Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] if they [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where assets are finance by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 2 | Where assets are finance by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 3 | Where assets are financed by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 4 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |
| 5 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 6 | She was wearing biker leathers and cowboy boots which all looked as if they 'd been applied with the aid of a shoehorn . |
| 7 | The walkers who had wangled the lift with him looked as if they had been told they had a week to live , suggesting the car conversation must have fulfilled my expectations . |
| 8 | Not many yards away , dunes and hillocks looked as if they had been dumped at random , each one rising about sixty feet above the plain . |
| 9 | The prehistoric trees looked as if they had been felled the day before , but they were as sterile as hot bricks from a kiln and probably one hundred and thirty million years old . |
| 10 | Some of the people looked as if they had been torn apart by animals with more in the way of teeth and claws than the Good Lord intended for them to have . |
| 11 | Anthony 's hard features looked as if they had been carved from stone . |
| 12 | Those stacks looked as if they had been turned out of a tin . ’ |
| 13 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 14 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 15 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |