Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fingered the brightly coloured daisies as if testing whether they were real . |
| 2 | So the women were n't staying at home in the itched to make things for or to back or anything ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Phenomenologists therefore examine the way that police officers reach decisions about whether to arrest and charge suspects . |
| 5 | Thus evaluation can be used for decisions about whether to continue or terminate a given course , about the modification necessary for an existing programme , about the use of various teaching methods to achieve a pre-specified goal , or about the adoption of an innovation . |
| 6 | I got the drinks in and discovered that Dosh and Freddie were flat-sharing in Willesden and were both typists up from darkest Bedfordshire a mere three months before in search of bright lights , word-processor experience and more than six grand a year . |
| 7 | 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 . |