Example sentences of "[is] [prep] if [pron] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if you 'd gone out into the bigger world and found out that it 's frightening or that it hurts , so you go home . |
| 2 | So that divided forty-nine point two three four by ten and it 's as if I 've moved the point one place back . |
| 3 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
| 4 | He 's just like a child , Joe thought , it 's as if I 've taken his toys away from him . |
| 5 | It 's as if I 've wasted my life searching for something that was never lost in the first place . |
| 6 | Herriot quite skilfully opens up with one or two of the more moving tales , and stitches it all back together again , quite painlessly , but when you wake up at the end , it is as if nothing had happened . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In some areas it is as if nothing has changed , and in other areas there are some quite bizarre decisions . ’ |
| 8 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 9 | When we feel the peak experience , it is as if we have struck one note of the human nightingale , but the human song will be very long and very beautiful and few there are that have heard the symphony of their own being . |
| 10 | It is as if we have frozen the beauty or anaesthetized it in an image ; but the images are like the humming birds of a museum case , the real and living beauty is incomparably brighter for those birds are gems that flash their iridiscent colours in a tropical forest . |
| 11 | It is as if everyone had decided to follow to the letter the advice sent out to UDF candidates by Jean-Pierre Raffarin , the centre-right party 's expert on political marketing . |
| 12 | It is as if somebody had slipped an extra sheet of paper between the pages of the book which now , at one point consists of perhaps a million pages , at another of a million and one . |
| 13 | It is as if she has opened herself up and not lied but she has still timed her ‘ coming out ’ . |
| 14 | In her decoration ‘ Lilith ’ ( Museum Boymans-van Beuningen , Rotterdam — watercolour sketch at the Tate Gallery ) it is as if she has taken one of these nudes and stood her against a tree , where , with arms wrapped around her head and one leg twisted into the other she writhes provocatively for the pleasure of the viewer . |
| 15 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 16 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |
| 17 | It is as if he had spent several weeks at the headquarters of MI6 learning the techniques of counter-interrogation . |
| 18 | Every moment then has significance and an aura of delight surrounds everything and it is as if he had found a rare wellbeing and joy . |
| 19 | When the human voyager has freed himself from his fears and accomplished all his physiological needs , it is as if he has climbed out of a deep pit and reached the top of a high hill from where he sees a vast land stretching in every direction . |
| 20 | So what you 're doing , in fact is to if you 've got a hundred and twenty percent if you divide that by of a hundred in other words , you move your decimal point two places that 's a decimal . |