Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air-gargoyles gently sucked and puffed the aromatic smoke into strange curlicues as if sketching the features of potential daemons which might lurk outside the hull . |
| 2 | Miss Phoebe noticed and pinched herself together , the tip of her tongue wetting her dry lips as if to help words to slide out more easily , but before they came , her sister was saying loudly : |
| 3 | Alternatively or additionally subjects may genuinely feel that there is greater subjective difference within the few films they have given high ratings to than within the many they have given lower ratings to and have been at least partially successful in avoiding what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms equal frequency biases . |
| 4 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 5 | I know the opposition is n't up to much but lets hope he bangs a few goals in and gives Sgt Wilko something to think about . |
| 6 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |
| 7 | We will use the methods of Chapter 7 throughout this chapter , so we write and the RHS of the x 1 -row of P1/LP0 changes to as indicated in brackets . |
| 8 | Most of my friends will buy this album and we usually waste a lot of time discussing the merits of whatever record we have recently bought , so we may well have a few arguments on whether to eat meat or not . |
| 9 | But validity can be quite hard with this sort of er because there 's , there 's detailed ways of and cross checking . |
| 10 | My surgeon was one of those nuts who , when they are n't too busy , like to have old patients in and chat about their X-rays . |
| 11 | Actually he wanted someone to give some orders to and to deal with the press for him . |
| 12 | Common-sense , or rhetorical , thinking involves the raising and dropping of anchors , not to mention the continual arguments about whether to raise or lower the metaphorical anchor at any given moment . |
| 13 | All said they were going to consult their leaders for fresh mandates on whether to continue participating in the 26-party democracy talks . |
| 14 | Careful pre-test counselling is essential so that you understand all the advantages and disadvantages of knowing if you have HIV , and can make your own informed decisions about whether to continue with your pregnancy . |
| 15 | Somebody had planted a few saplings as if to justify the name , but they looked extremely sorry themselves , sadder even than the Fir Tree in Hans Christian Andersen 's story and about to meet a similar fate . |
| 16 | He crossed to his drinks cabinet and poured himself another large measure of whisky , glancing at the phone every few seconds as if willing it to ring . |
| 17 | The knife sprang into the air , arced up a few inches as if powered by a small spring . |
| 18 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 19 | In contrast to the existing system , the new solution had to be fully flexible , and able to meet the future demands of and grow with the company . |
| 20 | Now go on , get one of your most glittery frocks on and give those kids the performance of your life . |
| 21 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 22 | Given the gun , it lifted all of six inches as if to sniff the wind , the massively muscled V8 growling expensively . |
| 23 | And so what happened was everybody downed tools at and come out on strike you see . |
| 24 | Ahead were the fountains and Nelson 's Column , jabbing upwards towards the overcast heavens as if threatening to tear the low cloud and release the torrents of rain that seemed to be swelling in them . |
| 25 | These specialize in receiving large deposits from and making large loans to industry . |
| 26 | Oh my darling , I am too happy and excited to be able to write all the things I want to say to you , so much is crowding in , so much has happened in such a short while and I want to pin down some of this marvellous feeling before it all rushes by and becomes more accepted — because , Betty , I do feel that we accept each other , there is a tolerance , a straightness between us that makes it all possible . |
| 27 | Beyond assignment and transfer , however , was true negotiation ; i.e. , the creation of new , independent or ‘ abstract ’ rights to protect the increasing number of bona fide purchasers , pledgees or mortgagees of bills of lading against claims by current or previous owners or possessors of the goods or bills , or by parties with legal or equitable claims against or derived from the shipper-consignor . |
| 28 | Furthermore , if the components of two tensors can be shown to be equal in a particular coordinate system , i.e. then because the corresponding components of and transform identically the equality holds for all coordinate frames including , of course , accelerating frames . |
| 29 | Is , is there a difference between owning ten acres of and owning ten acres of ? |
| 30 | She fingered the brightly coloured daisies as if testing whether they were real . |