Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , Ian , ’ he said , stroking the beard as if it were a favourite pet that had curled up on his chin , ‘ I think we have established incontrovertibly that you are an eidetiker of sorts . |
| 2 | We 've got to realise that there 's going to families out and about , and what we 'll do is the aircraft er I have n't seen the scenario on paper , but just off the top of my head , I can tell you that the aircraft will make their approaches to the base as if it were a real target . |
| 3 | Some energy from point Q is also detected by the sensor as if it had originated at P , due to scattering at S1 . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it would be a good idea if we all had a swim before breakfast , do n't you ? ’ he said , the announcement seized upon with alacrity by the two little girls who , once again , began jumping up and down on the mattress as if it were a trampoline . |
| 5 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
| 6 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 7 | The small khat traders from Djibouti , who travel the route as if it were the local bus , shrieked and angrily rearranged their shawls and robes . |
| 8 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 9 | So in the light of that it 's per now is a good opportunity to er , make sure that those reserves and balances were available for A , the er , Police Authority should it require it , but B , to those constituent authorities who had helped in the er , build-up of these reserves . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I had the light on and it was twenty-five minutes past two by my little bedside clock . ’ |
| 11 | He blinked at the light as if it hurt him . |
| 12 | She strutted around in the snow as if it belonged to her . |
| 13 | He is then slid into the back of the ambulance as if it was an oven . |
| 14 | There has been more expensive consultation with head teachers and the governors than has been possible er before and I hope the result of that it is reflected in the pages that you have in front of you . |
| 15 | It was a dazzling Saturday afternoon , and the park was full of contented people : children stood knicker-deep in bliss , stroking the paddling-pool as if it were some great tame animal ; attendant mothers soaked in the sun ; lovers were prone and entranced on the grass . |
| 16 | ‘ Before what reaches us ? ’ she croaked , hanging on to the wheel as if it were a lifebelt . |
| 17 | Every research study needs to be assessed on the criterion of whether it measures up to its own stated objectives . |
| 18 | So we entertain the illusion of hearing much of the dialogue as if it were second-hand . |
| 19 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 20 | Their sleep disturbed , their murmured resentment rises into a wind , stirring up the packed clay of the wasteground as if it were desert sand . |
| 21 | His foot went through the ice as if it had been paper . |
| 22 | I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before . |
| 23 | It is a good idea to make a BOOT disk in case you ever have problems when you first turn the machine on and it has difficulty reading the hard drive . |
| 24 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 25 | If we imagine ourselves to be standing outside time , looking down upon the history of the Universe as if it were a relief map , we get a different perspective . |
| 26 | It lets existing Windows programs recognize the pen as if it were a mouse . |
| 27 | He could picture the scene as if it were yesterday . |
| 28 | inadequately educated persons er , view of what it is to be well educated i.e. we 've got to comment on the spelling as if it were important |
| 29 | Your treating the question as if it did n't exist is no help to you , no one ever got away by playing the ostrich . ’ |
| 30 | Yet in such circumstances the insider 's account has a potential to combine ‘ action anthropology ’ , ‘ applied anthropology ’ , and ‘ pure anthropology ’ , to create a fully semantic analysis ; and this raises the question of whether it will then be possible to publish and be damned ? |