Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] [subord] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The mapping of relationships also depends on whether the relationships are binary or n-ary and on the cardinality of the relationship . |
| 8 | 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) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The car never felt as if it was going to come good . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Steel-grey light at the windows , opaque at first , then each pane slowly clarifying as if the dawn were melting frost from the glass . |
| 14 | He and Jake always look as if they 've got one skin less than other people , Ruth thought . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Natalie just smiled as if she had n't heard . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Economists yesterday disagreed on whether exports could maintain their strength at a time when many other industrial nations are in the doldrums . |
| 21 | The voice we hear is , as usual for the period right up to 1910 , an external voice : women are a group more spoken about than speaking , if we are to believe the written records . |
| 22 | The rest of the group hardly moved as if absorbed in everything the coroner said or did . |
| 23 | Not that the lad now looks as if he 's got any nerves . |
| 24 | The Report , to the surprise of some , was silent on the subject of secondary-school organization and on the strong differences of opinion then developing on whether secondary modern schools reserved by design for the less able could ever succeed . |
| 25 | These data suggest that , for both men and women , outcome significantly depended on whether their wishes were considered , or , alternatively , that their wishes were taken more seriously in less serious cases . |
| 26 | Manufacturers of ‘ specials ’ custom-build their chips to suit particular applications , in the same way as , for instance , a boat manufacturer might tailor his products differently depending on whether the customer plans an ocean voyage or an afternoon on the Norfolk Broads . |
| 27 | All of this has changed , first through such departures as day-release apprenticeships , second through what Gauntlett darkly refers to as ‘ explaining the facts of life to the staff . ’ |
| 28 | ( a beating ) Though my whole inside felt as if clutched in an icy grip , I had gone too far to retreat . |
| 29 | The future of these private establishments largely depends on whether , after April 1993 , the local authority will agree to continue funding such residents ; a decision which will be influenced , hopefully , by whether the quality of care provided in these establishments is acceptable to local authorities , and whether standards can be maintained and improved by local authority monitoring procedures . |
| 30 | His eyes roved to the perimeter fences where the lights still shone as if in defiance of the coming day . |