Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But not many people did see it and he was left with a clutch of good notices , a prospect of the West End which would say no , most times , to the sort of plays he was right for and a generous offer from Anthony Quayle to come back to Shakespeare in Stratford and tackle the next range of roles .
2 Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun .
3 Although it er the numbers are small it appears from that as if the response of the marker tumour to Pasteur B G C might be better than to Evans but I can assure that there is no statistical difference in those values .
4 He was now using his powers to remind me of that as if the matter he was about to broach was more important than any spy .
5 What did he pay that for and the old post office he got them , it was cheap
6 The budget of the Horton generally puts day to day work has got to better reflect the fact that there 's a growing district Hospital , and has got to better reflect the size of the population it serves , and then also about a third of the patients that are treated at the Horton come from Warwickshire , Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire , but actually the Horton is funded as if every patient there comes from Oxfordshire , and that 's clearly crazy , and we 've got to make quite sure that cross-boundary flows of patients are better reflected by cross boundary flows of money .
7 Marshal Piłsudski ordered the Polish destroyer Wicher to greet , salute and escort the British as if the Accord were still in effect , and Tadeusz Morgenstern , the commander of the destroyer , was instructed that if the Danzig authorities insulted the Polish flag or tried to interfere with the visit in any way , he was to bombard designated targets in the city centre .
8 Yet here they were needling one another as if the position of an aeroplane 's wings on take-off ; the true nature of Kennedy 's presidency or the price of fish were matters that somehow impinged on their honour or real worth as human beings .
9 He felt both excited and claustrophobic as if the cottage walls were closing in on him and then receding .
10 no asset has been acquired or disposed of on capital account or has been agreed to be acquired or disposed of and no contract involving expenditure by it on capital account has been entered into by the Business .
11 The kitchen does have that rustic look Mary Jane 's so fond of and the rest of the fittings add to a farmhouse feel , too .
12 Some of them were procedural rather than , it does n't mean that there is eleven things wrong with or the actual survey , it means that some of the things were raised during that , I think that there was a couple of things raised by accounts in that , the fact you do n't send a budget form .
13 It emerged from Romanesque into a specific style , different from but no less fine than the works of the Renaissance .
14 It made his work pattern not merely different from but the opposite to that of Asquith .
15 Utterances a and b are different in that the action specified is to follow the utterance , immediately in the case of a , but after some expanse of time in b .
16 With a daisy wheel printer the process is slightly different in that the ROM holds information relating to the position of the character on the spokes of the wheel .
17 Coordination by hierarchy is different in that the actions of similar elements ( individuals , firms ) is to some extent constrained .
18 Our study is different in that the numbers are larger , the entry criteria and the endpoints are strictly defined , and many more indices of oesophageal function have been examined .
19 The situation in the Caribbean was significantly different in that the process of " dialect creation " actually involved the creation of new languages through the processes of pidginisation and creolisation , and subsequently , decreolisation — as the Creole grew closer to Standard through prolonged contact with the lexifier language ( the language which contributed most of the vocabulary — in this case , English ) .
20 Thereafter , the fieldworkers were passed on from person to person within the communities ; thus , the informant groups were self-recruited in that the speakers were not known to the investigators beforehand .
21 The effect of these factors was cumulative in that the proportion of patients unhealed at each time point and the mean time to healing increased progressively with the number of risk factors to which the patient was exposed .
22 But Allen was only wrong in that the price collapsed suddenly to ls a pound .
23 The provocative function of po is manifest in that the initial association of the path a-g is with failure , but it increases the possibility of the catastrophic leap to the success level along the line g-h .
24 The public may be interested in whether a bid is made , but it has no legitimate interest to defend .
25 We are also interested in whether the disciplines of physical science and communications , both polytechnic courses , are challenging the authority of the older disciplines and moving them in new directions .
26 It is to be doubted if unsecured trade creditors have much , if any , interest in the state of encumbrances on a company 's property as they normally will only be interested in whether the company can pay its debts as they fall due .
27 I am interested in whether the police national computer is linked with poll tax registers , electoral rolls and telephone numbers .
28 Since creditworthiness did not matter to her , why should she be interested in whether the accused had authority to use her card , for the bank would pay whether the accused had authority or not ?
29 The way we tried to turn them er despite Bill we decided to try to turn them to become involved in neighbourhood watch schemes , which there are plenty of already , and erm they were quite interested in that the farmers that were there .
30 Airborne gets a reputation for quick service from the companies they 're interested in because the bikes are cruising round outside just waiting for a call .
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