Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want a new car , then cherish your beaten-up old Ford as if it were a gleaming red convertible . |
| 2 | There is of course a much heard debate about the fees and the services of the church , with people holding different views about whether or not there should be a charge for functions like funerals , but for the moment we are more concerned with how the ‘ consumers ’ experience the way the church 's representative reaches out to them at their time of crisis . |
| 3 | Yet it would be quite proper , and indeed is necessary , for non-scientists to have views about whether or not to buy meat for the coming weekend . |
| 4 | There are differing views about whether three years or a single year period would be better or worse . |
| 5 | Er here erm you can form your own views about whether Mill 's right or wrong , I mean that the situation of a secret ballot was brought in to erm overcome as one where the local industrist industrialist who employed half the member of the town was also standing for parliament . |
| 6 | This example is an interesting one because different people have different views about whether or not it is in fact " illegal " . |
| 7 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 8 | He strode briskly into the building as if nothing had happened . |
| 9 | Some energy from point Q is also detected by the sensor as if it had originated at P , due to scattering at S1 . |
| 10 | £5.95 During and after World War II Count Antoine Seilern , the Courtauld Institute 's major benefactor , assembled a collection of the work of Oskar Kokoschka . |
| 11 | When the man shook his head , he looked at his watch as if yet another important appointment awaited him , and strutted off . |
| 12 | The part was quite easy because all I had to do was stand about and wag my tail . |
| 13 | Judgements made in the course of a lecture will be taken down in notes as if they were facts , whereas it is in the nature of critical judgements that they can not be taken over by others ; it is on this dilemma , I believe , that Leavisism ultimately foundered . |
| 14 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
| 15 | So , you can rotate , stretch and generally fiddle with text as if it was a square or what have you . |
| 16 | In particular , I do not claim that the text " " presents " " these units " , in practice he picks out intonational units from the text as if they were given ( albeit he sometimes admits to ambiguities of prosodic structure ) . |
| 17 | Faced with conflicting advice from radio stations and the state authorities about whether to evacuate , many people just fled . |
| 18 | ‘ If I throw names at you , ’ he said , ‘ give your reasons for or against . ’ |
| 19 | We have to examine the reasons for and against the directive and judge whether it is justified in order to decide whether its mistake , if it is not justified , is large or small . |
| 20 | What is wrong with regarding an authoritative directive as one additional prima facie reason for the action it directs , which supplements , rather than supplants , the other reasons for and against that action ? |
| 21 | It was not long before feminists inquired m-to the reasons for and the mechanisms underlying these pervasive exclusions and distortions and wondered about the part played by ‘ man-made language ’ ( Spender , 1980 ) in upholding a gender order in which women are systematically subordinated . |
| 22 | The fact that a power has no legal source does not render it unreviewable by the High Court if there are sound reasons for and no good reasons against such review . |
| 23 | particulars of , reasons for and effect of departures from law where such departures have been made to give a true and fair view |
| 24 | It was something you had to accept understand the reasons for and carry on regardless . |
| 25 | There are several different kinds of answer to this question , to some extent bound up with one 's understanding of the reasons for and interpretation of ‘ the facts ’ . |
| 26 | Both the reasons for and the consequences of this fact are the subject of the project . |
| 27 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 28 | Jean-François Briant cuts sheets of steel into more or less identifiable natural forms , leaves with veins incised into openings , ears of corn , vegetable silhouettes which slide imperceptibly towards representations of objects as if at every fold and cut the metal allowed one to read into it fragments of history , of a previous life . |
| 29 | The park lay in sodden neglect , sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out . |
| 30 | There is no discrimination for or against any candidate on the basis of sex , ethnic origin , social class , home location or whether they have a medical background . |