Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary ; he seemed to get better as the game progressed , winning tackles as if to order , losing little in the air . |
| 2 | Meh'Lindi commenced some isometric combat exercises as if to repel the oppression of being in the warp , which at times could generate a spiritual migraine , an ache of the soul . |
| 3 | All other things equal , it looks as if producing more of the model is beneficial . |
| 4 | She writes as if anticipating the publication of her diary . |
| 5 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems Inc , which two months ago was hiring back some of its old lieutenants , has up and laid off all its vice-presidents and managers except for its engineering chief , and will close down all but its Russian and its headquarters operations , Unigram reports . |
| 6 | Pick Systems Inc , which two months ago was hiring back some of its old lieutenants ( UX No 420 ) , has up and laid off all its vice presidents and managers except its engineering chief reportedly without notice or severance and will close down all but its Russian and headquarters operations . |
| 7 | Considerably more sacrilegious , albeit in a flippant way , is Du Con qui fu fait a la besche , " Of the cunt , which was made with a spade " , in which God is presented as having forgotten to give Eve genitals and then allowing the Devil to remedy this , on the condition that he neither adds to nor takes anything away from God 's creature . |
| 8 | It is a pity some of those guys do not get up and learn to do commerce in the way that the rest of the world has to and put to advantage their expensive educations which are paid for out of general taxes . ’ |
| 9 | mm , is there any body here who 's had cosmetic plastic surgery , who , who 'd wants to or has any views on it , up there , yes . |
| 10 | Couples practises when he needs to and takes a complete break , normally three weeks , when he considers he has done sufficient to earn one . |
| 11 | If she has a male boss who has tantrums that would be more appropriate in a three-year-old , a boss who shouts at and bullies her , in the institutional world of male values , she will lose all respect if she cries . |
| 12 | A male who stands by and allows another companion member of the coalition to mate with a receptive female is not really being altruistic , because that companion is probably a relative . |
| 13 | It would be idle to pretend that any of the Pacific islands have the kind of economic importance possessed by , say , Korea , or Malaysia , but in addition to potentially immense political importance and no small amount of charm , they have a symbolic significance — for they are what the world still thinks of when confronted with the single word , Pacific . |
| 14 | Humiliated , Kate blows her nose ungracefully and almost apologises for nor knowing what has come over her . |
| 15 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 16 | In addition the lack of upwelling allows a tongue of the equatorial counter-current ( which normally passes into and flails pointlessly about in the Gulf of Panama ) to head further south , into the region of the northbound Peru current . |
| 17 | Analysis of the word-superiority effect in terms of the Johnston-McClelland model led to the conclusion that although word identification depends upon and occurs after letter identification , tasks requiring responses to words may nevertheless be performed more accurately , and indeed more quickly , than tasks requiring responses to letters . |
| 18 | It is not as much a matter of generating meanings out of a text as it is a matter of making connections between a particular verbal text and a larger cultural text , which is the matrix or master code that the literary text both depends upon and modifies . |
| 19 | It results from and reflects power , patronage and politics in our society — and it is detested by those who must live for decades in its shadow . |
| 20 | Although it appears to be the same principle that promotes sympathy for South African blacks in their country , this confirms rather than vitiates the point that the form and meaning of racist discourses depends on and varies in context and enables a range of verbal and practical interactions and positions . |
| 21 | To illustrate Jakobson 's approach to these texts , let us take his analysis ( with L.G. Jones ) of Shakespeare 's Sonnet cxxix , ‘ Th'Expence of Spirit ’ ( 1970 ) : The analysis considers in turn the following relationships of equivalence and contrast ( which evidently depends on and emphasizes equivalence ) in the poem ( the spelling and punctuation follow the first edition ) : ( 1 ) those which oppose the first seven lines to the last seven ; ( 2 ) those which are constant features of the text as a whole ; ( 3 ) those which oppose strophes I and III to II and IV ; ( 4 ) those which oppose strophes I and IV to ( I and III ( the outer and the inner ) ; ( 5 ) those which oppose strophes I and II to III and IV ; ( 6 ) those which oppose the final couplet to the rest of the poem ; and ( 7 ) those which oppose the middle couplet ( lines 7 and 8 ) to the rest of the poem . |
| 22 | The southern Italian peasant , he said , acts as if following this rule : ‘ Maximise the material short-run advantage of the nuclear family ; assume that all others will do likewise . |
| 23 | It would be diagnosed if the person complains of or shows such things as : poor appetite and weight loss ; disturbed sleep pattern ; loss of energy and an inability to experience pleasure ; feelings of guilt and self-reproach ; difficulty in concentrating ; suicidal thoughts ; and behaviour that is very greatly slowed down or , alternatively , agitated and restless . |
| 24 | A Marxist book , an anarchist 's guide , attacks on the institution of the family , songs celebrating illegal drugs , films and television plays celebrating physical violence or showing crime as justifiable or successful , can and do become , whatever their varying cultural sources , profitable commodities in a market within a state and culture which officially ( and no doubt , within the terms of its insoluble contradiction , really ) disapproves of or opposes all these things . |
| 25 | The first , which deals with VAT traders , explains traders ' rights and Customs ' responsibilities ; the quality of service that traders can expect ; what happens during visits ; what to do if a trader disagrees with or complains about the way they have been treated ; and how Customs will publish results . |
| 26 | Conversely an experienced marriage guidance counsellor who transfers to the CAB may be overwhelmed by the immense range of problems that the CAB deals with and find the information system threatening . |
| 27 | Choose a game or exercise which leads into or complements this work . |
| 28 | This is mental imagery , though not only visual , and it leads to and encourages a reconstruction of events and a process of creativity . |
| 29 | Censorship is an unprofessional act , and anyone who deliberately calls for and takes part in censorship has no place in the profession . |
| 30 | The adventurers have come upon Maximilian von Steinhoff , a Vampire from Talabheim , and Juliane Fassbinder , a Vampiric Minion ( see New Monsters ) who travels with and protects her master . |