Example sentences of "as if [pers pn] be [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It almost sounds as if we 're 58% in charge of what we 're doing . |
| 2 | One answer to it might be that there are systemic forces strong enough to propel the nation states through their orbits , rather as if they were planets in a solar system in dynamic equilibrium . |
| 3 | We have a way of talking , and thus a way of thinking , about thoughts as if they were sentences in the head ; and it is worth noting that Fodor ( for example in Psychosemantics ) regards folk psychology as providing a rough but reliable account of mental life and behaviour . |
| 4 | Seeing how nature treats an inept hedgehog made me very glad that we have won the long counter-insurgency war with nature in the western world : but too weak-minded a reverence for nature is going to allow us to treat fellow humans as if they were hedgehogs in the shrubbery . |
| 5 | The tower , like other of the medieval remains of Sauveterre ( all of them numbered and labelled by the tourist authorities , as if they were clues in an architectural treasure hunt ) , is alive with pigeons and with palombes , wisely sitting out the shooting season in town . |
| 6 | While it is often the case that methods are treated as if they were tools in a tool box ready and waiting to be used for their appropriate task , it is vitally important that any aspiring methodologist does not take this too seriously but tries , instead , to understand the presumptions which underpin methods . |