Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [subord] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 When he holds out his tiny arms to greet me my whole heart keels over as if a great wave has hit it .
4 The document was in the name of Mustafa Ibn Assaad Shihada Zamzam , Mrs Zamzam 's husband , and when she saw that I recognised this type of British mandate deed Mrs Zamzam 's face lit up as if a great discovery had been made .
5 The intention of the parties is determinative both of whether a third party right has been created and of the identity of any potential third party claimant .
6 Even for the much more limited requirement of a qualification based purely on whether a significant proportion of the likely distribution of outcomes gives a negative net worth , there must be some implicit formulation of a distribution and a cut-off percentage .
7 We are not interested here in whether a second investigator who slavishly follows in the footsteps of his predecessor gets the same results .
8 It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it .
9 There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground .
10 These districts were treated almost as if a presidential campaign was underway ; radio and television advertising time was bought ; mail and telephone blitzes were organized ; administration speakers Appeared and organizations like the National Association of Manufacturers , the US Chamber of Commerce , the American Medical Association and other organizations supportive of Reagan 's programme were mobilized .
11 Into the great Sun Chamber , the legendary crystal and silver hall , the place the exiled Wolfkings had called Medchuana , stole something so delicate and so strong , and so — so beckoning thought Fenella hazily — that it was almost as if a thin , sugar-spun veil was falling over them .
12 Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew .
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