Example sentences of "[noun] as [conj] it " in BNC.
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1 | If you want a new car , then cherish your beaten-up old Ford as if it were a gleaming red convertible . |
2 | Some energy from point Q is also detected by the sensor as if it had originated at P , due to scattering at S1 . |
3 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
4 | So , you can rotate , stretch and generally fiddle with text as if it was a square or what have you . |
5 | The park lay in sodden neglect , sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out . |
6 | I swilled down the half-pint of champagne as if it was bitter lemon . |
7 | ‘ I think it would be a good idea if we all had a swim before breakfast , do n't you ? ’ he said , the announcement seized upon with alacrity by the two little girls who , once again , began jumping up and down on the mattress as if it were a trampoline . |
8 | ITN 's News at Ten homes in on Big Ben as if it were the only part of London that mattered . |
9 | ‘ That 's O.K. , the firm pays for my taxi , ’ I babbled , holding it out to him between trembling fingers as if it were a dead insect . |
10 | In the US , the protected class includes a person whose disability represents no handicap to employment but is treated by employers as if it did ; or whose disability is a handicap to employment but only as a result of the attitudes of others towards it ; or who has no disability at all but is erroneously treated by employers as disabled . |
11 | Although the majority of scientists tend to be a little coy about metaphysical matters in their professional publications , they are often less so outside when writing elsewhere , being prone to describe the framework of presuppositions about perception within which they conduct their investigations as if it were a discovery in its own right and that ‘ discovery ’ an explanation of perception . |
12 | Esther says of Mrs Jellyby : her voice impressed my fancy as if it had a sort of spectacles on too Ch 8 and of Mr Turveydrop : |
13 | Culley pulled on the man 's hair as if it were a bell rope , backhanded him across the throat again , then clamped his hand over Schmidt 's mouth . |
14 | They will also dance to an electric light bulb as if it were the sun . |
15 | The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made . |
16 | The thought that Doreen might be pregnant , that the processes of gestation might be irretrievably in motion at that very moment , returned at regular intervals with more and more force , pumping worry into his heart as if it were a balloon . |
17 | ‘ Well , Ian , ’ he said , stroking the beard as if it were a favourite pet that had curled up on his chin , ‘ I think we have established incontrovertibly that you are an eidetiker of sorts . |
18 | We 've got to realise that there 's going to families out and about , and what we 'll do is the aircraft er I have n't seen the scenario on paper , but just off the top of my head , I can tell you that the aircraft will make their approaches to the base as if it were a real target . |
19 | The small khat traders from Djibouti , who travel the route as if it were the local bus , shrieked and angrily rearranged their shawls and robes . |
20 | Clutching her stick as if it were an offensive weapon , she made for the door . |
21 | Around his waist he wore a broad leather belt with a bone-handled knife clasped in a sheath and as usual in the presence of the coolies his right hand rested on its hilt as if it were a ceremonial sword . |
22 | Until the two old ladies with their umbrellas shattered his dream , he had walked through the streets of Brighton as if it were his own kingdom , doffing his flat cap to passers-by who could n't help hearing him coming from two blocks away . |
23 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
24 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
25 | Therefore it appears that a photon of energy E = hv behaves in a gravitational field as if it possessed an inertial mass E/c 2 ! |
26 | The maid took the plate from her mistress as if it were hot . |
27 | Write down this experience as if it were a dream . |
28 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
29 | The pre-teen Critics ' Forum in Row H demolished John Napier 's whimsical island of snow-capped peaks as if it were papier mache being assaulted by a blowtorch . |
30 | Oscars , by contrast , are handed out to an industry that thrives on glittering events and spends money as if it were being withdrawn from circulation tomorrow . |