Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 2 | So will the determination of whether they have other rights ( for example voting ) or of whether their preferential dividend , is cumulative ( in the sense that if passed in one year it must nevertheless be paid in a later one before any subordinate class receives a dividend ) or non-cumulative ( in the sense that the dividend once passed , is lost for ever ) . |
| 3 | All pensioners have a need for income regardless of whether their previous employment was waged or unwaged . |
| 4 | In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise . |
| 5 | As long ago as 1975 a Home Office White Paper ‘ Computers and Privacy ’ said , unambiguously , that ‘ the time has come when those who use computers to handle personal information , however responsible they are , can no longer remain the sole judges of whether their own systems adequately safeguard privacy ’ , and it set out clearly the special features of computerised information systems which had implications for privacy . |
| 6 | Mr Martin 's barely-concealed rage at losing what he thinks of as his little girl ( and having to pay through the nose for the festivities ) is amusingly conveyed . |
| 7 | She wanted — needed him so much , in spite of everything , that it seemed as if her entire heart and soul were crying out to him . |
| 8 | She could feel nothing , as if her entire body were mummified in thick wads of flavourless chewing gum . |
| 9 | His lips merely brushed against hers , yet it was enough to make her feel as if her entire body was on fire . |
| 10 | He did not answer but just before she heard his bedroom door close she would swear that she heard a small chortle of laughter — as if her dry afterthought of a good morning had amused him . |
| 11 | She felt as if her own emotions had been tossed brutally into a whirlwind . |
| 12 | Awkwardly and delicately , as if her own arms and hands were unfamiliar tools , she gathered flowerpots on a cleared area of ledge , took a bucket outside and poured away the green standing slime . |
| 13 | She looked very white , and somehow surprised , as if her precious youth had never met such a threat before . |
| 14 | Then woke to the empty pillow beside hers ; body stretched in delicious ecstasy , as if her sweet saint had just that second ghosted away . |
| 15 | She shook her head , pointed to the baby first and then to Sycorax as if her maternal cares in both their cases meant she could not stir a moment from their side . |
| 16 | It was an effort to move their legs but just possible , and they edged forward , past Mr Chan and Steve , past a couple of policemen — all looking as if their real selves were somewhere else and only their bodies were on Monument Hill , held immobile just as the cars were . |
| 17 | Some gave themselves fierce noms de guerre , ‘ Rambo ’ and ‘ El Negro ’ , as if their only purpose was fighting for its own sake , though even that purpose was largely wishful thinking ; much of their time was spent hanging round in the camps , doing nothing . |
| 18 | To some extent this reflects the power relationship in the scene , because both participants still act as if their former tutor/student relationship still exists , but it also indicates Anderson 's greater interest in what Hollar may have to tell him . |
| 19 | The Germans have had to accept some unpleasant facts such as French posession of nuclear weapons that are stationed on German frontiers as if their main purpose was to prevent a repeat of 1870 , 1914 , and 1940 . |
| 20 | Leeds began as if their miserable Anfield record was no more than a myth and Liverpool had the indignity of being pinned in their penalty area in front of an affronted Kop . |
| 21 | 1985 ) , as if their underlying assumptions were in line with the principles of normalisation , highlights the apparent feeling amongst professionals that all that is necessary is to change the name and call what they are doing ‘ normalisation ’ and all will be well . |
| 22 | as if their silent company were charged |
| 23 | She felt panicky , as if something precious deep within her was menaced by his closeness , and once again as shockingly unsure of herself as she had always been in his presence six years ago . |
| 24 | It 's as if his actual presence were some kind of inconvenience , like going to the toilet , as if his body were a mere nuisance . |
| 25 | It was now obvious that the horse was a stayer and yet Harry Short 's stable jockey had recently ridden him as if his best distance was six furlongs , holding him up for a late run . |
| 26 | He pulls a second face as if his entire life is flashing before him , as if Sir John Gielgud has told him to piss off . |
| 27 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 28 | He felt numb , as if his entire body had been pumped full of novocaine . |
| 29 | But , since last night he had felt totally vulnerable and defenceless , as if his familiar world had suddenly become a dangerous , alien planet and he was stranded on it , lost and without protection . |
| 30 | Clinton behaved as if his first year at Oxford would be his only year . |