Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [art] answer " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had stopped digging and was leaning against the spade , waiting , as if the answer was important to him . |
| 2 | Shrugging her shoulders , but trying to look as if the answer was ‘ hardly any time at all ’ , Liz said , ‘ However long it is , you 'll be able to see him regularly . |
| 3 | Roxborough raised his eyebrows as if the answer were ludicrously obvious . |
| 4 | He looked at me as if the answer was obvious . |
| 5 | He sighed , as if the answer were much too complex for words . |
| 6 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 7 | He glared as if an answer to the contrary would be taken as heresy . |
| 8 | Not only may firms be unable , for reasons of bounded rationality , to work through the complex mathematics of these models , they may not have to because the answer is to them so obvious . |