Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers were clamped solid as if sewn into the material . |
| 2 | ‘ Little talk with Jesus ? ’ he said , and , halfway through reaching for a tube of tomato purée , he closed his eyes and froze solid as if overtaken by a large quantity of molten lava . |
| 3 | Sore as if bruised with a sore throat , consider Phytolacca which also has a hot red face and cold limbs and body . |
| 4 | She sat up in the bed , dumbstruck , her face aglow as if lit from the inside . |
| 5 | Waterfalls of white and gold , shooting stars in scarlet and yellow , Christmas trees shimmering as if touched by fairy wands . |
| 6 | She felt compassionate like a mother and wanted to help him but the wheel had slowed down until its glow had died and she stood paralysed as if frozen in the aftermath of the death of the sun . |
| 7 | He said this as if amused by the thought . |
| 8 | Recently , a rectal motor complex that is not synchronous with or related to the migrating motor complex was reported . |
| 9 | Moreover , when words are spoken in continuous speech they often sound different from when spoken in isolation . |
| 10 | Again , mathematicians are notoriously not all competent accountants ; physicists may not be interested in or fitted for involvement in industrial processes — they may not even be able to change a light bulb . |
| 11 | Because so many other lines were dependent upon and linked to its operations they are brought into the story . |
| 12 | State organizations are responsive to and controlled by legitimately elected elites . |
| 13 | I can not imagine a more uplifting experience than listening through to a sequence of Brahms 's chamber compositions such as if offered here . |
| 14 | It is perhaps not appropriate to insist that Zuwaya , resisting government regulation , had an image of a different kind of economic order , consistent with or derived from their image of Arab government , and opposed to the principles of Islamic socialism . |
| 15 | But even as she vowed to protect she was filled with terror at the unhappiness the fleeting expressions rehearsed ; pulled up against the staggering independence of this creature to experience its own ranges of reaction , its life , quite separate from and un-understood by her . |
| 16 | We shoot down into the rapid as if fired out of a cannon . |
| 17 | And because it is always uncertain whether a new system of regulation can be smoothly established when the old one breaks down , the regulationist approach does not share world-system theories ' perspective of inexorable capitalist expansion in which all developments are seen as functional for and planned by capital as a whole . |
| 18 | He became pale and ill as if taken by a sudden seizure . ’ |
| 19 | But , as Mao grew increasingly suspicious of and isolated from more distinguished revolutionary veterans , he turned increasingly to his secretary for help as he tried to rally support for more radical , leftist policies . |
| 20 | She switched on the electric fire , the room was freezing as if hung with icicles . |
| 21 | Ulcers of mucous membranes can be deep as if punched out . |
| 22 | The basic argument is that the more adolescents are supervised by their parents and , perhaps , their teachers , the less likely they are to become involved with or influenced by delinquent contemporaries and delinquent values . |
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| 26 | The executive managers must develop awareness of the need to educate the people and groups involved in or affected by the change . |
| 27 | Similarly , the family farmers , who have typically been very involved in and identified with the running of local village activities , have found themselves elbowed aside . |
| 28 | The Bob Geldof of the ‘ Rock Against Repatriation ’ project is Steve Hackett , former Genesis ly guitarist , with who has assembled a group that includes ing Brian May of Queen , Mike Rutherford of Genesis , members of Tears for Fears and Marillion , Howard Jones and Bonnie Tyler to record Rod Stewart 's 1970s hit , Sailing , made famous in the 1970s by and written by the Sutherland Brothers . |
| 29 | Work on procedures for the Hamilton base was started in 1992 by and finalised by materials handling manager and materials control manager both based at Hamilton Oil . |
| 30 | For example , in the infertility clinics , the patient 's yearning for a child meets the drive , satisfaction and status inherent in or accorded to technical brilliance . |