Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder Denmark signalled its dissatisfaction with Maastricht and all it stands for if a batsman needs 10,000 words of multi-lingual explanation before he is allowed to take guard . |
| 2 | Does he also agree that it is an insult to all that Parliament stands for if the House meets from 10 pm to 11.30 pm to discuss matters that have already been decided in Brussels ? |
| 3 | This is a Southern Asian fish which can reach lengths well over 24in ( 60cm ) , with a base colour of gold/brown , it then looks as if a tyre has run along the length of the body leaving dark brown tread markings all along the eel . |
| 4 | He just looks as if a puff of wind would blow him away , ’ George finished . |
| 5 | She looks as if a wind could blow her away . " |
| 6 | Turns round and looks as if a bus had hit it . |
| 7 | AFTER years of lobbying , it looks as if the Government will bring in legislation to force brewers to list the ingredients in their beers . |
| 8 | With Bath to play their last match at home , it looks as if the title will once again belong to the West Country , even if Orrell were to win their last two games , as Bath 's points difference is much the greater . |
| 9 | In this case too it looks as if the decision is out of line with the most obvious interpretation of the words . |
| 10 | So er it looks as if the decision 's against , so I 'm almost sure that the decision at Johnstown will be against . |
| 11 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 12 | Number three has a quite different style of roundel and , to me it looks as if the tail stripe colours are reversed ! |
| 13 | So it looks as if the doctors and Osteopaths will continue to have their hands full . |
| 14 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 15 | It looks as if the day may not be so far away when we can all do our shopping , banking and working from our homes . |
| 16 | ‘ It looks as if the fog wants to come in , ’ she said absently . |
| 17 | It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue . |
| 18 | At present , it looks as if the craft ( which will be launched in 1985 ) will carry only test signals to start with . |
| 19 | It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality . |
| 20 | At a post-summit press conference on July 17 , however , Major said that he would convene an emergency G-7 summit " if it looks as if the GATT talks will fail " . |
| 21 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 22 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 23 | Already appearances by a whole host of top acts have been confirmed and it looks as if The Gasworks could well become one of the top clubs on the ever growing Ireland and UK comedy circuit . |
| 24 | He looks as if the pools have come up for him . |
| 25 | " It looks as if the blood flowed fairly steadily , but without any preliminary splashing . |
| 26 | It remains to be seen whether they will still be in business to take the show to London in April ; it looks as if the outcome of the Northern group may rest on the Roses game later in the month . |
| 27 | I 'm afraid that it looks as if the game will be completely ruined . |
| 28 | But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’ |
| 29 | His room looks as if the contents were emptied into it from ceiling height . |
| 30 | er looks as if the snow 's excellent does n't it ? |