Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | just behave normal as if it , as if you do n't know it 's there . |
| 2 | ‘ So often people criticise others for wanting to do things which are a little bit different as if it 's wrong not to do things like everyone else does . |
| 3 | And another thing , the torch goes dim as if it 's losing its power . |
| 4 | We may readily show that the matrix X is non-singular. for if it is not , let us first suppose it to be simply degenerate . |
| 5 | The stern yet mellow voice was unmistakeable , as bright and fresh as if it was 1979 when I was in my school uniform eating beans on toast , stretched out in front of the telly … and boy , did he speak quickly |
| 6 | If a vehicle is abandoned in a car park the University reserves the right to have the vehicle removed and/or disposed of as it sees fit . |
| 7 | Well I think what you 've got to be careful of and it 's always a difficulty when you 're looking at er benefits and dis-benefits of major road schemes , you 'll see that we go into a tremendous amount of or collect a tremendous amount of information about the different impacts . |
| 8 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 9 | Stalnaker , 1975 ) Or , to interpret the idea in a way less ontologically extravagant , a way which does not seem to commit us to a plurality of somehow existing worlds , what the conditional means is this : if our actual world were different in that it were raining , and differences overall were in a sense the smallest possible , the balcony would be wet . |
| 10 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
| 11 | The situation with schistosome sex determination is quite different in that it is the female that is heterogametic ( ZW as opposed to the male ZZ ) and the primers used amplify a highly reiterated set of tandem repeats on the W chromosome ( 4 ) . |
| 12 | The 486DX is a different in that it has a numeric coprocessor built into it and so does n't need one adding as a separate unit . |
| 13 | In some ways it is similar to second language acquisition , but it appears to be different in that it starts from the natively acquired dialect as a base . |
| 14 | A response that maintains wide spacing , as in territorial animals or solitary nomads , may be equally social in that it is an interaction between two or more individuals . |
| 15 | That certainly is a very hopeful suggestion which we 're most interested in because it does look as if the P L C will succeed and if it does then we shall have our full seven million pounds . |
| 16 | The last help screen might be considered superfluous in that it is simply a reminder that all entries have to be made in an appropriate manner . |
| 17 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 18 | On some occasions , however , contextual information might actually be unhelpful in that it might exclude the correct item . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman 's question was interesting in that it linked county hall and Battersea power station , making it clear that the Labour party 's plans for a reborn Greater London council are not the reassuring slim-line version that Labour spokesmen have been peddling . |
| 20 | This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it . |
| 21 | BL Additional MS 10289 , which contains a copy of Jouglet , is more interesting in that it shows distinct traces of particularly Norman interest , beginning for instance with a long Roman du Mont St Michel , St Michael 's Mount being situated on the coast of Normandy . |
| 22 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 23 | So you actually write down questions so much going on you ca n't be expected to remember everything and if you 've got just you know sort of questions written down the page like what is your name , it 's simple as that it gets you to do , what ? |
| 24 | The memory was sour-sweet , bubbling up out of the dream-past with this chance remark , as fresh and real as if it were happening now . |
| 25 | First , theory needs to be explicit about whether it is dealing with symmetrical or asymmetrical , reversible or irreversible relationships . |
| 26 | Although the landscape that the poet , the artist and the scientist see is similar in that it is beyond the senses , the way each one of them views , lives and works in them is different . |
| 27 | Its organization was similar in that it was controlled by persons of relatively high social status , that ransoming was a major source of profit , and that the transporting of animals over long distances was usual when a payment was not forthcoming . |
| 28 | In contrast to more conventional strategies for innovation , especially found in America , organization development is holistic or systemic in that it concentrates on the organization more than on the isolated individual or practice . |
| 29 | However that may be , it is , surely , part of the very meaning of being rational that one tries to organise one 's mental stance towards the world so that it is consistent and comprehensive , consistent in that its elements do not frustrate each other , comprehensive in that it covers one 's stance to as wide as possible a range of phenomena . |
| 30 | Put at its lowest , a single-minded and unrelenting pursuit of a policy , however right , however important , may be counter-productive in that it may alienate the very people whom it is sought to convert . |