Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] if they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The availability of similar speeds across the network could make the future remote facilities as intuitive and supportive as if they were all on the user 's desktop . |
| 2 | The crushing weariness was a formidable enemy , though , and she felt her eyelids drooping as if they 'd been weighted . |
| 3 | Next thing they know , all hell breaks loose upstairs : they find their best brass candlesticks snapped in half as if they were toothpicks , and the pot where their dinner is cooking on the hearth fills up with ashes . |
| 4 | They clung to one another as if they could never be parted again . |
| 5 | And she was so toffee-nosed as if they said the curtains . |
| 6 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 7 | The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems . |
| 8 | However what we do n't want er our consultants to get in paranoid about if they do n't get that target . |
| 9 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 10 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 11 | His kiss was leisurely as if they had all the time in the world to explore each other , and he could afford to wait for her response , confident in his own powers of arousing it . |
| 12 | There were significant age effects in both tasks on these items , and many of the children in the two younger age groups failed to distinguish between deductive and empirical items and treated them all as if they were empirical items . |
| 13 | Rawls often writes of individuals ' conceptions of the good as if they are their views of the good life for themselves . |
| 14 | The machines hummed and snick-snicked as if they had been warned to keep their voices down . |
| 15 | They see it as something that they , as the caring agencies , must be involved in if they are going to be doing a good professional job . |
| 16 | They looked empty and forlorn as if they had not yet adjusted themselves to their premature change of life . |
| 17 | You would n't be able to if they were . |
| 18 | They look after themselves , but there is always someone responsible around if they have any problems . |
| 19 | They had been on stand-by since 10.00 a.m. and it was now after one o'clock , but they were as crisp and well-tailored as if they 'd just stepped on to the plane . |
| 20 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 21 | Hyam also deplores the recent ‘ willingness of Third World governments to adopt the peculiar Purity laws and conventions of Britain in the 1880s as if they represented ultimate truths about human civilisation ’ . |
| 22 | It begins with two entranced dancers fencing with short bamboos , and ends with the dancers unconscious in the arms of the community , while the bamboos continue dancing on their own as if they were slivers of paper on an electrostatically charged diaphragm . |
| 23 | Haggett got in there with his bayonet , and speared the two as if they were straw figures . |
| 24 | Two of the brass chandeliers suspended above the nave gave a gentle diffused light but the church looked dimly mysterious compared with the glare of the passage and the figures of Massingham and the detective sergeant quietly conferring , of Miss Wharton and the boy patiently sitting like hump-backed dwarfs on low chairs in what must be the children 's corner , seemed as distanced and insubstantial as if they moved in a different dimension of time . |
| 25 | It is unfortunate , then , that Bakker treats endothermy and ectothermy as if they were mutually exclusive , even suggesting that endotherms have a distinct competitive advantage over the others . |
| 26 | Whatever else , it is clear that a modernist representation would not accurately capture the organizational patterns of contemporary Japanese organization , which have served in the 1980s as if they were a very beacon of postmodernity , given the role that various representations of them have played in recent debates . |
| 27 | Indeed , a popular view amongst community relations police in the area is that many more schools would welcome them but for intimidation , a factor which the community relations police have to be very sensitive towards if they are not to threaten the safety of children and teachers . |
| 28 | This year everyone working for BT was sent a letter telling them the redundancy terms they were entitled to if they decided to leave the company voluntarily . |