Example sentences of "[noun pl] as if it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 8 | The Gas , Water and Electricity Companies all had stands as if it were an exhibition . |
| 9 | And you come dancing up in your stinking rags as if it did n't matter ! |
| 10 | His dark hair was thinning on top , but he had bushy side whiskers as if it had all slipped downwards , and his chin was a dimpled mound seeming to support an ever-smiling mouth . |
| 11 | with System Ten has announced a family of control servers which will enable us to control this network of servers and clients as if it was a single machine . |
| 12 | But what would happen to the reformist 's theory if astronaut too were used by English speakers as if it were masculine , in spite of the fact it has no surface gender marking ? |
| 13 | Russell caught the look with a shiver of panic in his eyes as if it were a wet glass that had slipped out of his hand . |
| 14 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 15 | Let your head float upwards from your shoulders as if it was being lifted from above . |
| 16 | It was necessarily disturbed when the United States treated the United Nations as if it were its own exclusive " club " . |
| 17 | Once the income which is the property of the trust deed is to be deemed the income of Mr Astor ( that is , is to be treated for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts in all respects as if it were the property of Mr Astor ) , it automatically becomes impossible for the purposes of those Acts to say that he receives anything which springs from a right of action against the trustee in respect of his income . |
| 18 | The Thames was flowing full and furious , the water greedily lapping their feet as if it would like to catch them and drag them under its swollen black surface . |
| 19 | But many kinds of bacteria in nature form elaborate colonies , often quite visible to the naked eye , in which different individuals perform different functions , so that the whole colony functions as if it were a single organism . |
| 20 | It goes round corners as if it 's on rails . ’ |
| 21 | Wearing a baggy green cap and showing not the slightest tension , Latif went for his strokes as if it were a charity match . |
| 22 | Here 's a crusty roll — must n't show my ignorance and cut it with a knife , have to tear it to pieces as if it was my worst enemy . |
| 23 | The Centro de Orientacion Rosa Virginia Pelletier is under armed guard and is run to all intents and purposes as if it were a prison , although in 1980 there were only two young offenders in residence . |
| 24 | The House of Lords held that when determining the nature of the source of the income arising to the trust one looked through the trust treating the trust for all practical purposes as if it did not exist . |
| 25 | ‘ Sounds as if it 's trying to break into one of the containers . ’ |
| 26 | Every time Morris got a telephone call which sounded from his laconic replies as if it were private business , Dyson frowned at him warningly . |
| 27 | The top section of the mast snapped at the crosstrees as if it were less substantial than a toothpick . |
| 28 | Another surprise was that the helium-3 was not distributed uniformly throughout the metal , but appeared to be highly concentrated in small clusters as if it had been formed there . |
| 29 | And he was there , making the impossible leap from the ground to the moving platform , ducking beneath the barrel of the cannon , waving his chainsword in circles as if it weighed no more than a walking stick . |
| 30 | His daughter is played by Jane Birkin , the bilingual singer and actress , and one of the characteristic features of the film is the way the dialogue slips in and out of the two languages as if it were the most natural thing in the world . |