Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 2 | Police are convinced that the clampdown has hurt the porn industry in Northamptonshire quite hard , but they say if it looks as if the illegal material is building up again then they wo n't hesitate to have another bonfire . |
| 3 | It thus looks as if the traditional Paris-Bonn axis will continue to operate . |
| 4 | Quality , premiums , yields and timeliness are what the grain harvest is all about and so far it looks as if the malting trade may turn out not too bad . |
| 5 | The 200 TDi is now fitted to the Defender range and it looks as if the old Land Rover 2.5 litre unit will be dropped . |
| 6 | Approaching the lodging house it looks as if the old harridan has got a gang together to repel unwelcome boarders . |
| 7 | Presumably ‘ he is trying to write a popular street ballad ; if so , it looks as if the stylistic crudities are an imitation of ‘ the idiom of the people ’ . |
| 8 | It looks as if the adult-onset type of diabetes is most likely to appear among those who eat refined low-fibre foods . |
| 9 | Now it looks as if the wrong side won . |
| 10 | After the recent elections , even Brussels can not govern itself and it looks as if the multilingual state of Belgium is about to collapse . |
| 11 | The position will , therefore , be very similar to that described for ransom strips in that the adjoining owner may demand a high price for the land in question or even refuse to sell . |
| 12 | When one adds to that the immense variation in the capacities and abilities of the old people concerned , the possibility of making valid generalisations seems remote . |
| 13 | On appeal to the Patents Court , it was held that where an invention involves any of the excluded materials in section 1(2) , the proper construction of the qualification in that subsection requires that the Patent Office inquires into whether the inventive step resides in the contribution of the excluded matter alone . |
| 14 | However , while the nature of the effect of feedback on gain is similar for each circuit arrangement , occurrence of a decreased or increased gain simply depending on whether the feedback is negative or positive , the character of the effect of feedback on the input and output impedance depends on whether the relevant circuit connection is series or parallel as well as on whether the feedback is negative or positive . |
| 15 | A lot depends on whether the absent partner retains significance in the parental role , and the ease with which the child can continue to regard both parents as parents . |
| 16 | What you do depends on whether the cold radiator is the only one affected , or whether others are cold too . |
| 17 | Whether a system with finitely many basic signals is a system of communication in the strong sense — that is , a linguistic system — depends on whether the characteristic behaviour within which and against which it is interpreted is complex enough to sustain attributions of higher-order beliefs and intentions to the creatures concerned . |
| 18 | To square this with interference phenomena it is necessary to suppose the existence of a strange force acting on the electron as it traverses , say , the top slit , whose nature depends on whether the bottom slit is at that instant open or shut . |
| 19 | Easily Accessible : For walkers the Dales Way passes by and the Pennine Way ( stretching for 185 miles from Derbyshire to the Scottish borders ) can be reached near Malham . |
| 20 | ‘ It sounds as if the old man scarpered . |
| 21 | It seems as if the Central Court at Phaistos was rather more public than that at Knossos . |
| 22 | Moreover , it seems as if the Thatcherite revolution has still not penetrated the dark towers of Marsham Street . |
| 23 | From this paediatrician 's reaction , it seems as if the clinical notion of deep shock as a natural reaction is itself a projection of that professional 's anxiety on to the parent . |
| 24 | At one stage it appears as if the substantive meaning of unreasonable is simply one strand of the umbrella to be juxtaposed to irrelevancy , mala fide , etc . |
| 25 | Without a detailed analysis , one can not be certain , but it appears as if the Scottish universities , with their significant proportions of general courses , are fairly evenly spread in terms of Figure 3.1 , whereas universities in the rest of the UK seem to emphasize the academic or professional and de-emphasize the general . |