Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He felt both excited and claustrophobic as if the cottage walls were closing in on him and then receding . |
| 5 | The public may be interested in whether a bid is made , but it has no legitimate interest to defend . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I am interested in whether the police national computer is linked with poll tax registers , electoral rolls and telephone numbers . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Instead the duty to disclose or abstain was dependent upon whether the trader owed the issuer of the securities a fiduciary or other relationship of trust and confidence . |
| 12 | The line between such errors which went to jurisdiction and those within jurisdiction was a fine one , and the characterisation would often be dependent upon whether the court wished to intervene . |
| 13 | However , as indicated by certain recent Soviet writings on the non-aligned states examined in Chapter 1 , such closer multilateral East-South military integration is not a prospect the USSR would necessarily be averse to if the required opportunities arose . |
| 14 | Whether Shabba succeeds outside of the reggae market is dependent on whether a major can retain the energy of his ragga product . |
| 15 | Alas , it is dependence , for whether he shall continue to love or not is dependent on whether the other will love . |
| 16 | The choice between going for a company limited by shares or one limited by guarantee is thus largely dependent on whether the surveyors involved are having to put up most of the funds themselves . |
| 17 | The urgency with which these facilities are required is dependent on whether the cross-reference correction is to be done at the integration stage ( 4.2 ) or at the revision stage ( 4.4 ) . |
| 18 | The expression of ovarian tumours of the antigen CA125 is dependent on whether the tumour is serous or mucinous . |
| 19 | Briefly with the SAS in the Second World War , he distinguished himself by being wholly ignorant of whether a wheel nut was to be undone clockwise or not . |
| 20 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 21 | The speller is confused about whether the e stays or goes . |
| 22 | Fine old Malmsey is ideal for after the desserts have been cleared away . |
| 23 | It is possible that the silent witness of a man 's life was more in accordance with the tradition of meditation and contemplation that Gandhi was accustomed to than the more vocal and prophetic approach of the Christian tradition . |
| 24 | The input resistance in this case is , of course , constant at as the input switch is changed . |
| 25 | The floor was bare as if a carpet had been removed , no doubt for forensic examination . |
| 26 | It was dead tidy as if no one slept in it , though there was a bed . |
| 27 | It was not clean and tidy as if the thoughts had flowed easily ; it was double-spaced , and the spaces were larded with corrections in type and pencil , crossings-out , insertions , changed words … it was very hard to make it out . |
| 28 | If th'guts 'd been griping and grinding like as if a corkscrew were twisting there , thee 'ud have done the same . |
| 29 | The reason I make this point is that while a retired architect may be covered by the PI policy of the firm he has left , that cover will only extend to the work he was involved with while a member of that practice . |
| 30 | They include a club promoter , at least one DJ and at least two dancers who 've been associated with the scene we 've been involved with for the last few years |