Example sentences of "[to-vb] as [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of noise is often from a diff and travels down the tubular propshaft to sound as if it comes from the gearbox and gets louder as the roadspeed increases . |
| 2 | ‘ A young friend of ours , ’ I said , trying to sound as if it was the most natural thing in the world that we should be sitting here , holding hands . |
| 3 | I asked , trying not to sound as if it were a matter of life and death . |
| 4 | Claudia said , trying to sound as if it were of no real interest to her . |
| 5 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 6 | The position of the litigant who wrongly brings a case under Order 53 is different because Ord. 53 r. 9(5) may allow the case to continue as if it had been started by ordinary writ procedure . |
| 7 | The Monster continues to scream as if it would blast me from the cosmos . |
| 8 | The best way to face irresistible change is to behave as if it were welcome . |
| 9 | A conventional computer is turned into a ‘ thinking machine ’ by programming it to behave as if it consisted of a collection of brain cells — neurons — which will respond to a stimulus . |
| 10 | By taxing or subsidizing goods that involve externalities , the government can induce the private sector to behave as if it takes account of the externality , thus eliminating the deadweight burden arising from the misallocation induced by the externality distortion . |
| 11 | It 's a very difficult moral question , and it does no good to talk as if it was a simple black and white issue . ’ |
| 12 | The medieval oak furniture , dark and glowing , was said by Mr Hulsby to look as if it were nourished on stout . |
| 13 | And not expecting everything to look as if it 's been lifted straight from the page of a glossy foodie magazine . ’ |
| 14 | Geoffrey Smith , and his associates Michael Mackett and Bernard Moss , have been experimenting with the possibility of modifying vaccinia to make a vaccine against hepatitis B — a major health problem in the Third World — and it is beginning to look as if it might work ( Nature , vol 302 , p 490 ) . |
| 15 | I should prefer the headland without it but it 's beginning to look as if it had a right to be there . ’ |
| 16 | Trading standards officers found two thirds of the joints tested in Yorkshire and Humberside had fat added to look as if it was a natural part of the meat . |
| 17 | If the mash is beginning to look as if it might be too runny , cook gently to reduce . |
| 18 | And there , in exactly the manner I have recommended for putting in clues in the traditional whodunit , Hammett gives his readers their clue , full-out and in the open but made to look as if it was there as part of the particularly laconic , cool conversation the two men are having over the newly-slain body . |
| 19 | Stephen wanted the hotel to look as if it had always been there , part of the landscape , and Paul suggested a South American landscape architect , whom he had heard of . |
| 20 | In other words , it had to be accurate in every tiny detail and to look as if it was at first glance . |
| 21 | You see , these steps here tend to look as if it 's a pile of beams or something with a door standing on top , but you quite clearly see those steps , but you do n't get the depth of the steps so everything is a bit flat . |
| 22 | Attach a ‘ bandage ’ to the arm and drape over the sarcophagus to look as if it is unravelling . |
| 23 | Since we had to renew so much of the timber , we thought we would turn that to good account , rather than trying to We do n't want it to look as if it 's five hundred years old . |
| 24 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 25 | For long chains , co-operative motion can not be expected to extend along the entire length , and the polymer tends to act as if it were composed of a series of interconnected , but independent , kinetic units . |
| 26 | He then engaged full astern , causing the boat to stop as if it had hit a brick wall , and cried : ‘ Drop anchor ! ’ |
| 27 | He opened the door wide and gestured for Robyn to enter as if it were the most natural thing in the world . |
| 28 | We have tended to speak as if it existed in some obvious and consistent way in higher education , but as some of the above quotations pointed out , the undergraduate curriculum may be influenced by other manifestations of organized knowledge , in particular research and professional practice . |
| 29 | ‘ Because each shaft is slightly thinner , hair starts to feel as if it has less body and volume , ’ says trichologist Philip Kingsley . |