Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people speak , and write , through a blur of adjectives as if they secretly knew that at heart of their hackneyed attempts to articulate is nothing . |
| 2 | His voice was croaked and hoarse and his shocked stare came to rest on David as if he instinctively knew he was a doctor . |
| 3 | Every morning at Mass he sought her smiling eyes as if she alone understood his loneliness and felt for him . |
| 4 | For days I 've been telling Caliban that I do n't see why D and M and everyone else should be left in the dark about whether I still exist . |
| 5 | The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever . |
| 6 | Chair , I 'd like to challenge standing orders on motion three O one , an example being in the part-time workers ' qualification into it was done by a recommendation of and we therefore request that it stays on the agenda . |
| 7 | And as a result of that we really have got overcapacity which we 've declared publicly so , you know , we 're not saying anything different today than what we said when we first purchased the business in July and August . |
| 8 | Nearly three months on and I still miss France and I wish I could go back , but I 'm enjoying myself here in Debenham being close to all my friends and family . |
| 9 | This raises the question about whether we still need to allocate debt charges to individual operating statements . |
| 10 | I began to pat at my pockets as if I really meant it but the barman shook his head . |
| 11 | Glasgay ! should be an instructive test of whether it really welcomes innovation and potential controversy , or whether its major cultural skill is just mouth music . |
| 12 | Perhaps the oddest feature of evidence on spillovers is that they seem to be particularly prevalent in high R&D sectors , and this raises the question of whether they actually do undermine incentives to do R&D ( see Levin , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | The episode raises the question of whether she actually knew who Mapplethorpe was when she agreed to the V&A being used for an Aids fund-raising event , at which there was to be a slide show of the photographs in the book . |
| 14 | This Airacomet is significant to the Museum in that she actually flew from March while assigned to the 420th Base Unit , Continental Air Command , during that Unit 's posting to March Field in late 1945 . |
| 15 | My Lord there is a final part of our submission on on this is because I do n't know whether your Lordship has a copy of the report this is the report of the fact that My Lord erm what I wish to refer you to if I may , is erm that paragraph three one of the report which is erm that solicitors and er he instructed himself er from the law society who told him that the law society in paragraph three page five , do n't issue any specific directional guidance duty of care in relation to the plaintiffs transaction , the Law Society view obligation to be have to be considered on the basis of and he then goes on from there to depart from that approach to speculate as to what his approach would be erm |
| 16 | the only way to do it is get that book one really sort of so he really understands it and then he 's gon na be interested in book two cos he 'll |
| 17 | On Rights of Way we want to we want to spend money on doing a sort of and we also want to reduce the backlog of work up . |
| 18 | the work will be still continued on that , but also in terms of Bungay itself , we 're looking at whether county management can look at this and sort of if you like identify it , so we have n't abandoned Bungay , far from it , we 're still concerned with the , we 've got the , the base of the facts still go on er and , and we 're gon na continue on Monday . |
| 19 | So just just small movements of the feet I 'm not talking well there 's a classic one I had when I was at college we had a lecturer imagine a big lecture theatre you know two hundred people and there was there was a board and he presented his lecture like this , plenty of foot movement but he presented his lecture like and he just walked up and down . |
| 20 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 21 | They ask about the short stories as if they really want them — none of that toffee-nosed ‘ we might conceivably ’ stuff we had last time . |
| 22 | If reading Alison 's story sets off alarm bells in your head about whether you too have an exercise obsession , or perhaps have a friend or sister who does , then turn to ‘ Obsessions : Where to get help ’ . |
| 23 | You talk about achieving a balance between idealism and realism as if we already have a perfect one . |
| 24 | You should be able to do quite a bit of useful contemplation about whether you actually love this boyfriend of yours . ’ |
| 25 | We shouted our biological achievements at each other as if nothing else mattered . |
| 26 | The fact that Thucydides wanted to do this , or said he did , does not of course provide evidence of whether he actually did . |
| 27 | Satan 's back in and I suddenly remember I got to look after him . |
| 28 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 29 | The server has an advantage in that he always get doubles to aim for , where his opponent must hit trebles . |
| 30 | Mikaela von Koskull , who had originally been selected to sail on Martela OF but who eventually sailed with Maiden , will lead a group that includes Dawn Riley , Claire Russel , Jeni Munday and Nancy Hill . |