Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] if it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Her cheek pressed flat between his shoulders , Mariana clung to Trent as if it was only her strength that saved them from disintegration . |
| 2 | He blew on his tea as if it was still too hot to drink . |
| 3 | He could picture the scene as if it were yesterday . |
| 4 | ‘ The damage that has been done in the pursuit of production is the direct result of treating farming as if it were simply another business ’ BRIAN REDHEAD |
| 5 | That is the direct result of treating farming as if it were simply another business . |
| 6 | • for the part of the payment between the exempt amount and £50,000 , first calculate your income tax as if this part were included in your income and then your tax as if it were not ; the relief on this part is half the difference ; • for the part between £50,000 and £75,000 , first calculate your tax as if the part between the exempt amount and £75,000 were included in your income , and then your tax as if only the part between the exempt amount and £50,000 were included ; the relief on this part is 25 per cent of the difference ; |
| 7 | He seems barely able to recognize us and refers to last year 's campaign on Azrad as if it were yesterday . ’ |
| 8 | His father remembers the time , the date and the agony as if it were yesterday . |
| 9 | When the adult responds to a particular behaviour as if it were socially significant , the infant is provided with a demonstration of the communicative potential of her own actions . |
| 10 | With all this technology literally at our fingertips , many people insist on using the computer keyboard as if it were mechanically connected to the printer . |
| 11 | The top section of the mast snapped at the crosstrees as if it were less substantial than a toothpick . |
| 12 | It is odd — one of the anomalies of science — that it is possible to look at a single entity as if it were either one thing or another , apparently quite different thing . |
| 13 | Joan remembers that last morning at home with Brian as if it were yesterday . |
| 14 | In this chapter we discuss the layer as if it were horizontally infinite , and thus consider experiments with large aspect ratio — accumulation of observational experience and theoretical results being needed to decide what is large enough . |
| 15 | " By heck , 'e can jump ower that gate as if it were n't there . |
| 16 | ‘ Quite a governess , ’ he said , lingering on the word as if it were especially endowed . |
| 17 | Then he pulled his head up again with a grunt of effort as if it was almost too heavy for him to lift . |
| 18 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |
| 19 | He coasts it through Southwark to the Old Vic , crosses Waterloo Bridge , heads west along the Strand into Trafalgar Square — empty of pigeons in the dove-grey light — mooches out through the West End , glides round Hyde Park Corner as if it was always free of traffic , and drops us in Earls Court like it was just the street next door . |
| 20 | Um it 's almost as if the debate about false memory syndrome is embedded in an older notion of memory , embedded in a notion of memory as if it were either literally true or literally false , embedded in a notion of memory which sees memories as things like larders or cupboards or filing cabinets and um y'know people pick the memories out and get them out and and display them to other people . |
| 21 | The vendor will then be in a similar position as if it were still the original tenant under the lease and it will remain liable if an assignee defaults unless the landlord releases to vendor in the licence to assign . |
| 22 | By 1981 the artist was using photographic imagery as if it was purely graphic material , as if the literal meanings had been dissolved in a solution of ideas and metaphors — except that the half-tone dots from newsprint were emphatically part of the image . |
| 23 | He cleared his throat as if it was suddenly troubling him . |