Example sentences of "[prep] if [pron] be [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , they , they certainly look as if they are sort of intended er to heat things up . |
| 2 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 3 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 4 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 5 | Yeah , they 're quite soft anyway it just felt as if they were sort of my toes were sort of jammed up against the end but |
| 6 | Looks as if somebody was sort of passed over to the other |
| 7 | The sky was a remarkable shade of blue , not one cloud in sight , and as she looked up Maggie had a sudden feeling of deep peace , as if she was part of the land , knee-deep in it . |
| 8 | I mean its as if he 's sort of living again , you know , coming back to life . |
| 9 | I think that 's , I mean I think that 's why the , the two interesting ends of the U K press are the tabloid end , because it looks , it looks as if it 's sort of forged in the heat of hot metal and steaminess and erm the top end and things like the Express and The Mail seem to be entirely flabby in the middle . |
| 10 | The whole scene to my informant was as clear as a bell , but on reflection it would seem as if it was part of an earlier railway system . |
| 11 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 12 | Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration , and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company 's high-speed Memory Channel , which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors , and Infinity File System , which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database . |
| 13 | Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration , and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company 's high-speed Memory Channel , which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors , and Infinity File System , which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database . |
| 14 | The word was spoken as if it were part of a mystery too arcane to be rapidly solved . |
| 15 | ‘ But it 's not right , ’ said Lydia Horton , looking around the dreary little back-street surgery in the least attractive part of Oswaldston as if it were part of her grievance . |
| 16 | Since then I am called ‘ Majesty ’ and it seems to me as if I was part of a play . |
| 17 | Listen to the slosh-slosh-slosh , feel the rocking motion floating through me as if I 'm part of it — close my eyes — I 'm on my rocking chair and I 'm … |
| 18 | I 've been flung into a filthy cell with a lot of other poor wretches as if I were sack of coals being emptied into a cellar . " |
| 19 | However if you say erm oh well you know erm boys will be boys that 's natural , tha that sounds as if you 're kind of making excuses for them and condoning them , so I think you 've got to be very careful about how you use the word natural and clearly it raises the whole question of how far you can , you can push erm cultural ideals against natural constraints an and what really is the issue . |
| 20 | It has no baying studio audience so that , if you laugh , you do so as if you were part of the scene . |