Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun sg] as [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You speak of the OTC market as if it does n't exist . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She glared at the telephone dial as if it were the young man 's face and held the receiver away from her ear . |
| 4 | Their ideal of endogamy , which treats the marriage exchange as if it were non-existent , is an example of such a mechanism for achieving peace . |
| 5 | ‘ Gavin used the Welfare account as if it was his own money , ’ Mr Georges said . |
| 6 | He took to the Cobra position as if it had been designed for him . |
| 7 | You make the pillowcase look as if it 's been washed with Brand X … |
| 8 | I never said that — Jess thought , the ground feeling as if it was weakening under her feet . |
| 9 | There is a particular kind of French personality who always pronounce the word francais as if it were a football he is heading towards less privileged mortals . |
| 10 | And because it has open server in front of it from the client 's side it looks like a server , so any of those two hundred clients or any of front end tools can have access to the email system as if it was a resource or server . |
| 11 | She was staring at the holiday roster as if it contained the meaning of life . |
| 12 | The Inland Revenue treats a scrip dividend as if it was cash income . |
| 13 | With a heart beating as if it wanted to explode I looked at the two dead men ; I had never seen either of them before . |
| 14 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 15 | Species with club-shaped spines include active hunters ( although they tend to hunt sluggish animals like other sea urchins ) and they have powerful jaws on the lower side of the animal that can munch their way through a sand dollar as if it were a biscuit . |