Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers were clamped solid as if sewn into the material . |
| 2 | ‘ Little talk with Jesus ? ’ he said , and , halfway through reaching for a tube of tomato purée , he closed his eyes and froze solid as if overtaken by a large quantity of molten lava . |
| 3 | Sore as if bruised with a sore throat , consider Phytolacca which also has a hot red face and cold limbs and body . |
| 4 | She sat up in the bed , dumbstruck , her face aglow as if lit from the inside . |
| 5 | Waterfalls of white and gold , shooting stars in scarlet and yellow , Christmas trees shimmering as if touched by fairy wands . |
| 6 | She felt compassionate like a mother and wanted to help him but the wheel had slowed down until its glow had died and she stood paralysed as if frozen in the aftermath of the death of the sun . |
| 7 | He said this as if amused by the thought . |
| 8 | Her lips were red , half-open as if waiting to be kissed , displaying teeth as white as ivory , though I noticed one tooth slightly out of line with the others . |
| 9 | At times she was very subjective , at others quite detached as if floating outside her body . |
| 10 | Recently , a rectal motor complex that is not synchronous with or related to the migrating motor complex was reported . |
| 11 | For the question whether a property is present here can never be different from or lie beyond the question whether we have the best possible evidence that it is present . |
| 12 | Moreover , when words are spoken in continuous speech they often sound different from when spoken in isolation . |
| 13 | ‘ Counter cultures ’ are groups of people within society whose values and norms are different from and go against those held in the wider society . |
| 14 | Again , mathematicians are notoriously not all competent accountants ; physicists may not be interested in or fitted for involvement in industrial processes — they may not even be able to change a light bulb . |
| 15 | ( 4 ) An alternate Director shall be entitled to contact and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director [ but he shall not be entitled to receive any remuneration from the Company in respect of his appointment as alternate Director ] . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) An alternate Director shall be entitled to contact and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director [ but he shall not be entitled to receive any remuneration from the Company in respect of his appointment as alternate Director ] . |
| 17 | Because so many other lines were dependent upon and linked to its operations they are brought into the story . |
| 18 | State organizations are responsive to and controlled by legitimately elected elites . |
| 19 | It is perhaps not appropriate to insist that Zuwaya , resisting government regulation , had an image of a different kind of economic order , consistent with or derived from their image of Arab government , and opposed to the principles of Islamic socialism . |
| 20 | The court should favour a construction which is consistent with and contributes to the smooth and efficient working of the contractual machinery recognised and reinforced by the legislation . |
| 21 | Link the information systems plan to the corporate plan : provide an ‘ optimal project mix ’ which will be consistent with and link to the corporate plan , ideally over the same time period . |
| 22 | But even as she vowed to protect she was filled with terror at the unhappiness the fleeting expressions rehearsed ; pulled up against the staggering independence of this creature to experience its own ranges of reaction , its life , quite separate from and un-understood by her . |
| 23 | It is now clear that hominoids emerged in East Africa , presumably showing behaviour similar to but diverging from that of other ape-like creatures . |
| 24 | I can , indeed , assure my hon. Friend that the £40.3 million for the GEF is additional to and separate from the development aid budget . |
| 25 | Prospecting is the searching for and calling upon customers who , hitherto , have not purchased from the company . |
| 26 | And because it is always uncertain whether a new system of regulation can be smoothly established when the old one breaks down , the regulationist approach does not share world-system theories ' perspective of inexorable capitalist expansion in which all developments are seen as functional for and planned by capital as a whole . |
| 27 | He became pale and ill as if taken by a sudden seizure . ’ |
| 28 | But , as Mao grew increasingly suspicious of and isolated from more distinguished revolutionary veterans , he turned increasingly to his secretary for help as he tried to rally support for more radical , leftist policies . |
| 29 | Use a comb or brush , whichever you feel most comfortable with and invest in a ‘ tail comb ’ , using it to plump up the roots after backcombing . |
| 30 | Young John Lucas , who lived hard by and sat on Professor Ramsey 's head to recite Greek verbs , heard stories from his father of Ramsey taking on atheists in the university in public debate and wiping the floor with them . |