Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The man examined the card quizzically as if the rectangle of plastic was a conundrum . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | His very own face frowned back at him doubtfully as if a homunculus was imprisoned in the card , a mute model of himself . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 ! ’ |
13 | This progress occurs regardless of whether a child shows emotional and behavioural disturbance . |
14 | The examiner is quite entitled to set questions on any topic in the syllabus regardless of whether a lecture on it has been given or not and you should look out for the " old foxes " . |
15 | It appears to be an inescapable fact that regardless of whether a nation is developing , developed or experiencing economic decline , the indigenous population will experience differing degrees of economic prosperity depending on their particular location in the economy . |
16 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |
17 | It would comprise a basic allowance to compensate for the restrictions imposed by disability , regardless of whether the person was employed or not , together with an income maintenance element — a pension paid when employment was interrupted or employment capacity was reduced partially by disability . |
18 | This is true regardless of whether the child will be born into poverty . |
19 | Reduced lung function has been associated with low birth weight regardless of whether the child had respiratory complications at birth . |
20 | Many of the legal ‘ rights ’ or ‘ incidents ’ of what political scientists or philosophers might refer to as citizenship are enjoyed regardless of whether the individual in question is a British citizen . |
21 | To be given a steer saves time but regardless of whether the head or the local authority regards change as being large scale , well publicised , hotly debated or self-evidently necessary , it is still necessary , behind every broad picture , to make sure that the purpose and implications of specific change are explicit . |
22 | This is so regardless of whether the occupation of the male ( if any ) in the household decisively shapes the class location of the household . |
23 | If you can prove that the goods were defective when you bought them , you do have a claim against the seller and this is regardless of whether the guarantee has expired or not . |
24 | The new machines will run MVS , enabling users to maintain mainframe databases and regardless of whether the operating system is MVS or AIX , both will act as servers for OS/2-based desktops . |
25 | A spokesperson at Glasgow Polytechnic said ‘ Glasgow Polytechnic will welcome the attendance of SCOTVEC Officers at any course validation or review event during the lifetime of the project , regardless of whether the event involves a SCOTVEC course . |
26 | Yet another reason for the theoretical importance of considering how non-words are dealt with is that , according to some authors ( e.g. , Marcel , 1980 ; Shallice , 1981b ) , the visual recognition of letter strings uses the same recognition system regardless of whether the letter string is a word or non-word . |
27 | During the pilot study , because the local GPs had not been officially informed of the scheme that we were running , it was agreed that patients arriving with a GP letter would be seen by a doctor regardless of whether the complaint or injury fell within my parameters of practice . |
28 | This appears to be the case regardless of whether the innovation is evaluated by the wider urban community as being of high or of low status . |
29 | This holds regardless of whether the mechanism , behavioural , chemical or otherwise , might have evolved arbitrarily or might have been the only possible one phylogenetically . |
30 | Regardless of whether the mechanism of absorption is active or passive , the decrease in absorptive surface area , such as occurs in coeliac disease patients , predisposes these patients to carnitine deficiency . |