Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hut windows were misted as if a concerted bluster of hot air had steamed them . |
| 2 | After that , the pace of your life will begin to slow down and although confusion will reign supreme around the 26th , it looks as if a long-awaited breakthrough will materialise . |
| 3 | The initiative was not continued , but it now looks as if a new partner has been found in the shape of the Venice Soprintendenza . |
| 4 | It looks as if a false belief could never be indefeasibly justified since there would always be some truth ( even if only the negation of the false belief ) whose addition would destroy the justification . |
| 5 | The priority numbering system will be strictly adhered to unless a specific request is made by the Project Director to the New OED Computer Group or his appointed deputy . |
| 6 | His main powers concern external relations , defence and , perhaps most significantly for a supporter of the death penalty , the ultimate say on whether a condemned man will hang . |
| 7 | These matters will be looked at before a firm decision is taken . |
| 8 | Well , I do play some , but I 'm not like ‘ the solo guy ’ because I think a good song is much harder to come by than a good solo . |
| 9 | The odd thing was that , after he had entered the paint shop , he had felt as if a heavy wave of sadness had suddenly been lifted from out of him . |
| 10 | Holders of this theory would suggest that syphilis was already established in Europe in pre-Columbian days and it was the increase in knowledge and the travel resulting from the Renaissance that made it appear as if a new disease had been introduced . |
| 11 | He felt his skin tingle , he felt the fine hair all along his spine react as if a low current had been run through him . |
| 12 | Or rather , I could feel the old cautious Bodenland inside , but it seemed as if a new man , fitted for decision and adventure , had taken control of me . |
| 13 | Fergus gave a truly terrible cry , and for a moment it seemed as if a sudden coldness had descended . |
| 14 | A cinema organ is like a big jelly mould , illuminated from within , a most spectacular thing that changed colour according to whether a major key or a minor key was being played . |
| 15 | Evaluations of Soviet society inevitably focus on whether a ruling group that does not own , but controls , property , receiving a salary rather than extracting surplus for its own use , can legitimately be called a ruling class in a Marxist sense in which class depends on the ownership of the means of production and the extraction of surplus from an exploited class . |
| 16 | ‘ We are actively looking at whether a smaller-scale scheme would be viable . ’ |
| 17 | It began to look as if a wee riot might be in order . |
| 18 | Ah but it 's silly because the thing is , th the they 're , well the , th those , th those two rooms look as if a bloody tip has hit it ! |
| 19 | ‘ You look as if a good meal would n't come amiss . ’ |
| 20 | Mature evergreen trees , such as Ilex crenata , have been trained and clipped into formal shapes which look as if a green cloud is floating on each branch . |
| 21 | And can you imagine what the Harris Tweed lounge covers look like after a free range toddler has snacked and sicked up its holiday treats ? |
| 22 | On his first day , Monday , 1 February , Terry arrived at the building — which was recently opened by Sir Ralph Robins , chairman of Rolls-Royce plc — to find there was more going on than a usual day 's work ; they were cleaning up in the aftermath of a fire . |
| 23 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 24 | In their futile endeavour Joseph Chamberlain and his contemporaries were only re-enacting in modern dress the plot of the mideighteenth-century drama , by proceeding as if a common will and desire to be subordinate existed when it did not . |
| 25 | In tears , fighting back the pain , two injured pedestrians are cared for while a distraught woman is comforted |
| 26 | They have little to do with whether a given sequence is or is not grammatical . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) The adequacy of pension funding Whether or not an insurer will wish to exclude warranties relating to funding adequacy will depend on whether a recent valuation is available from the managers of the fund and whether the vendor can claim against the valuation if the funding is shown subsequently to be inadequate . |
| 28 | And yet now that he has passed away I feel as if a close friend has been lost . |
| 29 | The noise from below battered her eardrums until it felt as if a high-speed train was roaring through her head . |
| 30 | Driving back to Armscott Manor , Virginia felt as if a small bomb had been detonated in her life . |