Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] if [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 2 | After all , it was n't exactly as if he was being given a choice . |
| 3 | So it was n't as if she was being maltreated . ’ |
| 4 | The words came reluctantly , almost as if they were being dragged from him . |
| 5 | Whether it was the distance , whether the record , because it must have been a record , had been deliberately slowed — there seemed to be some tonal distortion as well — I could n't tell , but the song came with a dreamlike slowness and dimness , almost as if it was being sung out of the stars and had had to cross all that night and space to reach me . |