Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these particle facts can be put together in the following way : A state ( the photon polarised along x " ) can be thought of as composed of a combination ( the technical term is a superposition ) of other states ( the photon polarised along y , which is transmitted , and the photon polarised along x , which is not transmitted ) . |
| 2 | Electromagnetic energy can be thought of as moving in a wave-like pattern at the speed of light . |
| 3 | He referred , perhaps a little ironically , to the respect in which it was held , and he remarked how each issue was spoken of as containing besides a noteworthy article or two , ‘ the usual brilliant batch of reviews ’ . |
| 4 | This step is the preparatory part of the process and in its ideal form it produces an electron in one of those well-defined states of motion which we have learnt to think of as represented by a vector in a vector space . |
| 5 | In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order . |
| 6 | Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell . |
| 7 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 8 | Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden recollection , gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into the gloom . |
| 9 | It floats above us , gleaming in the darkness as if supported on a cloud of talk and booze while the people below swarm and chat and roar Andy on ; the champagne — already dripping down off the edges of the table onto the temporary matting beneath from spillages — is almost overflowing the second-last level of glasses . |
| 10 | But as if fixed to a wall there . |
| 11 | He paused after each question , stared over our heads , then jerked out the next as if reading from a cueboard behind us . |
| 12 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ she said as if reading from a Gestapo training manual . |
| 13 | The shuttle stopped , trembling , as if straining at a leash . |
| 14 | So are Barcelona under Johan Cruyff , as if participating in a benign conspiracy : two good results for Real and the Toshack era takes off . |
| 15 | Both sides were scrupulously polite , as if participating in a chess tournament . |
| 16 | Think about Elizabeth I , for instance , flirting with her ministers and conducting affairs of state as if participating in a ritualised love affair . |
| 17 | The skylight in the ceiling looked as if covered by a dark purple cloth . |
| 18 | At that moment , emerging from the saloon below as if propelled from a circus cannon , there appeared a distinctly grotesque figure . |
| 19 | He was black , too , as if coated with a layer of paint . |
| 20 | According to David Hume , Locke was not alone in thinking that visual perception involves something two-dimensional : ‘ It is commonly allowed by philosophers that all bodies which discover themselves to the eye appear as if painted on a plain surface . ’ |
| 21 | This triggers chemical changes in your body , which reacts as if threatened by a foreign substance . |
| 22 | The fixed duration , the stereotypy , of the growth phase , makes it possible for particular things to happen at particular times during embryonic development , as if governed by a strictly observed calendar . |
| 23 | He cast a sidelong glance through the window , as if ruminating on a philosophical problem . |
| 24 | Her face looked rough-hewn , as if carved from a cliff . |
| 25 | as if moved by a key , her own head turned until she confronted him . |
| 26 | Ockleton pointed in turn at a broadly built man smiling conventionally towards the camera and a short , fleshy fellow beside him raising a glass as if to join in a toast . |
| 27 | He looked at me and chewed his bottom lip as if searching for a remnant of breakfast . |
| 28 | He spoke pleasantly , as if passing on a gem of advice to a good friend . |
| 29 | It invites us — as if calling upon a godly power which is its superior . ’ |
| 30 | On the top of the cart , as if resting on a bed of cushions , a young boy with breeches cut high above the knee lay fast asleep . |