Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] if [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully Wilko is only experimenting as if this is our lineup for the season to put it mildly we 're fucked . |
| 2 | Example 4:3 Index-linked rent : upwards only YIELDING AND PAYING the annual sum of £ … ( " the basic rent " ) payable quarterly in advance on the 25th of March the 24th of June the 29th of September and the 25th of December in each year and in addition such sum payable on each of the above dates in advance ( " the index-linked rent " ) as bears the same proportion to one quarter of the basic rent as is borne by the figure shown in the General Index of Retail Prices ( " the index " ) for the month immediately preceding the months in which payment of any particular instalment of rent is due to the figure ( which is the figure shown in that index for the month of … ) minus one quarter of the basic rent PROVIDED THAT ( 1 ) if after the date of this lease the index is calculated by reference to a different base date or base figure then the index-linked rent shall be calculated as if that change had not taken place ( 2 ) if the index ceases to be published or if for any reason it becomes impossible or impracticable to calculate the index-linked rent then either the landlord or the tenant may by notice require the rent to be thenceforth reviewed at such times and in such manner as may be agreed between them or in default of agreement be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who shall have regard to market practice prevailing at the time of such notice in relation to new lettings of property of the same type as the demised property ( 3 ) in no circumstances shall the total rent payable under this lease be less than the basic rent |
| 3 | If all they have to dread is the passing of a law , why behave as if such a law already exists ? |
| 4 | The Indians were supposed to look on at what was happening as if these two white men in skirts were barmy . |
| 5 | One old chap said , ‘ What 's up lad , tha ’ looks as if tha 's seen a ghost ! ’ |
| 6 | Second , it seems on this criterion that we shall never have more than the slenderest of reasons to believe that we know something ; for in believing this we are believing that when all the truths are in , our justification will remain , and it looks as if much more is required to support that belief than is required to support an ordinary claim to know . |
| 7 | But because it is Kiev it looks as if many truths , many pasts , will continue to co-exist there side by side . |
| 8 | As we saw in section 2.1 , we can not state the truth conditions of sentences with indexicals without reference to the deictic function of indexicals ; but if we allow truth conditions to be relativized to speakers , addressees , times , places , indicated objects , etc. , then it looks as if many aspects of deixis can be accommodated within truth-conditional semantics . |
| 9 | ‘ At the moment it looks as if all major roadworks are suspended . ’ |
| 10 | They 're not sure , but they think it looks as if all three bodies were trussed up like parcels . |
| 11 | Yet it looks as if that most precious of ladies may be about to be raped — and what is more , by the very group of her countrymen set up to defend her honour and purity . |
| 12 | ‘ It looks as if that car has come this way , ’ murmured Mary . |
| 13 | It now looks as if that safety net is never going to be needed . |
| 14 | Okay well that looks as if that adds up nicely . |
| 15 | In this respect it looks as if some Latin American leaders and regimes may understand better what is needed than the more formal and even ossified democracies of the West . |
| 16 | It is certainly true that some of the processes associated with standardization ( on which see Haugen , 1972 ; Leith , 1980 ; J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) were well under way around 1600 ( elaboration of function , use of a supra-regional writing system ) , but it looks as if some of them were still at the stage of being localized developments associated with the establishment of consensus on local norms , and this applies particularly to pronunciation , which is the level of language that is least uniform . |
| 17 | It looks as if some music belonging to Act 1 was originally printed , but removed before the books were put on sale . |
| 18 | The teacher stops the scene as soon as it looks as if any of the " performers " are finding it difficult . |
| 19 | So it looks as if these are not allergic reactions at all , even though they produce allergy-like symptoms . |
| 20 | Right , so there 's not much , this looks as if these answers could both be correct because |
| 21 | The Marshal roared into the distance for Lorenzini and then said : ‘ It looks as if this might have nothing to do with the kidnapping . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It looks as if this is going to be one of the best birthdays I 've ever had , ’ he said . |
| 23 | They were n't wiped away , so it looks as if this chap wore gloves . |
| 24 | Sir , There are , we read , schisms in the Church of England concerning rituals and rights , and it looks as if this is beginning to affect authors . |
| 25 | And it looks as if this behaviour is all about encouraging the ducklings to erm , go off on their own , as it were an and to start to run off and look for food . |
| 26 | So I think we have to do them , but I think it is very important that we do not erm , er talk to the , or communicate with the other member authorities in a way that looks as if this is Wiltshire saying , well we want to find a way of flogging off this asset without worrying about what happens to the future of the service . |
| 27 | Valerie is still hopeful that she 'll be able to get the school reopened but at the moment it looks as if this is as close as these children will get to being at Brockweir School . |
| 28 | But Mary Daly , for example , in GynlEcology , sometimes writes as if most women were really little more than the programmed , robotic puppets to which women were reduced in Ira Levin 's novel The Stepford Wives ; the language of ‘ fembots ’ and ‘ mutants ’ and ‘ puppets ’ , whilst intended , I am sure , to enunciate a critique of women 's oppressors , veers perilously near to sounding like contempt for those who are subject to that oppression . |
| 29 | Often these people believed that each of the components of nature — the forest , the rivers , the sky — was occupied and guarded by a jealous god , and they behaved as if that were the case . |
| 30 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |