Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] if [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line continued its progress as if Denwood were at the North Pole . |
| 2 | But Barney Moss did n't like the joke , stared at Doyle as if Doyle were the pits of the earth . |
| 3 | Mat. as if life was full of jolly little surprises . |
| 4 | ‘ This family has always been poor , but they were not slaves , ’ the old woman almost shouted , snatching back the photograph as if Martha 's impious fingers would stain it . |
| 5 | The molar extinction coefficient has units of if c is in and I is in cm , so that A is a pure number . |
| 6 | Even in the absence of a complete procedure for deciding expressions it will be possible to automatically transform each finite program to normal form ( except perhaps for the inclusion of some false branches in IF statements ) . |
| 7 | Despite calls of if Rentokil won , Rank would terminate the contract , Rentokil went on to a 7-O victory . |
| 8 | Rohmer began to make shushing noises as if Gilbert was a child who needed to be restrained for sleep . |
| 9 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 10 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 11 | Sensation as if parts of the skull were screwed together . |
| 12 | Hand to hand fighting dominated our imagination as if right and wrong , good and bad , had to be decided in violent confrontation on the spot or at some predetermined location . |
| 13 | He looked around the room as if Coffin might be hiding there . |
| 14 | But can you get those higher prices when there are people , the Gulf sheikhs of waste , who can afford to forget tomorrow and charge as if space , like oil , came free — as to them , perhaps , it does ? |
| 15 | To be more explicit , it is simplest to take the particular formulation of the independent conditional just suggested , and anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , in place of If R and C , even given any X consistent with R and C and W , then still W. That is , let us have this : Given the world as it is , or given any changes in it logically consistent with R and & and W , then if R and & then W. From these two things it follows-as from if A , then if B then C , and A , it follows that if B then C — that if R and C , then W. From this in turn , together with C , there follows the dependent conditional if R then W. To repeat , let us have the statement ( Y ) describing the actual events and conditions accompanying r and & in the world as it is , and the disjunctive statement ( K ) to the effect that the world is in one way or another otherwise , logically consistent with R and C , and W. Then our premisses and conclusion are as follows . |
| 16 | Moreover , I do n't trust English clerks who go around asking questions as if Scotland was another English shire . |
| 17 | He gave her a distant smile as if thinking of something else . |
| 18 | We shifted up the hill to Dartington Hall itself , for the conference of the Human Scale Education Movement , on ‘ Education as if People Matter ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Sounds as if friend Gabriel has a bit of a problem . ’ |
| 20 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 21 | ‘ Sounds as if Mahmoud 's got it sorted out , ’ Georgiades said . |
| 22 | ‘ Sounds as if Blufton 's a sharp operator . ’ |
| 23 | Thus , relief is given in , for example , Sweden as if tax had been paid in Barbados . |
| 24 | Erm what social services erm policy say with regard to there 's a certain amount of money available t say for if people came to family . |
| 25 | Curtius Kenne was staring at Jessamyn as if Jesus H. Christ himself had ridden into town on a donkey , walked into the bar looking for trouble , and kicked him in the gazebos with steel-spiked sandals . |
| 26 | It is important to remember that the late Dr. Schumacher 's book Small is Beautiful is subtitled A study of Economics as if People Mattered . |
| 27 | Singer sensed a presence and turned , swinging a punch as if instinct or fear dictated it . |
| 28 | If the directors are authorised generally they may also be given power , by the articles or by the resolution , to allot equity securities as if section 89(1) did not apply or applied with such modifications as the directors determined . |
| 29 | ( 6 ) Locate , list and describe relevant local , regional , and national retail outlets and : ( a ) describe their trading , buying and pricing policy as if affects bakery products ; ( b ) describe their attitude to manufacturer 's brands/ own brands , and ranges . |
| 30 | It has seemed this month as if Ronald Reagan never left town , as President Bush decisively buried his lingering image as a White House wimp with a series of interventions that stamped his own authority on US foreign policy , and America 's will upon the world . |