Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [prep] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northern Ireland 's problem is different from that of either Scotland or Wales in that there exists in Northern Ireland a substantial minority which fears oppression by the majority and if any scheme is to be adopted it must meet these fears . |
| 2 | Things from er data whenever can take ages and ages and ages to And you know doctors get sued every now and again , perish the thought , |
| 3 | Again the boy looked down at his hands , staring at his arms and legs as if they did n't belong to him . |
| 4 | With a view toward facilitating the use of electronic bills of lading , the Law Commissions recommended that the Secretary of State be empowered to ‘ make provision by regulations for information given by means other than in writing to be of equivalent force and effect as if it had been given in writing . ’ |
| 5 | They differ from causal circumstance and effect in that they lack either or both of the features that give rise to the difference between causal circumstance and effect-the priority of the causal circumstance . |
| 6 | The lad Steve came into the room , silently like a little cat ; he was wearing a dressing-gown and pyjamas as if he had started to go to bed , but decided against . |
| 7 | The words and his tone lit a glorious fire in Merrill 's blood that consumed the weeks of misery and suspicion as if they had never been . |
| 8 | Solids distinguish themselves from liquids and gases in that they have fixed shapes and fixed volumes . |
| 9 | He said it was to prevent the priest being mixed up , it was an opportunity to a new priest to come in and sort of if it had become he could establish groups . |
| 10 | It 's much like the relationship between GM and Lotus in that we do co-operative engineering work with it , but we do n't get actively involved in the day-to-day operation of that company . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Er and then er I was going to make a v nice flat and I was going to build a warehouse and things to But I did n't got to do it . |
| 13 | You will also need some larger dishes and containers for when you entertain guests . |
| 14 | Almost all her errors here were regularisations : for example , she read have as if it rhymed with ‘ cave ’ , lose as if it rhymed with ‘ hose ’ , own as if it rhymed with ‘ down ’ , and steak as if it rhymed with ‘ beak ’ . |
| 15 | She pushed herself back against the wall to avoid touching a man but as Owen pressed past her he was as conscious of her roundnesses and softnesses as if he had been in bed beside her . |
| 16 | This is achieved by treating highly selective versions of experience and life as if they covered the whole range of experiential processes and forms of living , which , in fact , excludes the normal experiences and lives of the vast majority of the population . |
| 17 | He moved forward importantly , pushing past Bernice and Cheryl as if they did not exist . |
| 18 | He held the book out between finger and thumb as if it contained some dangerous virus which at any moment could threaten the whole school . |
| 19 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 20 | Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask . |