Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [subord] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just looks as if a puff of wind would blow him away , ’ George finished . |
| 2 | The form includes a declaration to be completed according to whether a survivor of the buyers can or can not give a valid receipt for purchase monies . |
| 3 | The norm of institutional patriotism lost its force with senators no longer speaking as if a seat in the Senate was the very height of their ambition |
| 4 | The sample selected should be properly established and of an appropriate size based on whether a misstatement of a particular size or frequency would affect the interpretation of data and any points of weakness identified during systems evaluation and compliance testing . |
| 5 | Would it have depended upon whether a majority of members had accepted the actions and , if so , where does that leave the dissentient minority whose membership entitles them to rely upon performance of the constitutive treaty ? |
| 6 | Looking back , it almost seems as if a policy of ‘ build 'em up , knock 'em down ’ was being formally instituted . |
| 7 | I feel as if a bit of me had been chopped off . |
| 8 | You feel as if a group like the Spinners really mean it when they speak of tenderness and affection . |
| 9 | So it 's not his his fault but a lot of the training that we have to deliver is to do with procedures that he had n't dealt with whereas a lot of the procedures are things that I 'm familiar with there 's only some the job centre stuff |
| 10 | MATURITY IS : The understanding that if love is not viewed more as a commitment to be entered into than a desire to be fulfilled , neither will happen . |
| 11 | He must have been about seventeen and was so-pale and thin he looked as if a gust of wind might blow him away . |
| 12 | There was a time , at the end of summer , a hopeful time , when it looked as if a lot of would-be railway companies would simply vanish , like the mushrooms they were . |
| 13 | The first relates to whether a set of standard conditions should govern the contract in the first place , and the second ( in the case where the parties exchange their respective sets of standard conditions ) to the question of which set shall govern the contract between the parties ( the so-called " battle of the forms " ) . |
| 14 | In terms of the simple free volume concept each chain end requires more free volume in which to move about than a segment in the chain interior . |
| 15 | Carey looked worried and Doctor Agrippa sat as if a spectator at some masque or mummer 's play . |
| 16 | I think you have to when a lot of people rely on you . ’ |