Example sentences of "[vb pp] as if [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the early hour , the eunuchs were all dressed and painted as if they were about to go out to a late-night nautch . |
| 2 | Each of the 30 rooms is arranged as if it were still in use — the Little Drawing Room was designed by Robert Adam with gilded mouldings and intricate wall paintings . |
| 3 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally disabled and are sometimes even drugged . |
| 4 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder . |
| 5 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder . |
| 6 | Moreover , older people are often treated as if they were not adult , and are patronised by journalists who ask questions like : ‘ How do you put your grandmother in a home ? ’ |
| 7 | Too often , the loss of these senses results in older people being treated as if they were mentally impaired , with people talking to them as if they were slightly silly , or as if they had reverted to infancy . |
| 8 | Lieberson in a powerful and detailed critique of experimental thinking in social research , after all one of the cornerstones of variable analysis , argues that although most data in social research are non-experimental in origin , they are " treated as if they were truly experimental data … sliced , chopped , beaten , molded , baked , and finally artificially coloured until the researcher is able to serve us proudly with a plateful of mock experiment " . |
| 9 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 10 | They were particularly anxious to avoid having ‘ topic ’ , in discourse study , treated as if it were somehow expressible by a simple noun phrase , as often happens in the treatment of sentential topics . |
| 11 | Daphne 's huge bosom and vast posterior looked as if they were about to burst from her too-tight black costume ; Rose , small-boned and slender , looked remarkably young and pretty in an aquamarine bikini that suited her fair colouring . |
| 12 | The maths master looked as if he was about to have another revelation . |
| 13 | The watchman looked as if he was about to burst into tears . |
| 14 | Artai looked as if he was suddenly bored by the whole interlude . |
| 15 | The open-windowed room looked as if it was quite far away from the main body of the Workshops . |
| 16 | When gardening he often wore very baggy trousers with braces , gum boots and a waist-length black donkey jacket which hung loose and looked as if it was too short . |
| 17 | Jacqui stood up and looked as if she was about to hit him . |
| 18 | His lips moved as if he was about to say something , but he had not formed the words when she interrupted him . |
| 19 | Indeed the gallery can be seen as if it were only ( which of course it is also ) a mere technical device for the objects to be displayed . |
| 20 | The young woman sounded as if she was n't English . |
| 21 | Luke turned to Sonny , the whip raised as if he were about to strike him . |
| 22 | If all words were set as if they were equally important , the main sense of the text would not be made sufficiently evident , and probably the music would lack decisive contours . |
| 23 | She had behaved as if she was quite prepared to be Alain 's , and she could not think of any reply at all . |
| 24 | They had spoken as if I were n't there , which in a way I was n't , as other passengers were moving round me , all asking the same questions . |
| 25 | Lévi-Strauss ' famous objections to Sartre , which appeared in the last chapter of The Savage Mind ( 1962 ) , are sometimes represented as if they were merely a structuralist attack on Marxism . |
| 26 | It was said in the last chapter that doubtful law should not be represented as if it were well established . |
| 27 | He swallowed the first mouthful , and then examined what was left as if he was not sure what it contained . |
| 28 | He knew that he was oversensitive to the timbre of the human voice and hers , although not jarring or unpleasant , sounded a little forced as if she were deliberately speaking at an unnatural pitch . |
| 29 | Subjective reality is treated as no less real than so-called objective reality , and what is thought , felt or imagined is recorded as if it were literally true . |
| 30 | He moved round the room — in so far as it was possible in such cramped quarters — glad to he relieved momentarily of desk work but perhaps by way of indicating that the interview must be conducted as if we were both on the move ; and this meant that certain remarks were addressed to the window or the mantelpiece . |