Example sentences of "if [pers pn] were [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could n't see them right if you were a few yards from them , but just the figures moving you know , and their arms going backwards and fore cleaning the windows . |
| 2 | as if they were no such fools |
| 3 | Preston looked at him and wondered if they were the same nightmares he had . |
| 4 | In this case the relationship is treated as if it were a one-to-many relationship , but the records on the ‘ many side ’ are duplicated because each record can be related to several parents . |
| 5 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |