Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The external assessors would have responsibility for reporting their opinion of whether a board of directors had fulfilled for stewardship responsibilities outlined in the first proposal listed here . |
| 2 | But it was confined to the specific issue of whether a duty of care existed — to establish liability , a plaintiff must also prove breach of duty , and loss caused by that breach . |
| 3 | The question of whether a duty of care exists is not in dispute . |
| 4 | This case raised the question of whether an assignee of a reversion on a lease could enforce the payment of rent against someone who had entered into surety covenants as a guarantee of the tenant 's obligations in the lease . |
| 5 | Of course it is highly likely that the corporate finance arm and the client will be contractually bound in any case , thus enabling us to dispense with the issue of whether an obligation of confidence is owed . |
| 6 | There is a close link between the vexed questions of whether an offer of employment is ‘ suitable ’ and whether a refusal is ‘ unreasonable ’ . |
| 7 | I feel as if a bit of me had been chopped off . |
| 8 | He must have been about seventeen and was so-pale and thin he looked as if a gust of wind might blow him away . |
| 9 | It was as if a couple of animals hounded from one burrow , nest or lair had im-mediately taken possession of another and started up just where they had left off . |
| 10 | Instead Beatrice retreated behind long translations of French poetry , light satire and erudite literary discussion , almost as if a part of her had died . |
| 11 | There was about her something distant and mysterious , Cadfael thought , as if a part of her being was charmed away into some private and pleasant place , even while her blue eyes dwelt upon her husband and his friend with sharp intelligence , following the argument back and forth with a kind of indulgent and amused affection , appropriate to a matriarch watching her children . |
| 12 | Mad perhaps , but it was as if a part of Mark could be preserved while she stayed with this odd assortment of people . |
| 13 | But the clog of sound she had never noticed in hospital was removed , as if a plug of cotton wool had been taken out ; that constant humming buzz of the working building like a machine or a living body around her . |
| 14 | It was the best going I could hope to see , but just beyond that wall of water , minutes away , the ground became lacerated with gulleys , as if a maze of streams had scored the ground and had been filled with sand . |
| 15 | Looking back , it almost seems as if a policy of ‘ build 'em up , knock 'em down ’ was being formally instituted . |
| 16 | Strangely , the match is never mentioned , as if a spot of gloating over an English rugby victory might be construed as bad form . |
| 17 | He just looks as if a puff of wind would blow him away , ’ George finished . |
| 18 | She had risen and now stood staring at him , trembling visibly and feeling as if a puff of wind would knock her down again . |
| 19 | Mr Lazarus described it ‘ as if a bolt of energy shot up my spine and burst through the top of my head . |
| 20 | Now , if you see a ploughed field today , it looks exactly as if a lot of pigs have been a-hoggin' and a-rootin' on it up . ’ |
| 21 | There was a time , at the end of summer , a hopeful time , when it looked as if a lot of would-be railway companies would simply vanish , like the mushrooms they were . |
| 22 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 23 | She did n't fall heavily , but lightly , as if a piece of muslin was drifting down to the carpet . |
| 24 | Reader manipulation is another recurring feature that in some ways is obvious looking at how the book is written but as you 're reading the book you 're practically living in it and when you finish it 's almost as if a piece of your daily routine is missing and because it is an integral part of your life it is hard to distance yourself from it and analyse it . |
| 25 | He looked at Pauline Simonescu , and felt a great and total relief , as if a burden of enormous weight had been lifted from his shoulders . |
| 26 | When he stormed in the door it was as if a gale of wind was behind him , and he shouted his wife 's name at the top of his voice . |
| 27 | She 'd found no sign of life anywhere on her travels , no supporting staff , though the house and gardens looked as if an army of faithful family retainers had slaved there for centuries . |
| 28 | ‘ Hullo , Penelope , I 've been doing the flowers , ’ she said , as if an explanation of her emerging from the dining room with leaves seemed to be called for . |
| 29 | So it 's not his his fault but a lot of the training that we have to deliver is to do with procedures that he had n't dealt with whereas a lot of the procedures are things that I 'm familiar with there 's only some the job centre stuff |
| 30 | The reason I make this point is that while a retired architect may be covered by the PI policy of the firm he has left , that cover will only extend to the work he was involved with while a member of that practice . |