Example sentences of "[prep] if [pron] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How about if there were six of us and we all got one pound each so we 'd have six lots of one . |
| 2 | Right how about if there were six of us and we got none each no one got any how many would there be altogether . |
| 3 | it 's not as , it 's not as , it 's not as if they 're right in that corner as you come in from , from er Farnsfield , a a a as Mike said there 's a twenty foot fe hedge there , which is going to be kept . |
| 4 | One of the problems is that some doctors still behave as if they are deserving of awe , or as if patients are fools , when every patient is an expert on himself , at least . |
| 5 | By making products sound as if they are good for the environment , manufacturers can ‘ attract extra sales from around a third of the population ’ . |
| 6 | It is likely that he belonged to the friary in Nottingham ( he refers to the rivers Trent and Derwent as if they are familiar to him ) . |
| 7 | The masked executioners walked round as if they were involved in some artistic endeavour , positioning the faggots for the best effect . |
| 8 | Other commentators , unlike Clark , cite their favoured items of behavioural evidence for self-consciousness as if they were authoritative without further argument . |
| 9 | The availability of similar speeds across the network could make the future remote facilities as intuitive and supportive as if they were all on the user 's desktop . |
| 10 | Where the rights in question are spelt out , they are often lumped together , as if they were all of the same kind . |
| 11 | Instead of a series of national financial systems linked by a few operators buying and selling credit across the exchanges , we now have a global system , in which national markets , physically separate , function as if they were all in the same place . |
| 12 | Finnigan has demonstrated how misleading it is to describe ‘ primitive societies ’ as if they were all in some way ‘ dominated by kinship ’ ( Finnigan , 1970 , pp. 1 7 1–94 ) , and Laslett and his associates at Cambridge have shown how , in many ways , the composition of the family in pre-industrial England was similar to that of the family of today ( Laslett , 1965 ) . |
| 13 | This kind of statement contrasts very sharply with the maps and lists of traditional dialectology , where elements are generally treated as if they were categorical within a given region . |
| 14 | Whatever he heard me say , some time later I was led out of the doors and taken to rooms they said were mine , as if they were pleased about it . |
| 15 | Even those who do not share his political opinions readily pay their tribute to the range of his intellect and the graciousness of his character ; more remarkable still , even those whose intellectual qualities are the equal of his , but whose moral qualities have degenerated in contact with the sordid atmosphere of politics , never speak of him with an affected amusement as a religious bigot or a narrow-minded moralist ; in the remarks of these latter politicians I often detect a tone of rather wistful regret , as if they were conscious in themselves of a loss for which the world they have gained has by no means compensated . |
| 16 | It heals us of depression and sadness , as if they were intrinsic to the kind of person I believe myself to be . |
| 17 | They may have been intending to talk about reform of the Labour Party constitution , but what ordinary trade unionists heard was senior members of the Party talking as if they were ashamed of the trade union connection . |
| 18 | He glanced up and looked at her again and just for a moment it was as if they were alone in the midst of the hubbub of the fairground . |
| 19 | as if they were stuck in the 1950s , the civil servants could see no way in which consumer , environmentalist or the broader public interest could be represented . |
| 20 | Nobody 's going to know officially and it 's not as if there are hundreds of you or anything — I mean , so what if somebody does find you ? |
| 21 | Deirdre is Scottish herself , so it 's not as if she 's new to wide skies and stirring views , but Orkney surpasses all she 's known before . |
| 22 | Dana 's shrill voice made Claudia jump away from Roman as if she were guilty of something , but Roman had only been about to say he had asked Dana to model for him in order to get to know her better . |
| 23 | He looked down at her , about to kiss her good-night as if she were one of Francesca 's friends , and pulled himself up . |
| 24 | It was n't as if she were married to him . |
| 25 | Lee listened to the patio door closing quietly , and felt ashamed , ignoble , as if she were embarrassed about having had an epileptic fit or as if she had broken wind in the middle of a fairy-tale . |
| 26 | The blessed night , even alone , brought Jay an awareness of her body , as if she were phosphorescent with stars and meteorites . |
| 27 | The apartment itself was enormous and , as if she were scared of the space , Jane Pargeter had crammed it with expensive furniture . |
| 28 | And it was n't as if she was ungrateful for the financial assistance through college . |
| 29 | It was as if she was unaware of the gesture . |
| 30 | And sometimes since I have wished … ’ and here Minch dropped her voice low as if she was ashamed of what she was about to say , ‘ … well , there have been times when it seemed it might have been better if they had taken me . |