Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The error of so many critics and scholars is to write as if the paraphrasable elements in literature constituted its substance , whereas the value of literature is to be found not in propositions , but in relationships , and these relationships are not logical , but imaginative . |
| 2 | It is convenient to write as if the appropriate unit of analysis is the individual as opposed to , say , families or households . |
| 3 | I had more important things to worry about than the time . ’ |
| 4 | This was no reincarnation of some centuries-gone swashbuckling master-mariner , but even so — surely this was n't the man she 'd agreed to work with for the next few weeks ? |
| 5 | DRDA application programming interfaces are more complex to write to than the SQL Access Group interfaces , he says . |
| 6 | A spokesman for BT yesterday refused to comment on whether the company had received instructions to cut lines . |
| 7 | However , he declined to comment on whether the council was likely to change its mind about the scheme . |
| 8 | But we can see that he had something more to work on than the Roman thirst for gold . |
| 9 | And there , as someone else said , erm earlier , organizing their party , the day of their life which happens to be also their wedding day , and those sort of parties are far more fun to work at than the far more stilted family affairs that do happen for younger people . |
| 10 | Well , I do play some , but I 'm not like ‘ the solo guy ’ because I think a good song is much harder to come by than a good solo . |
| 11 | Approval , in my experience , is usually somewhat easier to come by than the thing approved . ’ |
| 12 | President Gorbachev continues to behave as if the middle ground were still there , because without it he is nothing . |
| 13 | He managed to behave as if the politicians were fallible beings whom we hoped against hope to take seriously . |
| 14 | In a recent well-publicised controversy a group of scientists claimed to have obtained results whereby water that once had a certain substance in it continued to behave as if the substance was present even after the substance had been removed ; as if the water retained a ‘ memory ’ of the substance . |
| 15 | The British were tempted to behave as if the disparity in power between the United States and themselves was only of the order of two to one when seven to one would have been a more realistic figure . |
| 16 | The English aristocracy have , it seems , rather less to answer for than the French ; they are merely as redundant as the dinosaur . |
| 17 | Manicuring is boring actually , but it was meeting all those people , there was always something interesting to talk about because the people were so knowledgeable and travelled … you get all the kings and dukes and lords . |
| 18 | I have now had time to reflect on whether the inherent constraints of working within the structure of a commission can appreciatively reduce the impact of a painting . |
| 19 | Some people found the sing-song voice a barrier , and found the beginning and the middle easier to listen to than the end . |
| 20 | The CECOS surveyors tended to dwell on whether the houses were clean , well-kept and so forth . |
| 21 | Mendeleev resisted evolutionary speculations , and also refused to speculate on whether the chemical atoms composing the elements were the same as the physical atoms imagined by natural philosophers , the ultimate building-blocks . |
| 22 | The second question is easier to speculate on than the first . |
| 23 | There is little target to aim at because the leading hand covers the body and the elbow is near to the ribs . |
| 24 | It was almost , I ventured to suggest as if the agnostic were declaring ‘ Lord , I want to believe , but please cosset my unbelief , because the resulting tension is so delicious ’ . |
| 25 | It began to look as if a wee riot might be in order . |
| 26 | There is , however , one famous case in which it is beginning to look as if the molecular estimate is better than one based on fossils . |
| 27 | It begins to look as if the graptoloids could have been free-floating animals , of a kind without any living counterpart . |
| 28 | It began to look as if the way was clear for members of the department to take any action they chose , in the sure knowledge that their decisions on how to deal with problems such as the W family would be implemented . |
| 29 | Shrugging her shoulders , but trying to look as if the answer was ‘ hardly any time at all ’ , Liz said , ‘ However long it is , you 'll be able to see him regularly . |
| 30 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |