Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 2 | There is also the question , which we shall look at more closely later in the chapter , of whether they all believe in only one god , that is to say : Are they all monotheistic ? |
| 3 | So will the determination of whether they have other rights ( for example voting ) or of whether their preferential dividend , is cumulative ( in the sense that if passed in one year it must nevertheless be paid in a later one before any subordinate class receives a dividend ) or non-cumulative ( in the sense that the dividend once passed , is lost for ever ) . |
| 4 | All pensioners have a need for income regardless of whether their previous employment was waged or unwaged . |
| 5 | In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise . |
| 6 | As long ago as 1975 a Home Office White Paper ‘ Computers and Privacy ’ said , unambiguously , that ‘ the time has come when those who use computers to handle personal information , however responsible they are , can no longer remain the sole judges of whether their own systems adequately safeguard privacy ’ , and it set out clearly the special features of computerised information systems which had implications for privacy . |
| 7 | Taken together , these problems raise the issue of whether anything useful can be said about Black women from a research tradition which has failed to engage with their lives . |
| 8 | Sort of when I first started using it at work |
| 9 | Such an obligation , usually thought of as nothing more than a reason to obey , may be based on reasons other than the authority of the law . |
| 10 | Mr Martin 's barely-concealed rage at losing what he thinks of as his little girl ( and having to pay through the nose for the festivities ) is amusingly conveyed . |
| 11 | Nick took her to a small restaurant a few miles outside Cambridge , where they both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened . |
| 12 | But Lady Merchiston called out after her , very much in her usual manner , as if nothing untoward had transpired . |
| 13 | as if nothing less would do , |
| 14 | The most disheartening part of the Terror was the way the intellectual , creative , artistic people chickened out as if nothing special was happening . |
| 15 | It was as if nothing special had happened the night before — no more than a bad dream that stays at the back of your mind long after you have woken up . |
| 16 | The tale is told with the utmost economy , as if nothing unusual was taking place . |
| 17 | He smiled as if nothing unusual had happened and said , ‘ Dinner in five minutes . |
| 18 | She could feel nothing , as if her entire body were mummified in thick wads of flavourless chewing gum . |
| 19 | She wanted — needed him so much , in spite of everything , that it seemed as if her entire heart and soul were crying out to him . |
| 20 | His lips merely brushed against hers , yet it was enough to make her feel as if her entire body was on fire . |
| 21 | He did not answer but just before she heard his bedroom door close she would swear that she heard a small chortle of laughter — as if her dry afterthought of a good morning had amused him . |
| 22 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 23 | Awkwardly and delicately , as if her own arms and hands were unfamiliar tools , she gathered flowerpots on a cleared area of ledge , took a bucket outside and poured away the green standing slime . |
| 24 | She looked very white , and somehow surprised , as if her precious youth had never met such a threat before . |
| 25 | Then woke to the empty pillow beside hers ; body stretched in delicious ecstasy , as if her sweet saint had just that second ghosted away . |
| 26 | She shook her head , pointed to the baby first and then to Sycorax as if her maternal cares in both their cases meant she could not stir a moment from their side . |
| 27 | It was an effort to move their legs but just possible , and they edged forward , past Mr Chan and Steve , past a couple of policemen — all looking as if their real selves were somewhere else and only their bodies were on Monument Hill , held immobile just as the cars were . |
| 28 | Some gave themselves fierce noms de guerre , ‘ Rambo ’ and ‘ El Negro ’ , as if their only purpose was fighting for its own sake , though even that purpose was largely wishful thinking ; much of their time was spent hanging round in the camps , doing nothing . |
| 29 | It looks as if their all coming back , their all coming from the shops where their usually their going . |
| 30 | To some extent this reflects the power relationship in the scene , because both participants still act as if their former tutor/student relationship still exists , but it also indicates Anderson 's greater interest in what Hollar may have to tell him . |