Example sentences of "[vb pp] as if it had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that a premium paid during a tax year is treated as if it had been paid during the previous tax year ; or the tax year before that , if there were no relevant earnings in the previous year . |
| 2 | An action purporting to have been commenced against a person who is dead at its commencement is treated as if it had been commenced against his estate , whether or not a grant of representation had been issued at its commencement ( Ord 5 , r 8(3) ) . |
| 3 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 4 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 5 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 6 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 7 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 8 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |
| 9 | The room looked as if it had been torn apart . |
| 10 | The large teapots were filled from the boiling urns , and , thanks to the microwaves , the food tasted as if it had been freshly made . |
| 11 | All it 's side had been shaved as if it had been an o had an operation . |