Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If market interaction takes place repeatedly , however , why is it that firms are assumed to ignore this and treat each decision as if it were a move in a ‘ one-shot ’ game ? |
| 2 | Marubeni was to make a definite decision on whether it would carry the Axil workstation products depending on reaction at the show . |
| 3 | Even so , I have noticed that the feeding pattern still follows the usual course in that you catch barbel for a spell ( maybe only one or two fish ) then nothing for a spell , and so on . |
| 4 | Other comments ( from other authors ) that you find interesting and that look as if they might be useful can go down in the blank spaces . |
| 5 | He gave me an odd look as if I was telling strange stories . |
| 6 | Her hands were splayed across his broad shoulders as if she would push him away , and for some reason she could n't seem to relax them . |
| 7 | It sounds convincing but , as I have already noted , most people who know a particular species well quickly develop a good intuitive sense from an animal 's bodily and facial postures of whether it is likely to attack or escape . |
| 8 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |
| 9 | It was said with a kind of embarrassed formality as if he , not Dalgliesh , were the host and he was apologizing for the unexpected absence of the hostess . |
| 10 | LOEX news , USER news and INFUSE , from the three national clearinghouses , are in a different category in that they are not simply national but international in their coverage of news . |
| 11 | We used to I know er old Captain he he came down as tubs came onto him and broke his neck and he er er funny part of that it was . |
| 12 | Write down this experience as if it were a dream . |
| 13 | If you want a new car , then cherish your beaten-up old Ford as if it were a gleaming red convertible . |
| 14 | I said , well I 've got to give you the funny finishes for when you come to your finals . |
| 15 | However , in legitimating these tasks , the legal framework established by the state has inevitably suffered from some confusion over whether it is primarily directed at helping families to achieve social control of their children or at ratifying state intervention . |
| 16 | There is a particular problem associated with some designs in that they are activated simply by the sound of barking . |
| 17 | The four , Emmanuel Houtekins , his wife Godelieve Kets and their two children , had been on board a yacht , the Silco , in the Mediterranean ; there was some uncertainty over whether they had been seized off the coast near Gaza by the Abu Nidal group or south of Malta by a Libyan naval vessel . |
| 18 | Just a few paragraphs in and we are plunged into the fog and grime of the capital : in 1817 the American Ambassador was enveloped in a midday fog in Bond Street so thick that he felt tempted to ask how the English became so great with so little daylight . |
| 19 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 20 | Diesel cars have many advantages over petrol driven cars in that they use less fuel , have a longer working life , and are more reliable and cheaper to maintain . |
| 21 | So we u , if we use function key F seven we move through the document one word at a time backwards and F eight is the complimentary key to that we move through the document one fa word at a time . |
| 22 | But what would happen to the reformist 's theory if astronaut too were used by English speakers as if it were masculine , in spite of the fact it has no surface gender marking ? |
| 23 | I can imagine , when we have set up the institutions and signed in principle to the treaty , the Whips coming up to me and saying , ‘ Look here , Spicer , you are talking about this opt-out as if it were a real option . |
| 24 | Some question of whether they 're liable for import taxes or not . ’ |
| 25 | Mr do you want to have a ten minute break while you consider this question of whether you would be prepared to advise the panel that you would be a you would accept an amendment to the key diagram to show one star or what ever it is you have used on the key diagram to indicate A fifty nine relief road proposal ? |
| 26 | When national stations broadcast chiefly in the shortwaves the range of different newscasts available is immediately wider ; when people have every expectation that all broadcasts will tell some lies , they use different broadcasts as if they were radio beacons for navigators of truth : knowing the position of each , they can calculate the co-ordinates of reality with an acceptable degree of certainty . |
| 27 | The reason I 'd put pu pupil comment where it is , is because so far as I was concerned the top half of that I was gon na , was gon na be filled in by staff it is a report . |
| 28 | In the Mediterranean , where many such frugivores overwinter , bird fruits tend not to ripen until winter , and show some of the attributes of tropical specialized fruits in that they are drier and more nutritious than northern fruits and can provide a complete diet for the birds . |
| 29 | alright well I 'll have a I 'll have another chat with when I get the flipping chance and then |
| 30 | And if you did palm it off as a fact , it would be no excuse that you had done it non-linguistically : for example , by including clips from Sherlock Holmes movies in old newsreels as if they were genuine news items . |