Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] if they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judgements made in the course of a lecture will be taken down in notes as if they were facts , whereas it is in the nature of critical judgements that they can not be taken over by others ; it is on this dilemma , I believe , that Leavisism ultimately foundered . |
| 2 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 3 | She was a little woman , not much taller than Carrie , but she seemed strong as a railway porter , carrying their cases as if they weighed nothing . |
| 4 | Immediately the two brutes knelt , licking his fingers as if they were pet dogs . |
| 5 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 6 | People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious . |
| 7 | In both directions — south towards the Grand Parade and Patrick Street , and north to the quays — other horse-drawn vehicles threaded their way , wheels screaming , drivers cursing and cracking whips , the while throngs of Friday shoppers darted from one side of the unpaved road to the other , dodging between carts and traps and under horses ' necks as if they were n't there at all . |
| 8 | A Scottish Office official responded that the list of potential sites had been published and local authorities were being asked to deal with any development proposals as if they had already been designated as SPAs . |
| 9 | I looked at set-backs as if they were predetermined , as if a fixed number of them were waiting for me and once one of them was overcome the number to come decreased . |
| 10 | Some people speak , and write , through a blur of adjectives as if they secretly knew that at heart of their hackneyed attempts to articulate is nothing . |
| 11 | But Muriel writes off these youngsters with their strange clothes and weird hairstyles as if they were a lower kind of creature altogether . |
| 12 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |
| 13 | We began our discussion of the policy-making process by considering the roles of parties and pressure groups as if they were on the outside looking in , so to speak . |
| 14 | He could hear the words as if they were still resonating in the dank air of the shower room . |
| 15 | The priest relayed the directions , spitting out the words as if they were poison . |
| 16 | First , most professional anthropologists use these words as if they were technical terms , but there is no general agreement about how this should be done . |
| 17 | Lou spat out the words as if they had turned rancid in her mouth . |
| 18 | And he was n't alone amongst the instructors who felt this way : Jack Bisley , Sam Temple , and Amos Bernstein , they all admitted that they hated it ; but Angus McBride and Len looked forward to their trips as if they were half-day school holidays . |
| 19 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 20 | But the amounts the Poles spent were dwarfed by the way the Nazis used state funds as if they were from the Nazi Party cash box . |
| 21 | Again the boy looked down at his hands , staring at his arms and legs as if they did n't belong to him . |
| 22 | I never would have credited that people would talk about these illusions as if they 'd really taken place . ’ |
| 23 | Brawner recalls the young Mario as being ‘ real hard-working and ambitious ’ and tuned in to the cars as if they were human beings . |
| 24 | Using up ties as if they were Kleenex is the downside of not being able to eat spaghetti in the proper manner . |
| 25 | The windows were barred with white painted shutters covered with curtains of crimson velvet , her feet rested on a Turkey carpet and the walls were as thickly covered with pictures as if they had been pages in a stamp collection . |
| 26 | Presentations can be constructed by laying out graphs and images as if they were slides . |
| 27 | What differentiates this now from uncontextualised still image work is that the audience are now looking at these images in role ; they are interrogating the images as if they were detectives looking at photographic evidence . |
| 28 | We can then look at one or two of the still images as if they were statues or models in a theme park . |
| 29 | He dug his fingers into his ribs , massaged his cheeks , and patted the back of his thighs as if they were unproved bread . |
| 30 | The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever . |