Example sentences of "[adv] as if [pron] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One answer to it might be that there are systemic forces strong enough to propel the nation states through their orbits , rather as if they were planets in a solar system in dynamic equilibrium . |
| 2 | It has no baying studio audience so that , if you laugh , you do so as if you were part of the scene . |
| 3 | They 'd chuck their pitch-forks , just as if they was javelins . |
| 4 | This is very similar to the corresponding category for speech , and the verbalized thoughts are often put in quotation marks just as if they were speech . |
| 5 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 6 | The most direct link between the Fabians and Spencer is Beatrice Webb , who was brought up under his tutelage , absorbed his scientific method of viewing ‘ all social institutions exactly as if they were plants or animals — things that could be observed , classified and explained ’ , but who eventually shook herself ‘ completely free from laisser-faire bias ’ . |
| 7 | He kept his voice low as if they were conspirators and that annoyed her too . |
| 8 | The wind blew in a low hum , making the trees shift and rustle eerily as if there were shadows waiting in the darkness . |
| 9 | The connection was especially good , almost as if they were face to face , and Zen found himself resentful that he should be deprived of the usual screen of interference on an occasion when he could find nothing to say . |
| 10 | I go back to thinking that the best way of changing the environment of the colleges would be to try and erm I mean talking again as if it 's boys perpetrating it all the time erm boys will stop doing it if women respond differently . |