Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions , however , might arise about whether a dispute is a valuation/technical dispute to be referred to an expert or one that should be referred to an arbitral tribunal or the court . |
| 2 | [ See pp. 38161 ; 38304-05 ; for 1991 First Compensation Law on expropriated property ; the amount of compensation under both laws would be calculated as if the total claim were being made on the basis of one law . ] |
| 3 | One is to provide that the rent shall be calculated as if the index had not been adjusted . |
| 4 | Initial judgements are formed about whether the other person is friendly or unfriendly , confident or timid , trustworthy or untrustworthy , nice or nasty . |
| 5 | This was also the case when we asked about whether the police discri-minated against certain groups , two-thirds of Blacks and Whites believing this but only about one-third of Asians . |
| 6 | Can we talk about job description , because I am not clear about those , I mean to the end of the audit , I , I rang up to day and asked about whether the , who should be signing them . |
| 7 | But alack , it does no bleat and bleat as if the little heart on it would burst . |
| 8 | History is taught as if the industrial revolution , the most significant event since the development of agriculture , just happened , simply by the outworking of blind economic forces ; and as if the only people to be consciously aware of it were the aesthetes who reacted against its artifacts , or who , like Karl Marx , sought to analyse those forces and to predict their course . |
| 9 | Its eyes gleamed as if the irises were neon rings . |
| 10 | The capital gains made by the trust on 31 December 1993 are chargeable to UK capital gains tax as if the trust were a UK resident . |
| 11 | As the memorandum was written , serious concerns arose about whether the child 's interests would paramount . |
| 12 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 13 | In the mid-third century Bishop Stephen of Rome asserted that all should observe the tradition of Peter and Paul : viz. those baptized outside the church by schismatic clergy should be readmitted as penitents by imposition of hands , but not treated as if the majesty of Christ 's name had never been pronounced . |
| 14 | An interest in music that I had rather forgotten about until the thought of Millie in the lane reminded me . |
| 15 | The error of so many critics and scholars is to write as if the paraphrasable elements in literature constituted its substance , whereas the value of literature is to be found not in propositions , but in relationships , and these relationships are not logical , but imaginative . |
| 16 | It is convenient to write as if the appropriate unit of analysis is the individual as opposed to , say , families or households . |
| 17 | The hut windows were misted as if a concerted bluster of hot air had steamed them . |
| 18 | Managers can act as if the elements of a decision process or an organization are tightly coupled . |
| 19 | No wonder Denmark signalled its dissatisfaction with Maastricht and all it stands for if a batsman needs 10,000 words of multi-lingual explanation before he is allowed to take guard . |
| 20 | Does he also agree that it is an insult to all that Parliament stands for if the House meets from 10 pm to 11.30 pm to discuss matters that have already been decided in Brussels ? |
| 21 | They also disagree about whether the glands in the armpit should be removed , treated with radiotherapy , or left alone . |
| 22 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 23 | The sitting-room was long , and looked as if a child had been let loose with buckets of primary colours . |
| 24 | She 'd found no sign of life anywhere on her travels , no supporting staff , though the house and gardens looked as if an army of faithful family retainers had slaved there for centuries . |
| 25 | Everything seemed to be going well , and it must have looked as if the weight of Galileo and the rest of the scientific world might succeed and get a thorough revision of orthodox science . |
| 26 | In the early days it had looked as if the directors would be the key men in Hollywood and from all over America men anxious to use the format to say something had been attracted to the movies . |
| 27 | The coin looked as if the minter struck it on a single die , punching the image in the metal in repoussé , so hard that the inverted ear on the reverse would appear on the other side , and could be read the right way round in shallow relief when the coin was turned over . |
| 28 | She had lost a good deal of her bloom and bounce , and looked as if the sentiments of the burial service kept stabbing her to the heart . |
| 29 | who moved as if the soles were flapping off . |
| 30 | He just looks as if a puff of wind would blow him away , ’ George finished . |