Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They had apparently felt as if a burden had been lifted from them and why tempt fate by attempting to get her back ?
2 Dalgliesh wondered why it was that , when walking towards the sea , there came a moment when its roar suddenly increased as if a menace , quiescent and benign , had suddenly realized and gathered up its power .
3 He just looks as if a puff of wind would blow him away , ’ George finished .
4 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
5 That the Agenda order is strictly adhered to unless a motion is made to alter the order .
6 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
7 This is a Southern Asian fish which can reach lengths well over 24in ( 60cm ) , with a base colour of gold/brown , it then looks as if a tyre has run along the length of the body leaving dark brown tread markings all along the eel .
8 Looking back , it almost seems as if a policy of ‘ build 'em up , knock 'em down ’ was being formally instituted .
9 Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables .
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