Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He felt both excited and claustrophobic as if the cottage walls were closing in on him and then receding . |
| 5 | The public may be interested in whether a bid is made , but it has no legitimate interest to defend . |
| 6 | It is to be doubted if unsecured trade creditors have much , if any , interest in the state of encumbrances on a company 's property as they normally will only be interested in whether the company can pay its debts as they fall due . |
| 7 | The line between such errors which went to jurisdiction and those within jurisdiction was a fine one , and the characterisation would often be dependent upon whether the court wished to intervene . |
| 8 | Instead the duty to disclose or abstain was dependent upon whether the trader owed the issuer of the securities a fiduciary or other relationship of trust and confidence . |
| 9 | Whether Shabba succeeds outside of the reggae market is dependent on whether a major can retain the energy of his ragga product . |
| 10 | Alas , it is dependence , for whether he shall continue to love or not is dependent on whether the other will love . |
| 11 | The expression of ovarian tumours of the antigen CA125 is dependent on whether the tumour is serous or mucinous . |
| 12 | Briefly with the SAS in the Second World War , he distinguished himself by being wholly ignorant of whether a wheel nut was to be undone clockwise or not . |
| 13 | The input resistance in this case is , of course , constant at as the input switch is changed . |
| 14 | The floor was bare as if a carpet had been removed , no doubt for forensic examination . |
| 15 | If th'guts 'd been griping and grinding like as if a corkscrew were twisting there , thee 'ud have done the same . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | First , for each subject on each repetition we start with a data matrix of eight columns : g , a dummy taking the value 0 or 1 depending upon whether the subject did the experiment in a group or individually ; a , a dummy indicating the attempt number ( 1 or 2 ) ; t , the period number ; X t , the output chosen by that subject on that attempt and in that period ; p t , the proportion of ( post-production ) stock sold by that subject on that attempt and in that period ; P t , the output price in that period ; σ , the relevant standard deviation of the price distribution for that subject in that attempt ; and k , the relevant storage cost for that subject on that attempt . |
| 18 | ( 7.1 ) and ( 7.2 ) we see that the phase relationship between the fundamental component of phase voltage and the time variation of rotor position must be equal to if the pull-out torque is required . |
| 19 | Standing still was important for if the conker was swaying about , the striker had a free go . |
| 20 | Scientific theories of biologically-based sexual difference were important for as the status of scientific explanation increased , so the arguments became harder to refute . |
| 21 | We should be concerned about whether a science teacher is available to teach a science lesson , or whether the only person available is someone trained over a very short period . |
| 22 | While many users have developed joyous fantasies about what a 256 megabit DRAM will do for them , others are somewhat concerned about whether an alliance between these three giants will adversely affect the performance of the DRAM market . |
| 23 | Harriet Jarman sat erect as if the noise had helped her solve whatever had been troubling her . |
| 24 | For a second or so we are undecided about whether the patch is an after-image or a spot of mildew on the wall . |
| 25 | Everything was white and clinical as if the child were in a hospital . |
| 26 | That ‘ Be aware ’ requires one to perceive or imagine from all relevant viewpoints is wholly independent of whether the viewpoint to which one is confined in perceiving is freely mobile , carried forward by time , or permanently fixed . |
| 27 | In keeping with the analogy , Campbell holds that the variations are ‘ blind ’ — that we come up with a particular hypothesis is not determined by our current experience , is independent of whether the hypothesis is in fact going to prove true or successful , and is not a correction of previous unsuccessful hypotheses . |
| 28 | For example , the final black-hole state is independent of whether the body that collapsed was composed of matter or antimatter , and whether it was spherical or highly irregular in shape . |
| 29 | After all , teachers are not generally too concerned with whether a child learns exactly what the average length of a brontosaurus was , or exactly how wide apart railway lines are , but they should be concerned that the child has the skills necessary to find out that information should it be required . |
| 30 | The case was concerned with whether a child under the age of 16 years could be given contraceptive advice without the consent of her parents . |