Example sentences of "as if most " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times it seemed as if most of the students and young teachers were preparing for TOEFL and the major topic of conversation was ‘ going abroad ’ . |
| 2 | But Mary Daly , for example , in GynlEcology , sometimes writes as if most women were really little more than the programmed , robotic puppets to which women were reduced in Ira Levin 's novel The Stepford Wives ; the language of ‘ fembots ’ and ‘ mutants ’ and ‘ puppets ’ , whilst intended , I am sure , to enunciate a critique of women 's oppressors , veers perilously near to sounding like contempt for those who are subject to that oppression . |
| 3 | The senior magistrate was a large and imposing man with a round face and a bald head ; the man and woman on either side of him seemed dried-out and lifeless by comparison , as if most of their energy had been diverted to sustain their companion . |
| 4 | The rain kept starting and stopping and it looked as if most of our march was going to be in the wet . |
| 5 | It appears as if most voluntary environment bodies active in Wales have not been consulted . |