Example sentences of "[prep] if it [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were n't doing anything individual it was more communion thing you were making the likes of if it was brown bread you 're all standing rolling up and chaffing brown bread and putting them in tins . |
| 2 | ‘ What about if it was ten years ago ? ’ you may ask . |
| 3 | Although some horses will travel in horse trailers as if it is second nature to them , even without having any previous related experience ; and some horses will stand perfectly and quietly for the farrier when they are being shod for the first time ; many will not ! |
| 4 | It looks as if it 's make-your-mind-up time , does n't it ? |
| 5 | And , by the way , " he added , as if it was all part of the same subject , " I think I 've come up with the safest combination of captain and crew for your journey . |
| 6 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 7 | The Vadinamians like to stage Recovery as if it was some kind of major ceremonial — with the required assembling of all the off-worlders , the exact timing and so on . |
| 8 | He raised the bucket too , and shook it rhythmically , as if it was some kind of primitive musical instrument . |
| 9 | I swilled down the half-pint of champagne as if it was bitter lemon . |
| 10 | Every time Morris got a telephone call which sounded from his laconic replies as if it were private business , Dyson frowned at him warningly . |
| 11 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 12 | SSP is straightforward to operate and is paid by you , the employer , as if it were normal pay . |
| 13 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 14 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 15 | The scientist who hangs on to yesterday 's theory as if it were eternal truth is liable to be dumped on the flat earth — where he belongs . |
| 16 | But this time it was n't a dream — she was really here , breathing the drifting green atmosphere as if it were ordinary air . |
| 17 | as if it were any day . |
| 18 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 19 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 20 | It was disguised as if it were some form of regional assistance , whereas it was bailing out uneconomic , old industries which ought to have been modernised . |
| 21 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 22 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |
| 23 | People often treat science as if it were some sort of ‘ forbidden country ’ . |
| 24 | In diseases such as multiple sclerosis and certain forms of neuromuscular disorder the body appears to destroy part of itself , as if it were foreign tissue . |