Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruthven suddenly rose as if to suppress some excitement inside him . |
| 2 | Which I do n't think mum entirely approved of cos she |
| 3 | The ties all looked as if they came from a jumble sale . |
| 4 | Oliver slept in the middle of the bed , naked , his eyes fiercely shut as if he were trying very hard to think about something . |
| 5 | Client will ensure that all information relating to itself comprised in announcements , public statements , the Offer document and any other documents during KPMG 's engagement hereunder issued by or with the consent or knowledge of Client will be true and accurate in all material respects and will not be misleading , and that all expressions of opinion , intention and expectation therein will be honestly held and will be made only after due consideration and that there will not be omitted from any such document any fact the omission of which would make any statement therein false or misleading ; |
| 6 | The area of ground selected was described somewhat imprecisely as : ‘ All that piece of ground situate north of Fig Lane [ now Crowndale Road ] St Pancras extending northwards from thence 650 feet on average abutting Eastwards on the Church path leading to Kentish Town and is in a parallel breadth 270 feet abutting Westward on other Ground intended and agreed to be used as Garden Ground by the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy or the Undertenants and no buildings to be erected thereon which shall raise more than 12 feet above the present surface and nearer than 80 feet to the ground hereby lett and that they will reserve a Street or way 60 feet wide at the least at the northern extremity of the said ground and that the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy do engage to lett to the Veterinary College a piece or any part of their ground at any time within twelve months which they the College shall determine upon a ranging line with the north extremity of the piece already described at and after the rate of £30 per acre nett which are the same terms as the ground described and mentioned are lett at and also at and upon the same reservation of the pepper corn Rent . ’ |
| 7 | Genesis is exhilarating and exuberant orthodox big-band music of a kind rarely played with such punch any more and the sharpness of the CD enhances the brash , headlong momentum of it — Tracey 's orchestras always sound as if they are going to work with the elan of Saturday night at the Savoy ballroom . |
| 8 | However , the labels used in the United States also react with and influence the result which the court believes to be correct . |
| 9 | And these are matters that we are , and will be for the future the immediate future and perhaps for the more distant future thoroughly engaged upon because there are very deep questions here and the sacramental one hinges upon the ecclesial one . |
| 10 | The mapping of relationships also depends on whether the relationships are binary or n-ary and on the cardinality of the relationship . |
| 11 | A deflection more linearly dependent on the current I than the square law can be achieved by making good use of the fact that the torque also depends on cos θ where θ defines the orientation of the suspended coil as shown in figure 7.2(a) . |
| 12 | Darwin 's thinking both drew upon and transcended the conventional ideas of his time . |
| 13 | Beside her Rune slept like the proverbial baby , brow unfurrowed , mouth closed , lips slightly curled as if his dreams pleased him , golden brown lashes , tipped with ash-blond , an innocent sweep against the high carved Nordic cheekbones . |
| 14 | The car never felt as if it was going to come good . |
| 15 | It was the golden age for carvers and modellers , who enjoyed a freedom of expression and an architectural surface upon which to create and experiment never equalled before or since . |
| 16 | On the other , we are all highly adept at creating socially defined sub-categories of man and then treating the members of the groups thus specified as if they belonged to quite different species from our own . |
| 17 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 18 | As to what steps may be effective to prevent a holding out , there may be some discrepancy between what will suffice for the Law Society to exempt a salaried partner from compliance with the professional rules already referred to and what the Court might regard as appropriate in proceedings brought by a creditor of the firm . |
| 19 | Not only is there the assumed rejection of surplus narrative already referred to but there is also the search for the truth of the body . |
| 20 | Steel-grey light at the windows , opaque at first , then each pane slowly clarifying as if the dawn were melting frost from the glass . |
| 21 | When dealing with cases of sexual abuse perpetrated upon a child , one of the greatest problems is the guilt which that child always feels during and after the event . |
| 22 | He and Jake always look as if they 've got one skin less than other people , Ruth thought . |
| 23 | And it allows companies both to contribute to and benefit from election campaigns . |
| 24 | Arbroath 's south transept even looks as if it has smelt the wind under which it will sail ; it is a tall , bare , one-shouldered hulk with a single blank eye at the high gable top where a rose window used to be . |
| 25 | ‘ And there it is , your throneships , ’ said Bith , beaming , because when all was said and done , had n't they produced the finest old sketches ever heard of and was n't there good reason for them to feel proud ? |
| 26 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 27 | She nearly ran up again when the milling throngs of people in the hallway below turned as if drilled by some invisible sergeant and stared at her . |
| 28 | Natalie just smiled as if she had n't heard . |
| 29 | To some extent this reflects the power relationship in the scene , because both participants still act as if their former tutor/student relationship still exists , but it also indicates Anderson 's greater interest in what Hollar may have to tell him . |
| 30 | Economists yesterday disagreed on whether exports could maintain their strength at a time when many other industrial nations are in the doldrums . |