Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The availability of similar speeds across the network could make the future remote facilities as intuitive and supportive as if they were all on the user 's desktop . |
| 2 | The crushing weariness was a formidable enemy , though , and she felt her eyelids drooping as if they 'd been weighted . |
| 3 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 4 | Commentators need to be clear about whether they are enquiring into interviewees ' reading or their politics . |
| 5 | And she was so toffee-nosed as if they said the curtains . |
| 6 | The double answer — schools are different from but they are also the same as other organizations — was confirmed when Handy and Aitken ( 1986:34 ) asked whether , in their essentials , schools were just like other organizations . |
| 7 | ‘ The English — and of course I do n't want you to take this personally — the English are peculiar in that they have very little culinary self-esteem . |
| 8 | Cichlid keepers are no different in that they want to breed their fish — or they hope their fish will breed for them . |
| 9 | ( iii ) Lastly , non-causal nomic connections are stated by numerical laws different in that they do specify how a magnitude varies with time . |
| 10 | So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed . |
| 11 | Molloy and Carroll ( 1992 ) adopt an approach which is designed to assist comparison with Bourner and Hamed 's study , although their operational definition is somewhat different in that they include the following categories : no formal qualifications ; other non standard entrants ( this is a range of qualifications which includes professional , nursing , technical and secretarial ) ; O-levels or one A-level ; one OU credit ; Access . |
| 12 | We had a long series of various pieces of research , one of which was actually talk to enormous amount of customers through customer and as a consequence of that we 've we decided to form a fairly business to produce a very different pair of stores , different in that they wo n't trade in the traditional way that M F Is gone ah they 'll carry different merchandise , different price lines . |
| 13 | And er I had asked there was anything you know , they would be interested in and they all agreed that they wanted to start with banking , and wha , see what Sandra had done last er ta last year with a group that they thought was very good getting them to be aware |
| 14 | This is the sense that is represented by the title Aesop 's Fables : used of unrealistic stories ( Aesop 's fables are unrealistic in that they present anthropomorphized beasts and birds ) which may nonetheless present a valuable and pertinent moral to their readers . |
| 15 | Merrill Lynch 's statistics are interesting in that they indicate that companies prefer to give expatriates coming to Britain financial assistance towards buying property rather than towards renting it . |
| 16 | Finally , the RAC 's responses were interesting in that they revealed the wide variety of provision of training that already existed , carried out within institutions and provided by major regional centres , and also suggested that this diversity would continue . |
| 17 | After some agonizing over whether they were confident enough to do their respective jobs , ex-Big Flame member Tony Hodgson became Production Manager and Liz Cooper gave up her job as Circulation Manager of the New Statesman to take up the same position on the new paper . |
| 18 | However what we do n't want er our consultants to get in paranoid about if they do n't get that target . |
| 19 | The library of the future would be able to handle all types of electronic media , with users blissfully unaware of whether they were watching , say , a laser disc or a video tape . |
| 20 | They are typical in that they adapt non-literary work on language . |
| 21 | Moreover , such texts are the more dangerous in that they affect us at a subconscious level . |
| 22 | Pension fund surpluses can be dangerous in that they may encourage corporate takeovers in order to strip the pension fund , although many companies nowadays have very carefully worded trust deeds for their pension funds to limit the chance of takeover . |
| 23 | ‘ The French were fortunate in that they had vessels of the right kind available . ’ |
| 24 | The songs are consistent in that they are uniformly as confused as an Asian skinhead , as profound as a boiled egg , and as lifeless as a dick in a refrigerator . |
| 25 | Although in some instances the sex/style differences are very slight , they are quite consistent in that they usually tend in the same direction , much as Labov ( 1966 : 7 ) found for social class and style : ‘ Native New Yorkers differ in their usage in terms of absolute values of the variables , but the shifts between contrasting styles follow the same pattern in almost every case . ’ |
| 26 | Are , then , cell signals instructive in that they tell the cell something it does not already know ? |
| 27 | But it is not just prospective parents who have contact with mentally handicapped people , and the attitudes of many people in positions of authority are crucial in that they will make decisions which will affect the lives of our mentally handicapped community . |
| 28 | Ireland 's timing was perfect in that they produced such a stunning performance in front of three of the four Lions selectors , Ken Reid , Derek Morgan and Bob Munro . |
| 29 | Legitimacy … does not deal so much with whether activities of government are lawful as whether they accord with what are generally perceived to be or what have for long been held up to be , the fundamental principles of the constitution according to which government is or ought to be conducted . |
| 30 | The former ought to be more prominently displayed , the article says , so that patients are n't confused about whether they have been given a different type of medicine when collecting subsequent prescriptions . |