Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he exited so violently down the throat of Hell that he ripped the tongue and set the snout bobbing as if Hell were about to sneeze . |
| 2 | In addition to such gaps , private medical insurance can also face third party payment problems , leading to exploding costs : where doctors are paid a fee for service , and treatment is paid in full by their insurance company , both doctor and patient can act as if care were free , which encourages excessive use of expensive medical resources . |
| 3 | Happiness is as hard to write about as sexuality ! |
| 4 | He 'd been pleased with his magnanimous administration of justice , but this new development looked as if advantage was being taken of weakness . |
| 5 | You 're alright at maths , so it looks as if maths might as a scientist possibly might be |
| 6 | Looks as if Lotus Development Corp is being shopped around as a merger partner : according to the Wall Street Journal , Borland International Inc 's Philippe Kahn discussed a possible merger with Lotus 's Jim Manzi last month , although the talks were inconclusive , and elsewhere Manzi was seen to have been in deep discussions over dinner with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Scott McNealy ; Lotus of course tried and failed to merge with Novell Inc . |
| 7 | Now it looks as if history may be repeated . |
| 8 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 9 | It is well known that the pressure inside a star resists the gravitational collapse , and yet it now looks as if pressure can , by virtue of contributing to a component of the stress-energy tensor , hasten gravitational collapse . |
| 10 | This is startlingly lower than the figures of over half reported from eastern Europe and the Far East ; and it also looks as if co-residence was much more common in southern France , and also in post-colonial America . |
| 11 | It now looks as if membership of the slate is rapidly becoming a disadvantage . |
| 12 | However , when you meet Sean Young she 's disarmingly polite and looks as if butter would n't melt in her mouth . |
| 13 | It looks as if agreement with someone is near , though , because Phillips hopes to have a deal ready for presentation to a vital meeting of the Second , Third and Fourth Division clubs at Walsall on April 27 . |
| 14 | Most of the time he 'd nothing more serious to worry about than squirrel shit on the seats if ever he left the windows open . |
| 15 | Turning now to antitrust policy , a major difference among advanced industrial countries in respect of their policy towards collusion lies in whether collusion is in most instances per se illegal , as in the US , or whether attention is directed at appraising the results of collusive behaviour , as for example in the UK . |
| 16 | Countries disagree on whether incineration with energy recovery should count towards recycling targets ( as in France and Sweden ) or not ( as in Germany ) . |
| 17 | Because papers and cards do not move about , and also accept adhesives easily , they are much easier to work on than fabric , and so are perfect for beginners , as well as anyone looking for different and unusual effects . |
| 18 | The law needs to be looked at because glue-sniffing is an appalling addiction . |
| 19 | Often capital gains from unproductive assets have been easier to come by than profit from investment or from working . |
| 20 | This involves working mentally and physically to keep distractions at bay , guarding the tongue to speak little and to the point , taking especial care not to misrepresent others , living as if death might come tomorrow and balancing the needs of the body with the longings of the spirit in discretion . |
| 21 | ‘ I adore little Madge , ’ said Dame Edna , glaring after she closed the door and looking as if murder was more on her mind , ‘ but frankly , she gets too big for her boots sometimes . |
| 22 | When children acquire more than one language at once , they too begin by acting as if Contrast applied at one level only when they themselves are speaking . |
| 23 | The intensity of her response to him a minute ago filled her with self-loathing , but she was afraid too , because suddenly it seemed as if hatred was no longer enough to counter the threat he presented , and yet it was the only answer she possessed . |
| 24 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 25 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 26 | The horns have also been sought after as dagger handles by rich Arabs and this involves the killing of the animals . |
| 27 | I said that the answer depends upon whether life has arisen only once , or many times . |
| 28 | It has been said more than once in the decided cases that section 7(4) can not receive different constructions according to whether resort to the subsection arises for one of the reasons under section 7(3) or because the driver exercises his right to claim to have his breath specimen replaced under section 8(2) . |
| 29 | Talk about variations in vocabulary according to purpose , topic and audience and according to whether language is spoken or written , eg slang , formal vocabulary , technical vocabulary . |
| 30 | It depends on whether participation is voluntary and on whether it was known to involve normative consequences . |