Example sentences of "[adj] as [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Erm tell me something Mr C , it looks very much as if the proposal er the resolution er of Jane and , and that which is proposed by sergeant basically covers the same issue with |
| 9 | It looks very much as if the version in the manuscript came first and Purcell did some polishing before the piece was printed — in the treble clef , of course , with an eye to the market . |
| 10 | Some of these were enshrined in local guidelines , such as whether a person was deemed ‘ vulnerable ’ , or if they lived alone or had repeated admissions to hospital . |
| 11 | More useful criteria would be the type of decision made such as policy or routine ; or type of situation such as whether a crisis is likely to affect a large number of employees or a few ; or whether the problem is a short or long term one . |
| 12 | Even if it were not , there would be other problems , such as whether a book read by millions would count equally , in the corpus , with a private letter ; whether some publications ( eg literary magazines ) would be weightier , in determining the norm for the language , than others . |
| 13 | With the advent of information theory ( Attneave , 1959 ; Edwards , 1964 ) other interesting issues arose such as whether the performance of the store could better be measured in terms of bits of information or chunks of material ( the bits-versus-chunks controversy ( Miller , 1956 ) ) and the possibility that memory processes might distinguish between content and order . |
| 14 | Computer contracts sometimes provide for experts to determine technical issues such as whether the computer equipment or software performs in accordance with its specification , or the interpretation of specifications or other related technical documentation . |
| 15 | Sometimes we may apply relatively simple yardsticks , such as whether the school has or has not received the newly recommended material and whether it is using it . |
| 16 | Questions that had been submerged ( such as whether the world is becoming more secular ) have re-surfaced and been rephrased to take account of the complexities of religious beliefs and practices , and their relationship with both the individual and the increasingly complex wider society . |
| 17 | These include matters such as whether the tribunal was properly constituted and whether the case was of a kind referred to in the statute . |
| 18 | Some things , such as whether the number of stars is odd or even , are totally hidden ; we shall never , could never , come to know the truth about that . |
| 19 | In some instances constraints would be imposed indirectly through the imposition of a duty to provide reasons ; in other cases the courts hinted at the limits they would set , such as if the decision was perverse or made in bad faith . |
| 20 | Everyone is different , and although obviously some birth complications can be foreseen , such as if the baby is in an unusual position , or if the mother is particularly small and slim , in general , every expectant mother goes into labour hoping for the best , hoping that she 'll be the one to have a quick and easy time . |
| 21 | To prevent the proprietor sitting on his patent , deliberately failing to use it , section 48 of the Act allows any person to apply for a compulsory licence under the patent , after the expiry of three years if , for example , the patent is not being worked or some abuse is being made of the patent monopoly such as if the product is not being made available at reasonable terms . |
| 22 | The floor was bare as if a carpet had been removed , no doubt for forensic examination . |
| 23 | If th'guts 'd been griping and grinding like as if a corkscrew were twisting there , thee 'ud have done the same . |
| 24 | Harriet Jarman sat erect as if the noise had helped her solve whatever had been troubling her . |
| 25 | Everything was white and clinical as if the child were in a hospital . |
| 26 | That brings me onto another point which is made in the panel 's submission that people have talked all the time about the limits of traffic management on the A sixty one as if the objective of traffic management was to get through Harrogate quicker . |
| 27 | The beadles backed off , bowing and scraping as if the coroner was the Regent himself . |
| 28 | The sun was so matter-bleaching , so pure , so icy that the sea was almost invisible as if the heat and light had killed it . |
| 29 | Lucy had been saying nothing , letting him speak without interruption ; he 'd seemed almost to forget that she was there , but now he fell silent as if the vividness of the memories inside his head had made the words somehow redundant . |