Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irrespective of the fact that many , perhaps most of these jobs are low paid , dirty ( even the gleaming electronics industry is on the defensive against charges of health and safety problems for its workforce ) and monotonous , they are very widely sought after and they carry high prestige . |
| 2 | In a place like mine anybody who knows my patch you , you know old or you know certain parts of or you know certain parts of . |
| 3 | His rehabilitation — from the leader they could not wait to get rid of because he represented high taxes , inflation and military failure ( over Iran ) , to the president everyone loves to cite as the model elder statesman -has been remarkable . |
| 4 | In its place , the government is to set up a " new wide ranging review " of how local authorities could help clear up polluted sites , and of whether they had adequate powers and finances to carry out the task . |
| 5 | Regardless of whether they include direct ancestors or not , the carpoids do serve to demonstrate the likelihood of evolutionary links between chordates — including vertebrates — and the echinoderms . |
| 6 | So will the determination of whether they have other rights ( for example voting ) or of whether their preferential dividend , is cumulative ( in the sense that if passed in one year it must nevertheless be paid in a later one before any subordinate class receives a dividend ) or non-cumulative ( in the sense that the dividend once passed , is lost for ever ) . |
| 7 | All of these findings remained broadly similar irrespective of whether we analysed total warmth towards parties and party leaders , total ratings for the parties ' performance on issues , or total inclinations towards voting for all three leading parties ( Table 8.8 ) . |
| 8 | Co-producer Robert Relea hit back : ‘ It 's not as if we like working nights . ’ |
| 9 | First , we all have to live and act as if we were sure and as if we had reliable knowledge . |
| 10 | We act and will continue to act as if we have free will , whether our actions are determined or not . |
| 11 | The predatory spirits , on the other hand , are described as if they bore actual malice toward humans . |
| 12 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 13 | Figure 9–3(b) illustrates the special ease where A and B have identical utility functions or , alternatively , where it is accepted that A and B ought always to be treated as if they had identical utility functions . |
| 14 | Hyam also deplores the recent ‘ willingness of Third World governments to adopt the peculiar Purity laws and conventions of Britain in the 1880s as if they represented ultimate truths about human civilisation ’ . |
| 15 | Then , as if to break the spell , the sheep dogs began to bark frenziedly and the nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger . |
| 16 | But at all times I would prefer them to act as if they have non-speaking parts . |
| 17 | He is a man of about fifty-five , with a quick ‘ nervous manner , as if he had pressing engagements elsewhere , which seems unlikely : the university has run out of steam and its faculty members are all jumping ship , if they can . |
| 18 | He could imagine Galland , a small man who looked as if he had permanent indigestion . |
| 19 | It is as if he glimpses absolute Truth in and through particular instances of truth . |
| 20 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
| 21 | He leaned forward once again , subjecting her to the unnerving illusion of being pinned by his shadow , trapped and oppressed by it , as if it carried physical weight , composed of all that he felt for her , lust and contempt . |
| 22 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 23 | Dalgliesh thought : Why is he behaving as if I need tactful handling , as if I 'm suffering from a private grief ? |
| 24 | Do n't know what she had toothpastes for cos she 'd false teeth . |
| 25 | MESSIEST DESK : Viscount Weymouth 's was reminiscent of what the world must have been like before they invented waste-paper baskets . |
| 26 | It 's much like the relationship between GM and Lotus in that we do co-operative engineering work with it , but we do n't get actively involved in the day-to-day operation of that company . |
| 27 | This is the sense that is represented by the title Aesop 's Fables : used of unrealistic stories ( Aesop 's fables are unrealistic in that they present anthropomorphized beasts and birds ) which may nonetheless present a valuable and pertinent moral to their readers . |
| 28 | Japan is a hierarchical society and the Japanese are very status conscious in that they use different forms of language and bow in different manners according to the status relationship with another individual . |
| 29 | The changes in histamine secretion may be important in that they change mucosal blood flow and thus alter mucosal defence . |
| 30 | So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed . |