Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | This progress occurs regardless of whether a child shows emotional and behavioural disturbance . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is true regardless of whether the child will be born into poverty . |
| 20 | Reduced lung function has been associated with low birth weight regardless of whether the child had respiratory complications at birth . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Note 46 to the accounts shows the effect on revenue and reserves of adopting equity accounting for the whole of the equity investment portfolio regardless of whether the investments are associated undertakings or not . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This is so regardless of whether the occupation of the male ( if any ) in the household decisively shapes the class location of the household . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | British Airways has always insisted that it would continue with its convertible bond issue , which closes on Tuesday morning , regardless of whether the UAE deal goes through . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Moreover , this is likely to be the case regardless of whether the children now live independently or the family home is still shared , for in either case there will have been an almost complete role-reversal . |