Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It consists of a set of vertices , which may be thought of as marking off temporal units along the x axis , and a set of edges linking these vertices . |
| 2 | Feldstein the dissident , Chernayev the thief , Poshekhonov the fraud , all reached for the Englishman as if to draw out some spark of friendship . |
| 3 | No recording of Jenkins 's music had been available for years before the Thorofon CD , and now this Astrée issue comes onto the market , as if to underline how huge a gap in the recorded repertoire that was . |
| 4 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 5 | The sound retreated , but still it was there , somewhere in the night , as if thrumming along some wire sunk in the ground . |
| 6 | Raynor came to a stop outside a thick , low door set into the wall , and stood for a moment looking at it , as if summoning up some inner resolve . |
| 7 | Chen saw how the man came across , wary of Karr , eyeing the big man up and down as if to assess how much trouble he might be . |
| 8 | And as if to point up this change Bukharin declared , ‘ Our Red Army , which is to an enormous extent composed of peasants , is the greatest cultural machine for the re-education of the peasantry , which leaves it with a new mentality . ’ |
| 9 | As the Men carried Minch away Creggan looked desperately about him as if to seek out some inspiration for the action and sign of hope that her final words had seemed to wish to invoke . |
| 10 | On Lan 's other side Tam shot an accusing look at Kim from time to time as if to make unmistakably clear to his father that he had done everything possible to dissuade Kim from his folly . |
| 11 | Then he took his hands from the organ and looked all over the keyboard as if to make quite sure that all the keys and stops were there . |
| 12 | It was eerie listening to this voice , one moment high and hysterical , sibilant as a snake 's the next , issuing from the shadows as if directed down that merciless beam of light . |
| 13 | Miss Rene flapped her hand as if shooing away all hats . |
| 14 | Suddenly he sat up , shaking his head as if to throw off all troublesome thoughts , and managed a smile . |
| 15 | He shook his head and made a movement with his hand , as if warding off some invisible threat . |
| 16 | A couple who once toyed with the idea of buying a door would rather do without than open up that time-consuming subject again . |
| 17 | Would ‘ the authorising or endorsing of industrial action ’ extend to failing to hold a ballot on whether to call off industrial action , if the rules required this ? s9 |
| 18 | ‘ People are in doubt about whether to plant out next season 's crops , ’ an Indonesian official told me , ‘ because of the elephants . ’ |
| 19 | For example , people who wish to record the activity of single cells in the brains of freely moving animals argue about whether to use very fine electrodes that can record from even the smallest cells but give very unstable recordings , or to use larger electrodes that bias the sample to larger cells but give more stable recordings ( O'Keefe and Conway 1978 ; Olds et al . |