Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Value for money can be thought of as consisting of three elements : economy , efficiency and effectiveness . |
| 2 | The Exodus narrative , identifying the God of Israel as the worker of wonders such as those which led Pharoah to release the Israelites from Egypt , could easily be thought of as referring to one god among many . |
| 3 | The changes emerging from the Community Care legislation in the United Kingdom , like other countries , can be conceived of as constituting in general terms a move from institution based care , an accompanying move to enhance home-based care and the development of improved mechanisms of co-ordination and enhanced case management ( Challis , 1992a ) . |
| 4 | It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight . |
| 5 | as if summoned by that anger , Tom Carey rounded a bend in the path , rod in hand . |
| 6 | Boar 's heart stuffed with cloves , lamb garnished with mint and marjoram , a swan cooked and restored so it sat upon the silver platter as if swimming on some magical pool . |
| 7 | McKillop seemed to be thinking hard as if struggling with some mathematical conundrum . |
| 8 | They walked to the lake where there were two pairs of ducks , mallards with feathers as if painted in iridescent green , and from which a heron rose on gaunt wings , its legs dangling . |
| 9 | When the couple had gone upstairs to bed , Mr Stephens packed his bag for the next day 's outing , bolted the doors firmly — for many of the men stayed in Cockermouth drinking for three or four days and would roam the streets at night looking for somewhere to sleep — and then , as if to atone for those first designs he had on Emily , he picked out Silas Marner from his bookshelf and wrapped it up as a present for her . |
| 10 | Believers then follow the practice of the person who stubs his foot on a stone and looks upwards with the cry , ‘ Oh God ! ’ as if hoping for some sympathetic supernatural spectator to be looking down on what is happening . |
| 11 | Rainbow , looking towards my mirror as if hoping for some kind of guidance , is pulled backwards through the kitchen door . |
| 12 | Across the street , beyond a wide stretch of frost-laced gravel , there was a huge triumphal arch on which were four horses driven by a goddess of peace , over whom , in turn , hung two flags , both enormous as if vying with each other and both striped red , orange and black , the far one with those stripes alone , but the near one bearing the wreath , hammer and dividers of the German Democratic Republic , and under it all , cutting the avenue in half , halting it with the abruptness of Finis at the end of a book , and behind a fragile metal fence , snow on its top giving it an odd , festive look , there was a drab grey wall made of concrete blocks . |
| 13 | The ground of the park rippled as if disturbed by colossal , underground moles . |
| 14 | Each laugh , observes Howard , looking chiefly at the laughter emerging from himself , is rounded and polished , as if cast in weathered bronze . |
| 15 | He stops , creases his brows and stares with closed eyelids into the distance , as if wrestling with some new concept . |
| 16 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 17 | as if damned to perpetual motion — decay |
| 18 | The group sat quite still as if bound by some secret . |
| 19 | Sometimes , when I made a move towards the cottage door , as if to leave on some errand , he called me back . |
| 20 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 21 | And when it was over and their tears had dried , they lay like spoons , curved together as if made for each other , and slept . |
| 22 | as if struck by invisible lightning , she felt her whole body tense and prickle with reaction . |
| 23 | Instinctively — as if faced by some poisonous animal — people moved back a little . |
| 24 | His eyes appeared dark and fixed , as if possessed of some terrifying secret . |
| 25 | You waited outside in the street for up to two hours , and then , when you got to the box office , the passes were heaped in no known order , and Tory office girls scrabbled through piles of them as if digging for hidden bones . |
| 26 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 27 | Usually he would choose the next direction without hesitation , but sometimes he would wait , head cocked , as if listening for far-off sounds . |
| 28 | as if to compensate for this , he applied military techniques in the colony . |
| 29 | Swings also moved gently back and forth in the breeze , as if rocked by some unseen hand . |
| 30 | When the man saw this , he began to walk more quickly , then to run , as if triggered by some vulnerability in Nicola that he had n't found before . |