Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For older women , there is a question of whether it has any relevance at all . ’ |
| 2 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 3 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
| 4 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 7 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 8 | ‘ Because each shaft is slightly thinner , hair starts to feel as if it has less body and volume , ’ says trichologist Philip Kingsley . |
| 9 | The use of a common stack has one disadvantage ( if it is a disadvantage ) in that it forces stricter adherence to proper program structure . |
| 10 | Roberts ( 1971 ) is a rather special example , in that it combines personal reminiscence with careful historical research into poverty in Edwardian Manchester . |
| 11 | A ‘ trip ’ sequence twice over , in that it frames drugged-out perception through a moving windscreen , it 's a good advert for the cinema-as-drug concept . |
| 12 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 13 | Section 5.4 is more interesting , however , in that it gives some indication of the problem that false positives could cause even if LA succeeded in accessing all the intended words . |
| 14 | Hegel 's Idealism is ‘ absolute ’ in that it sees all reality as gathered up in the all-encompassing , impersonal Mind which is God . |
| 15 | In that it has some support from the International Monetary Fund , whose managing director has urged the G7 to come up with at least $5 billion or $6 billion in special funding for Russia this year for such projects , as well as for Russian companies restructuring their operations and for further reform in such key areas as energy . |
| 16 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |
| 17 | The colonial state was a peculiar extension of the metropolitan capitalist state , in that it established political authority relations at the point of production and expanded state control over marketing . |
| 18 | In reply , Freud considers the rationalist argument that murder is not engaged in because it makes social life impossible if anyone is allowed to murder anyone else . |