Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] if it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It costs £100000 a minute to produce top quality graphics , on a computer system costing £10 million , so the people paying do not want something that looks as if it was shot with a camera for a few thousand pounds . |
| 2 | The room looks as if it was hit by a howitzer . |
| 3 | At the very least , the exhibition provides food for thought : as the 21st century nears , do we really want architecture that looks as if it was built in the 18th ? |
| 4 | This kitchen extension is an excellent example of how it should be done : it looks as if it was built at the same time as the rest of the house |
| 5 | This is the reason for the internal head-band in helmets which looks as if it was put in in order to provide ventilation . |
| 6 | Looks as if it was designed in a multi-million pound research and development department ? |
| 7 | A mountain that looks as if it was designed by the ancient Egyptians , instead of by God , and his advisers ! |
| 8 | The only let-downs are cabin styling which looks as if it was lifted directly from the Corolla and an overall lack of identity . |
| 9 | The tune sounds as if it was dictated to Rose Fox by a three-year-old child . |
| 10 | The American film-maker Maya Deren says somewhere that ‘ response should always precede analysis ’ , a remark which sounds as if it was made as an artist 's challenge to academic dryness and formalism . |
| 11 | On the basis of this analogy we may call a ring current a magnetic dipole , or more precisely we should say that sufficiently far away from a ring current the magnetic field appears as if it was created by two closely spaced magnetic charges ( which of course do not exist ) . |