Example sentences of "as if [pron] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 2 | After a spell in the line men felt as if they belonged to some exclusive monastic order whose grim rites were simply beyond the comprehension of the laymen at the rear . |
| 3 | Hepzibah sounded as if she knew about this . |
| 4 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 5 | She is as remote from me , as strange , as if she belonged to another time . |
| 6 | ‘ But she does n't look as if she feels like that . |
| 7 | Also there had been a note of incredulity in Vigo 's voice as if he marvelled at such an old goose begetting a swan . |
| 8 | It had been as if he came from another , alien world , beyond her experience or comprehension , a glamorous , glittering man who made her think of diamonds , so hard and sharp were the edges of his personality . |
| 9 | He was speaking slowly and carefully , as if he wondered after all whether her English was up to scratch . |
| 10 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 11 | We have tended to speak as if it existed in some obvious and consistent way in higher education , but as some of the above quotations pointed out , the undergraduate curriculum may be influenced by other manifestations of organized knowledge , in particular research and professional practice . |