who read left-wing papers were largely agreed that they were anti-Conservative and pro-Labour but more divided on whether they had an anti-Alliance bias . |
| 27 | The determination of whether a capital instrument represents a liability is based on whether it contains an obligation for the issuer to transfer economic benefits ( paragraph 21 ) . |
| 28 | Whether it is successful depends on whether there exists an equilibrium of the particular voting process , and on whether the outcome is accepted . |
| 29 | Suppose that , similarly , the effect of a hot bath depended on , say , our emotional state , rather as whether we feel an icicle down our backs as an icicle or as a red-hot dagger depends on what we have been led to expect . |