Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America , and in his memories of a life still to be wished for although lost and gone for ever , that boy could be glimpsed in Eliot also . |
| 2 | Since the role of subjective risk is of particular importance in theories of driving , one part of this question is simply whether drivers are aware of subjective risk , either as a feeling which is occasionally present in immediately dangerous situations but otherwise non-existent ( consistent with a zero-risk theory of driving ) or as a continually fluctuating level which they can be aware of when questioned and which they attempt to match to some target level ( consistent with RHT ) . |
| 3 | At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her . |
| 4 | The Lord Chancellor 's Practice Direction of 17 March 1987 provides that clear photographic copies ( of all documents ) will be accepted as if printed or typed . |
| 5 | It is possible to hear faint moans , as if muffled and some way distant , however . |
| 6 | She was walking toward him now , and she saw him rise as if stung and then start to back away . |
| 7 | ‘ It was your — ’ He cut off his own words abruptly and stared at her woodenly as if frustrated because she was right . |
| 8 | But finally he drew away from her lips and buried his face in her neck and hair , breathing heavily as if exhausted and spent . |
| 9 | The improvement of the quality of work performed by criminal justice personnel through improved training has been much talked about and advocated since at least my own days as a trainee assistant governor almost thirty years ago , and probably well before that . |
| 10 | The effect is even more telling than the BMW , because while anyone with the necessary can buy one of those , these kiddies are not just paid for but born and bred as well . |
| 11 | Well , very briefly , the ideas was Freud in his early practice was getting stories from his patients that they had somehow been sexually interfered with or abused or something of the kind when they were very young , often by an older male friend of the family , a relative , or even their father and initially Freud thought these reminiscences were literally true . |
| 12 | It was interesting that at the controversial Chequers seminar on Germany six British and American experts voiced overwhelmingly favourable opinions about Germany and the Germans ( ‘ If Chancellor Kohl had sat in , he would have agreed with or accepted as fair comments 90 per cent of what was said ’ , commented one of them ) . |
| 13 | ( c ) Law of Property Act 1925 , s62 By the Law of Property Act 1925 , s62 a lease of land will include all liberties , privileges , easements , rights , and advantages whatsoever appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land or any part thereof at the date of the lease , demised , occupied , or enjoyed with or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appertenant to the land or any part thereof . |
| 14 | is an externalist conception , because condition 4 is one which a might be entirely incapable of recognizing or pointing to when asked whether he does know that p . |
| 15 | People who deplore this trend are laughed at and regarded as old-fashioned . |