Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun . |
| 2 | Although it er the numbers are small it appears from that as if the response of the marker tumour to Pasteur B G C might be better than to Evans but I can assure that there is no statistical difference in those values . |
| 3 | He was now using his powers to remind me of that as if the matter he was about to broach was more important than any spy . |
| 4 | The budget of the Horton generally puts day to day work has got to better reflect the fact that there 's a growing district Hospital , and has got to better reflect the size of the population it serves , and then also about a third of the patients that are treated at the Horton come from Warwickshire , Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire , but actually the Horton is funded as if every patient there comes from Oxfordshire , and that 's clearly crazy , and we 've got to make quite sure that cross-boundary flows of patients are better reflected by cross boundary flows of money . |
| 5 | Marshal Piłsudski ordered the Polish destroyer Wicher to greet , salute and escort the British as if the Accord were still in effect , and Tadeusz Morgenstern , the commander of the destroyer , was instructed that if the Danzig authorities insulted the Polish flag or tried to interfere with the visit in any way , he was to bombard designated targets in the city centre . |
| 6 | Yet here they were needling one another as if the position of an aeroplane 's wings on take-off ; the true nature of Kennedy 's presidency or the price of fish were matters that somehow impinged on their honour or real worth as human beings . |
| 7 | He felt both excited and claustrophobic as if the cottage walls were closing in on him and then receding . |
| 8 | no asset has been acquired or disposed of on capital account or has been agreed to be acquired or disposed of and no contract involving expenditure by it on capital account has been entered into by the Business . |
| 9 | The kitchen does have that rustic look Mary Jane 's so fond of and the rest of the fittings add to a farmhouse feel , too . |
| 10 | It made his work pattern not merely different from but the opposite to that of Asquith . |
| 11 | With a daisy wheel printer the process is slightly different in that the ROM holds information relating to the position of the character on the spokes of the wheel . |
| 12 | Utterances a and b are different in that the action specified is to follow the utterance , immediately in the case of a , but after some expanse of time in b . |
| 13 | The situation in the Caribbean was significantly different in that the process of " dialect creation " actually involved the creation of new languages through the processes of pidginisation and creolisation , and subsequently , decreolisation — as the Creole grew closer to Standard through prolonged contact with the lexifier language ( the language which contributed most of the vocabulary — in this case , English ) . |
| 14 | The effect of these factors was cumulative in that the proportion of patients unhealed at each time point and the mean time to healing increased progressively with the number of risk factors to which the patient was exposed . |
| 15 | But Allen was only wrong in that the price collapsed suddenly to ls a pound . |
| 16 | The public may be interested in whether a bid is made , but it has no legitimate interest to defend . |
| 17 | It is to be doubted if unsecured trade creditors have much , if any , interest in the state of encumbrances on a company 's property as they normally will only be interested in whether the company can pay its debts as they fall due . |
| 18 | One of the things I was asked to write about this week I think was a radio , to , to write about er what I felt about radios , you know , er , erm , so anything could be thrown at you , and obviously I have my areas that I particularly interested in and I think sometimes I get a bit complacement and I 'm writing about a , I find particularly interested in and a bit lazy , so its quite good to be stretched . |
| 19 | To find the information , the pupil had to : define exactly what he wanted to know decide how far he was able to travel to get to a sports centre find out the opening hours , which sports he was interested in and the cost of using the facilities |
| 20 | However , these bilateral arrangements were not universal in that the dollar and sterling areas were each characterized by a system of multilateral trade and payments based on the dollar and sterling respectively . |
| 21 | The line between such errors which went to jurisdiction and those within jurisdiction was a fine one , and the characterisation would often be dependent upon whether the court wished to intervene . |
| 22 | Instead the duty to disclose or abstain was dependent upon whether the trader owed the issuer of the securities a fiduciary or other relationship of trust and confidence . |
| 23 | It is true that this conclusion may appear anomalous in that the right conferred on a borrowing member by section 83(1) is confined to cases where the basic valuation is produced by an employee of the society . |
| 24 | The derailment at Dovey was interesting in that the back bogie of the 37/4 and front bogie of the first coach came off with a bump . |
| 25 | They are atypical in that the approach adopted focuses on social and historical aspects of language and language-use rather than on language as a set of abstract forms . |
| 26 | Whether Shabba succeeds outside of the reggae market is dependent on whether a major can retain the energy of his ragga product . |
| 27 | Alas , it is dependence , for whether he shall continue to love or not is dependent on whether the other will love . |
| 28 | The expression of ovarian tumours of the antigen CA125 is dependent on whether the tumour is serous or mucinous . |
| 29 | The nub of the question as to whether feminism is compatible with Christianity is that of whether a Christology can be found of which it may be said that at least it is not incompatible with feminism . |
| 30 | The question then as to whether feminism and Christianity are compatible is that of whether the equality of women is compatible with a religion which has come from a past patriarchal age . |