Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He jerked forward as if physically attacked ready to defend himself . |
| 32 | Her hair never looked unkempt , but always shone as if newly brushed and was usually tied in a pony-tail with well-ironed blue or pink ribbon . |
| 33 | Ilsa 's fingertip traced the stem , smooth , ash-grey and spotted mauve as if faintly bruised . |
| 34 | Charles Wilson broadly agreed , while Humphrey spoke as if directly coached by the British ( he also anticipated in striking fashion the language of Henry Kissinger in the early 1970s ) . |
| 35 | Though chopped every which way , the whole tentacle squirmed towards where they stood as if still joined together , glued by some adhesive force from outside the normal universe . |
| 36 | Her eyebrows were red as if thickly marked above her eyes with red ink but her face was colourless , no blood at all showing in cheeks or narrow lips . |
| 37 | Often such matters have never been previously talked about and instead left to fester in bad relationships , complaining , negative attitudes and lack of drive . |
| 38 | As the title of this present show suggests , there are works from those early student days with a leavening from his period of teaching in between and now brought up to date with a batch of more recent work . |
| 39 | ‘ I shall always feel it a bounden duty on my part ’ , Gould later wrote to Sir William Jardine , ‘ to sing their praises for if well treated they are the most harmless kind of creatures imaginable . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ Dear lady , dear lady , to think that I might have lived my whole life through and never seen you . |
| 41 | Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’ |
| 42 | A tribunal in The Hague is slowly resolving each country 's claims against the other , including Tehran 's demand for the return of $12billion in military equipment and spare parts which the regime says were paid for but never delivered . |
| 43 | Whenever the professor is engaged in research work within the University being research work which is funded in whole or in part by an outside body on terms that any invention , know-how , copyright or information arising in the course of such work shall be patented , dealt with or otherwise used or exploited in such manner as the outside body may direct , any such invention , know-how , copyright or information shall be subject to the terms of the agreement with the outside body and the professor is required to comply with all obligations including those of confidentiality imposed by that agreement . |
| 44 | PI Associates , sole manufacturers of PolyPads , wish it to be known that Bridlesuite of Lanarkshire have never been supplied with or ever stocked genuine PolyPads . |
| 45 | He could n't remember whether they 'd been fully done up or simply pushed through loosely . |
| 46 | Nearer to the Buid , Morris has described the Melanau of Borneo as living in a ‘ highly diversified social environment in which many cultural and linguistic groups are interspersed with and closely related to one another ’ ( 1967 : 216 ) . |
| 47 | While new and innovative technology is exciting to work with and highly regarded , it is not in itself a guarantee of a profitable product . |
| 48 | While new and innovative technology is exciting to work with and highly regarded , it is not in itself a guarantee of a profitable product . |
| 49 | Economic policy was the core of Reagan 's programme and especial care was taken to ensure that those primarily responsible for economic matters were fully conversant with and totally committed to the president 's position . |
| 50 | ( b ) as the process is ongoing your understanding of the author 's line of argument will not be interfered with but positively enhanced . |
| 51 | But Kraal only shook his head and stared mournfully out on to the lovely morning , seeing only a memory of an old eagle he had argued with but always loved and who would never come back . |
| 52 | A plot of the difference between the molar absorption coefficients for right-and left-circularly polarized light against wavelength is called a circular dichroism ( CD ) spectrum . |
| 53 | The term representation is used here as it suggests that ideas are constructed rather than simply reflected upon or passively received . |
| 54 | So with humanism more generally and more radically : it is not to be imitated , not modified , not simply borrowed from or differently applied ; rather , its appropriation and transformation is conditional upon its negation , the using of it destructively against itself . |
| 55 | Consequently , it is possible to identify types of information that are needed by language processing systems but are either absent from or wrongly presented within the dictionary . |
| 56 | A clash with Constantius II was inevitable and Magnentius prepared for this immediately by raising a large army with substantial aid obtained from and freely given by the provincials , especially those in Gaul and Britain . |
| 57 | It is at this point that the analogy between anorexia nervosa and hysteria , which Freud saw as separate from and possibly opposed to the obsessional neuroses , seems to break down , along with Dally 's separation of the two as different forms of the disease . |
| 58 | In the ommatidia they occur as proteinaceous granules in the pigment cells surrounding the crystalline cone and retinulae ; they are distinct from and sometimes masked by the ommochrome pigments that may also be present . |
| 59 | The Russians were interested in and finally converted to Christianity at the end of the tenth century and from this time onwards their ecclesiastical architecture was based on that of Constantinople while the churches were , in many cases , built and decorated by Byzantine craftsmen . |
| 60 | J. was a good dancer having been to dancing classes as a small boy , and enjoyed them , in contrast to his younger brother who dug his heels in and absolutely refused to do anything so sissy . |