Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see , we usually take on a couple of girls locally for when the season picks up . |
| 2 | The glittering green Christmas decorations which had been Sellotaped to the ceiling and walls swayed crazily as if the whole office block was tilting . |
| 3 | And a short while before that , while one of them was getting some tools or something from the van , a car drove past quite slowly as if the driver was looking for somewhere . |
| 4 | All you have to do , with any of these research methods and findings , is to decide which answer ( if any ) tells you the most about whether the commercial is any good . |
| 5 | I got some of that washing powder these were all on about and a few of them had got it , automatic washing powder , it 's only one ninety nine for a three point five box . |
| 6 | There were all sorts of arguments went on between and the central defender that 's Phil on loan from Sheffield Wednesday tonight with playing at left back , and what was doing , well maybe could explain to because I could n't fathom it either myself . |
| 7 | She saw that Talvi 's frizzled up as it met Rosa 's , like a brand which is doused , and she also saw that Rosa did not notice , but went on as if a bubbling sulphurous spring rose inside her . |
| 8 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 9 | It is rather as if a burglar , when sued for the recovery of the stolen property or its value , sought contribution from a security guard who , by falling asleep while on duty , had made the burglary possible . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's this , Sep ? ’ said Tom Tedder , coming in from his last class , and acting rather as if a load was now off his mind , or as if he was trying to conceal one . |
| 11 | They had blocked the street off , rather as if an armed siege was in progress . |
| 12 | Similarly , it should not be assumed that the discovered attitude is necessarily any ‘ truer ’ than the preceding one , rather as if an unconscious motivation had been dragged from the gloom of the id into the bright light of the ego . |
| 13 | Since Lewis was to go on to become a faithful and devoted Christian , he writes rather as if the ‘ conversion ’ were a fait accompli , after which nothing could be the same . |
| 14 | It was rather as if the author — for all the breadth of his experience which he was constantly insisting upon — had never quite grown up . |
| 15 | Beginning in 1970 , experiments in Oxford on sheep and monkeys have demonstrated that for several weeks before birth the foetus in the uterus makes periodic breathing movements , rather as if the developing foetus were practising what it would have to do immediately after birth , and that shortage of oxygen to the foetus arrested these breathing movements . |
| 16 | er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement . |
| 17 | as if something within them had sharpened to awareness , or perhaps as if the darkling forest had wakened their strange ancestry and quenched the Human side of them . |
| 18 | It was held that the income arising from the £2M was to be assessed basically as if a new source of income had arisen , ie there had been an addition to the account within s66(3) and the income arising from the addition would be assessed on an actual basis during the early years . |
| 19 | to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against . |
| 20 | The man examined the card quizzically as if the rectangle of plastic was a conundrum . |
| 21 | Why was she making excuses anyway ? she scoffed , as a flick of a glance to the small and feminine watch on her wrist showed she should leave her room to be ready to go down for when the taxi arrived . |
| 22 | His very own face frowned back at him doubtfully as if a homunculus was imprisoned in the card , a mute model of himself . |
| 23 | Nor will our evidence tell us anything satisfactory about whether birth-rates and death-rates were rising or falling , still less about whether the age of marriage was shifting . |
| 24 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 25 | It was the first time she 'd ever spoken to Aunt Sarah and come away with this feeling of no comfort , no help , weighing her down as if the big brass door stop from the porch had got lodged inside her . |
| 26 | She used to look me up and down as if the Brownie uniform was really nothing to get excited about , and say smugly , ‘ Rainbows wear green Nuforms ! ’ |
| 27 | So for but the new trousers are gon na go ! |
| 28 | The picture obtained may be compared with an event being filmed from a distance as a series of still shots with some blank shots in between and no close-ups . |
| 29 | A a server here and a few clients there networking in between and the systems may have been relatively small in terms of their total hardware capacity . |
| 30 | It 's all gone dark , there 's an enormous teacher in between and the sun . |