Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ? |
| 2 | The first is that the effect of such an undertaking would be to impose an obligation on the council to indemnify Wickes against damage suffered by it , in the event of section 47 being held to be invalid as inconsistent with article 30 , irrespective of whether in such circumstances Wickes has a right to damages — i.e. , irrespective of whether the Bourgoin case is wrongly decided . |
| 3 | And I think , I mean the kind of situations I would think of as in that would be , just to take it from my own experience , of children who become quite experienced . |
| 4 | What they share , despite their differences , is an insistence that there is no ‘ original ’ wholeness or unity in the self , nor a ‘ real self ’ which can be thought of as in some way underlying the self of everyday life . |
| 5 | ‘ Gustave Flaubert , French writer , 1821–1880 , lived here while — ’ but then the letters shrink impossibly , as if on some optician 's chart . |
| 6 | They 'd have seen him walk toward the escalators as the car drew away , moving as if on some rudimentary automatic pilot . |
| 7 | The sound of wheels turned in her ears again as she thought of Maman driving off to the railway station as if on some brisk pursuit . |
| 8 | In London she lost umbrella after umbrella , as if with each accidental leaving behind lay the idea that she might not need that particular umbrella again . |
| 9 | as if with that spare strength he used to enjoy , |
| 10 | The creamy glaze shone as if with some inner light . |
| 11 | As he did so his wife raised her eyebrows as if at some freakish aberration . |
| 12 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 13 | He realised the ambiguity and laughed , shaking his head , as if at some private , bitter joke . |
| 14 | as if at some point in their lives they had decided that the only way to survive was to retreat to a still centre in themselves . |
| 15 | A shadow fell over his face and he became silent , as if at some disturbing memory . |
| 16 | The imprints of his hands still seemed to burn on her skin , as if at any moment her nightdress might burst into flames . |
| 17 | Glow-strips flickered , as if to this stifling hell of pain and terror was soon to be added darkness . |
| 18 | To the code-breakers of Bletchley , to the Cabinet , the Chiefs of Staff and certain commanders in the field , this intelligence was referred to ( as if to some rare commodity or magic panacea ) as ‘ Ultra ’ . |
| 19 | My mind is full of dark thoughts and evil yearnings , terrible images which move me to wickedness , as if to some obscure crime which perhaps I have committed already — ’ |
| 20 | In the middle of our talk I began to speak as if to some demon , telling him to hold his tongue and not interrupt my talk , and let me serve these gentlemen for it was already late . |
| 21 | Frye 's quivering body slumped and then , turning slightly as he was sucked into the wall as if into some vertical view of a bizarre quicksand , he was quickly absorbed — the wall closing around him ; unmarked and to their eyes , as solid and impenetrable as ever . |
| 22 | as if that quest were not macabre enough in itself , I went as if under some sort of malediction . |
| 23 | He pondered , as if over some deep , philosophical point . |
| 24 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 25 | But then , as if in that same instant he had solved the puzzle , he spoke . |
| 26 | It was as if in that short distance from the Upper East Side she had crossed a magic dividing line into another country . |
| 27 | The actors in the Shrewsbury battle scene , for instance , are huddled in a knot on a raised platform , locked in slow-motion combat as if in some seething tapestry . |
| 28 | It was as if in some government department in Washington , Damascus , Paris , Jerusalem , Rome or London , there were people who understood the true meaning of this military involvement and were trying to square the adventure with history . |
| 29 | He had first of all , as if in some extraordinary dream , after struggling through the dark tunnel , seen her in bed , seen her dark bright eyes , reflecting the candlelight , gazing calmly at him ; and he had imagined her to be a child , a boy . |
| 30 | As she marched she threw remarks over her shoulder , as if in some climactic race with a large orchestra . |