Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tested this in three ways : by looking up an article on a subject which I feel I know reasonably well ; by looking up an article on a topic with which I am familiar ; and by looking for information on an area which I have heard about but of which I am largely ignorant . |
| 2 | Claims ( for what they may be worth ) for indemnity from a miscreant partner will more readily be encountered in the context of fraudulent activities in relation to the misapplication of money or property received for or in custody of the firm , to which s11 of the Partnership Act is directed : In the following cases ; namely — ( a ) Where one partner acting within the scope of his apparent authority receives the money or property of a third person and misapplies it ; and ( b ) Where a firm in the course of its business receives money or property of a third person , and the money or property so received is misapplied by one or more of the partners while it is in the custody of the firm ; the firm is liable to make good the loss . |
| 3 | The sooner Wilson returns , however , the better it will be not only for the teams he plays for but for all of us . |
| 4 | Of the three , that showing John Tradescant is the finest , for neither corpse in the other two paintings is shown in shrouds , both women having been painted as if at the moment of death rather than after the laying-out . |
| 5 | Pockets were emptied of loose change , parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent . |
| 6 | He cut across the grass , stepping between and over the outstretched bodies . |
| 7 | To the grown man visionary experiences come infrequently , but when they do appear the effect is profound , as in ‘ the Blind Beggar ’ episode ; caught in the maelstrom of London , the poet is admonished as if from another world' ( see page 64 ) . |
| 8 | Nessie found herself reacting as if to the parish priest or the headmaster of the school . |
| 9 | Thus , in a cumulative response , consensus , dissensus and , possibly , conflict of opinions on matters concerning the management of change and on curriculum theories in action , could be examined between and within the different groups . |
| 10 | Money of any currency which a Firm holds or receives for or from a client and which is not immediately due and payable on demand to the firm for its own account and money held by the firm as stakeholder . |
| 11 | Wölflinn was naturally not ignorant of artists , but the famous phrase indicated an interest in the sequence of art seen as forms which develop as if of their own volition . |
| 12 | Oracular , industrious , and capable of producing as if without effort memoranda of seamless cohesion and judiciousness , Hailey was the Indian civil servant of legendary grasp and authority . |
| 13 | One alternative Chinese perspective is shen yuan , in which the viewer is placed as if on a hill , and the horizon line is thus high up , almost a bird 's eye view . |
| 14 | They also dance for and with each other . |
| 15 | Bars may be awarded for additional qualifying acts and , as with original award , those given during or after World War Two carry the date on the reverse . |
| 16 | When you 're up against your Fortune , whether it goes for or against you . ’ |
| 17 | The children marched down the stairs , the nun coming behind , and in the hall they met up with the older girls and , now forming two files , they walked , hands joined as if in prayer , slowly along a corridor , and into the chapel . |
| 18 | A child , a small , dark , hooded figure was sweeping across the grass towards him with hands joined as if in prayer . |
| 19 | He showed me an underwater grotto , a light-shafted nave of pale-blue shadows , where the large wrasse floated as if in a trance . |
| 20 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 21 | Kopyion was kneeling as if in prayer . |
| 22 | Thrown up to the surface , diced as if by an ace Chinese chef ready for stir fry . |
| 23 | The white marble squares on the pavement glowed as if on a phantom chessboard . |
| 24 | They seem to appear as if by magic wherever industrial capitalist society grows . |
| 25 | He rose as if in a daze , found a space on the floor and sat down . |
| 26 | But in winter , ‘ As the darkness thickened the wind increased , and each blast raked the iron railings before the houses till they hummed as if in a song of derision ’ . |
| 27 | Given that pre-trial standards were acceptable , the maintenance of , or an improvement in those standards is to be expected during and at the end of the trial . |
| 28 | Athelstan had talked to another friar who had seen Wallingford 's ingenious clock , the wheels within it fixed as if by magic , which not only measured the hours but indicated the states and signs , the phases of the moon , the position of the sun , the planets and the heavens . |
| 29 | The stranger peered between and beyond the silent , uneasy company , but he could not glimpse the boy . |
| 30 | ‘ Run and fetch Tremayne , ’ Mackie told him , and he sprang instantly to his feet and sprinted away along the road to the right , his feet impelled as if by demons . |