Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I know , they have been er certainly have been erm involved in most of the ballots so far , but I know there is a discussion going on about whether they should be the . |
| 2 | Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been . |
| 3 | Gnarled old trees were drawn and modelled later on as if they were figures . |
| 4 | ‘ They go on as if they were never young and did the things we do . ’ |
| 5 | The angle between the models is in this case preserved , indicating that they have been operated on as if they were a single model rotating about the origin . |
| 6 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 7 | But , you know , they 're just being going on as if they are i in a position to grant |
| 8 | As a result , the coupe 's front and rear look rather as if they were designed by different committees . |
| 9 | Those who live close enough to walk to work make a point of mentioning it , rather as if they were keeping alive a forgotten folkway . |
| 10 | Banks also owned equity stakes in their clients , but their real influence came from debt : companies ' big exposure to bank debt gave the lenders control rather as if they held equity . |
| 11 | Blind natural selection , however , makes them behave rather as if they were purposeful , and it has been convenient , as a shorthand , to refer to genes in the language of purpose . |
| 12 | They looked rather as if they had just raided an old clothes shop , few of the items of their clothing being a match , and for the most part , fitting only where they touched . |
| 13 | One answer to it might be that there are systemic forces strong enough to propel the nation states through their orbits , rather as if they were planets in a solar system in dynamic equilibrium . |
| 14 | The living animal has by this process been transformed into something approximating a circuit board in a computer , and the researchers can go about exploring its properties rather as if they were electrical engineers , presented with a novel piece of equipment and trying to understand from scratch how its circuits function . |
| 15 | In his wake were two older men in crumpled uniforms , unshaven clumsy fellows , carrying their rifles gingerly as if they feared they might go off unexpectedly . |
| 16 | She patted his hand and smiled , then pursed her lips together as if they must be forced not to speak another word . |
| 17 | They were in a dark corner behind the bandstand in the park and had quickly gone through all the other stages , including the one Sally liked best , kissing and pressing the lower half of their bodies close together as if they were dancing . |
| 18 | The puppets clung together as if they would never part . |
| 19 | In Arequipa I had watched women in the church of Santo Domingo giggle happily as they dressed the Virgin for a procession ; , behaving much as if they had been preparing a girl for a wedding , not a poor girl though , rather one Velasquez might be called upon to paint . |
| 20 | My fears were shared by youthful friends and even adult relatives at times seemed to ‘ chivvy ’ us along as if they too expected the ghost train to rush by . |
| 21 | For this one date they were supported by the Billy Harper Trio with Peter Stuart and Adrian Tilbrook on bass and drums and they fitted in as if they 'd all been on tour together . |
| 22 | They went up and down as if they were on a roller-coaster . |
| 23 | The typical interviewee profile of the ‘ recreational user ’ is that of ‘ dabbling ’ at weekends , usually sharing a ‘ bag ’ with a friend , then gradually filling in the days in between until they are all taken up by heroin use . |
| 24 | This is the case regardless of whether they take an objective , subjective or general view of their work ( see page 62 ) . |
| 25 | The charity sets up projects , often connected with the arts , to persuade people to value their surroundings , regardless of whether they are unusual or not . |
| 26 | When people must pay for services , regardless of whether they use them or not , they are paying a tax , period . |
| 27 | Examples were given of regular meetings or occasions which enabled workers to identify and keep track of people in the community , regardless of whether they had the status of an active case . |
| 28 | Regardless of whether they include direct ancestors or not , the carpoids do serve to demonstrate the likelihood of evolutionary links between chordates — including vertebrates — and the echinoderms . |
| 29 | Home-grown cannabis plants have a ‘ European look ’ , regardless of whether they have been grown from Sri Lankan or Moroccan seeds . |
| 30 | It is an inborn fear that develops when they are only a few months old , regardless of whether they have ever met an owl . |