Example sentences of "as [subord] it be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its nervous system is being controlled , as irresistibly as if it were a helpless drug addict , or as if the cuckoo were a scientist plugging electrodes into its brain . |
| 2 | For such conditioning to occur , the animal must learn to respond to a mild stimulus which would not normally cause the withdrawal in the same way as if it were a strong one , such as a shock to the tail , which does cause withdrawal . |
| 3 | It would appear that Child Poverty Action Group director Fran Bennett 's fear that ‘ it looks as though it 's a two-pronged attack . |
| 4 | And it would seem as though it 's a logical thing to unblock a bit of the fence , so they can , instead of clamber over the bridge , just come straight through . |
| 5 | ‘ When Madonna masturbates on stage , she does it as though it 's a serious business — ours is a silly , flirtatious sex . |
| 6 | You 're painting this as though it 's a male problem exclusively . |
| 7 | So it is not as though it 's a young player who 's going out of the game and you 're telling them I 'm sorry your not going to make it with Warwickshire . |
| 8 | Cos that , that actually looks as though it 's the half way part of the bar too does n't it ? |
| 9 | This one uses the word niveau , which he does not know , as though it is an English word , one of those border-hopping words like ambience . |
| 10 | Each of these units can be attended as though it was a complete course in its own right . |
| 11 | " Of course , " she said , as though it was a silly question . |
| 12 | He replied laconically , as though it was a sufficient explanation , ‘ He was influenced by Hoskyns . ’ |
| 13 | They must be mad that they should expect such a delicate business as his preparation of Vologsky to be speeded up as though it was a crude operation on a factory bench . |
| 14 | Previously , accounting was thought of in much the same way as mathematics , as though it was an abstract but systematic manipulation of numbers . |
| 15 | Jake was looking at her as though it was the first time he had really seen her . |
| 16 | Dönitz adjusted his glasses , took the first sheet of paper from the file , opened his mouth and bawled at the microphone as though it was the furthest sailor on the longest parade ground in the Third Reich . |
| 17 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 18 | But to press into service , as though it were no more than a compendium of useful organs , the body of a servant , a friend — and a friend , at that , who died for a crime attributable to one 's own negligence — well , this moral madness placed him beyond human consideration . |
| 19 | They would readily accept that an omnipresent divine being can not be viewed through a telescope , however powerful , just as heaven is not a place which can be spied upon as though it were a distant planet . |
| 20 | Ho ! as though it were a personal battle-cry . |
| 21 | For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences . |
| 22 | And Mrs McMahon , who naturally had n't seen it because had n't she just this minute arrived back from the village and was n't the dress still in its bag , looked up at the three hovering on the stairs as though it were a divine deliverance , mumbled vaguely about a headache coming on , and thankfully abandoned her responsibilities to whoever was willing to take them on . |
| 23 | He had been determined to produce the opera as though it were a straight play , with long and detailed rehearsal allowing the artists to explore and deepen their own work in constant conditions . |
| 24 | As soon as she finds one she paralyses it , using her long sting as though it were a hypodermic syringe loaded with anaesthetic . |
| 25 | And just as the born worrier hurries to the medical dictionary to look up a real or imagined ailment , then medicates the common cold as though it were a terminal condition , so there are Koi-keepers whose ponds are a permanently dilute solution of anti-parasitic/antibacterial preparations … just in case . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's no sugar left , ’ he said almost as though it were a major tragedy . |
| 27 | The main offenders here are non-indigenous natives who have cleared areas ad acres of the best soil , farming it very poorly and working it as though it were a private farm … there is no rotation of crops and no manure applied which means he will soon be looking for another 100 acres of good soil to ruin . |
| 28 | Start from scratch this spring with a thorough clean-out and then treat the pond as though it were a new one , going through the necessary maturation process . |
| 29 | Sometimes Freud may have appeared not to adhere to this view of science in practice , especially in the way the psychoanalytic movement operated , in some periods , as though it were a new form of sectarian movement . |
| 30 | Thinking of the faith as though it were a philosophical position , and of those who had come to preach to them as if they were travelling intellectuals , led the Corinthians to imagine themselves as judges between the various emphases they heard . |