Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] if [pron] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gnarled old trees were drawn and modelled later on as if they were figures . |
| 2 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 3 | One answer to it might be that there are systemic forces strong enough to propel the nation states through their orbits , rather as if they were planets in a solar system in dynamic equilibrium . |
| 4 | It has no baying studio audience so that , if you laugh , you do so as if you were part of the scene . |
| 5 | They 'd chuck their pitch-forks , just as if they was javelins . |
| 6 | This is very similar to the corresponding category for speech , and the verbalized thoughts are often put in quotation marks just as if they were speech . |
| 7 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 8 | It 's not as if you were Alice . |
| 9 | He felt more uneasy about this than about borrowing cars , but considered that the reason he wanted the money for was worthy : not as if it was coke or ciggies or similar self-indulgence . |
| 10 | Not as if it were Mr James giving a treat . |
| 11 | The most direct link between the Fabians and Spencer is Beatrice Webb , who was brought up under his tutelage , absorbed his scientific method of viewing ‘ all social institutions exactly as if they were plants or animals — things that could be observed , classified and explained ’ , but who eventually shook herself ‘ completely free from laisser-faire bias ’ . |
| 12 | He kept his voice low as if they were conspirators and that annoyed her too . |
| 13 | Now this Baba Yaga lived in a hut in the forest , and it was said that she ate men up as if they were chickens . |
| 14 | If 2-DG is injected into the bloodstream , it fools neurons ( along with all other body cells ) into taking it up as if it were glucose . |
| 15 | He was wearing a disreputable pair of jeans that looked as though they 'd never seen an iron , and a grey shirt , the sleeves rolled back as if it were summer . |
| 16 | The wind blew in a low hum , making the trees shift and rustle eerily as if there were shadows waiting in the darkness . |
| 17 | Then one of the machine-guns opened up , hurling five or six of the prisoners against the wall , flinging their limbs around as if they were scarecrows and as they fell in a heap that was what they were . |
| 18 | What people have to keep in mind , and what people really should be very concerned about here in Great Britain is the fact that this is a very contentious industry , that there are a number of competitors out there who have taken to slinging innuendo around as if it were mud . |
| 19 | The connection was especially good , almost as if they were face to face , and Zen found himself resentful that he should be deprived of the usual screen of interference on an occasion when he could find nothing to say . |
| 20 | We step into the metal box and watch the floors go by as if they were years . |
| 21 | He simply could not go around labelling people , and moving them about as if they were chess pieces , just to suit his own ends . |
| 22 | I go back to thinking that the best way of changing the environment of the colleges would be to try and erm I mean talking again as if it 's boys perpetrating it all the time erm boys will stop doing it if women respond differently . |