Example sentences of "[prep] if people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then … as if people had not been hearing things since Noah hit his thumb with a hammer , SOUND arrived . |
| 2 | Everything had an improvised , random air about it , as if people had erected new machines just where they happened to be standing at the time , next to the debris of the old . |
| 3 | Some of the great controversies were so trivial that it seemed as if people had positively to search for something to quarrel about . |
| 4 | it does n't sound as if people had much inhibitions about coming up to you and asking you . |
| 5 | They argue , on pragmatic grounds , that judges must sometimes act as if people had legal rights , because acting that way will serve society better in the long run . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
| 8 | We shifted up the hill to Dartington Hall itself , for the conference of the Human Scale Education Movement , on ‘ Education as if People Matter ’ . |
| 9 | The causal connections between early life chances and present opportunities were implicit rather than explicit almost as if people did not want to articulate these except in the ways that I report . |
| 10 | I thought this a stupid attitude , rather as if people sitting comfortably in a first-class railway carriage should complain that being an engine driver was a filthy occupation . |
| 11 | 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 . |