Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [conj] [verb] [art] " 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 | Stuart bellowed his words as if answering a court-martial and failure to enunciate perfectly at top volume would earn him a few more years in the glasshouse . |
| 3 | MacMillan has made this last song a welcome to the future as the three protagonists quietly and slowly come forwards , their hands linked , gradually raising their heads as if greeting a new day . |
| 4 | It will house a nucleus family of gorillas in its other half and we hope to be able to start a breeding programme and also to collect funds for and publicise the Digit Fund , set up to conserve gorillas in the wild . |
| 5 | His shoulders lifted towards his ears as if to help the grin along . |
| 6 | She closed her eyes as if awaiting a kiss . |
| 7 | He twitched his shoulders as if shrugging the burden of Georgina on to the new arrival . |
| 8 | Under another draft , SAS 500 , the previous optional procedure for external auditors to consider the activities of and gain a sufficient understanding of an internal audit function in planning the audit becomes a requirement . |
| 9 | He cleared his throat and looked down at his feet as if assessing the shine on his boots . |
| 10 | Start the engine and simply run over the blocks as if using a vacuum cleaner . |
| 11 | He joked : ‘ In England , if you were sent to a rugby league match at Batley on a night you had to park your car on the touch line and leave the headlights on and hope the players would run into the beam of light so you could get a picture . |
| 12 | DHAs can then concentrate on ensuring that the health needs of the population for which they are responsible are met ; that there are effective services for the prevention and control of disease and the promotion of health ; that their population has access to a comprehensive range of high quality , value for money services ; and on setting targets for and monitoring the performance of those management units for which they continue to have responsibility . |
| 13 | They are designed to help parishes to be more sensitive to the needs of and provide the necessary practical and spiritual support . |
| 14 | We had thrown grenades before and used the LRAC rocket launcher so we were accustomed to the noise and strength of high-impact explosion . |
| 15 | Whether the incumbent managers like or dislike the offer made by a bidder is only one side of the story . |
| 16 | Most often the monitor display is used interactively as the user experiments with and manipulates the output map in order to achieve a close fit to his or her requirements , and only then is output obtained in hardcopy form . |
| 17 | Strangely enough the thing that most people have problems with when installing a new drive is the ribbon cable . |
| 18 | ‘ However , if the circumstances arose , we would change our roles and my husband is completely competent at sewing things on or doing the ironing . |
| 19 | Upstairs , they switched taps on and flooded the bathroom and vandalised bedrooms . |
| 20 | 2 Bring your fingers in and wrap the thumb around the outside of the locked fingers , covering the index and second fingers . |
| 21 | The arguments about whether to join the European Community were won or lost two decades ago . |
| 22 | This modified approach may only be employed where the client has agreed to the terms of and countersigned a corporate finance engagement letter issued to him by the firm . |
| 23 | Any client ( corporate or otherwise ) in relation to whom the firm performs services amounting to corporate finance activities provided he has agreed to the terms of and signed a corporate finance engagement letter issued to him by the firm . |
| 24 | For example the extent to which patients like or trust the doctor and nurse may affect their willingness to cooperate in their treatment . |
| 25 | It has been our experience that our car service patients like and appreciate the service they receive , and actually prefer it to being carried by ambulance . |
| 26 | Shall I get one of the uniforms in and take a statement ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was brown , as far as Hoomey could see , and its ribs stuck out like his own , and its great projecting hip-bones were on a level with his head , sticking out like girders as if to hold the gaunt body together . |
| 29 | She laughed often ; a great sudden masculine sound , jerking her arms as if elbowing the air out of the way . |
| 30 | Ibn Fayoud turned away from the girl , smiled warmly and held out his arms as if greeting an old friend . |