Example sentences of "as if [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is achieved by treating highly selective versions of experience and life as if they covered the whole range of experiential processes and forms of living , which , in fact , excludes the normal experiences and lives of the vast majority of the population . |
| 2 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 3 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |
| 4 | Instead they took refuge in the weaker claim that agents , on average over time , behaved as if they possessed the correct underlying model for the purposes of prediction . |
| 5 | In this context penalties are implicitly treated as if they gave the exact decrease in objective function when a variable is branched on ( as opposed to just a bound ) . |
| 6 | There 's such sad unenthusiasm , on the other hand , about the way Stanford confuses personal doubt with the existence of mystery , as if one engenders the other , and , in doing so , must be assuaged by performance of some farcical rites . |
| 7 | It was almost as if she wanted the intellectual stimulation , the fascination of the difficult . |
| 8 | She was going on as if she loved the fucking man , not just the fucking ! |
| 9 | He slouched back in the chair , his face drawn as if he realised the mortal danger they were now in . |
| 10 | The offworlder 's eyes were troubled , as if he saw the whole past of his kind moving before him . |
| 11 | The chaplain , crouched on a stool near the fireplace , stared into the flames wringing his hands whilst Rastani , the silent , dark servant , sat with his back to the wall as if he wished the very stones would open and swallow him . |
| 12 | Chernayev turned his head as if he felt the breathy impatience of the man behind him . |
| 13 | ‘ as if he meant the whole lot of them . ’ |
| 14 | It might have looked as if I wanted the bloody money ! ’ |