Example sentences of "[noun] behave as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turakina behaved as if she was seeing the offworlder for the first time . |
| 2 | No other manufacturer would be so profligate in their use of fabric but the Ashleys behaved as if they had fabric to spare . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In Class I compounds , electron transfer between the centers is slow , and the sites behave as if they were effectively independent . |
| 5 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |
| 6 | Frank did n't apologize and Philip behaved as if nothing had happened . |
| 7 | Clinton behaved as if his first year at Oxford would be his only year . |
| 8 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |
| 9 | As with the highly misleading phrase Stavrogin 's Confession , critics and commentators behave as if they had got into a huddle . |
| 10 | At other times , the residents behave as if they are children again and show feelings they had when they were very young . |
| 11 | The field behaves as if it had been presented simultaneously with the target display , and so reduces the contrast between target contours and their background ( that is , the target contours will look grey rather than black ) . |
| 12 | A pigeon clock-shifted 6 hours early but taken through three time zones to the east would in fact behave as if it ‘ knew ’ it should home to the west , but because its compass bearings are rotated 90° clockwise ( it thinks it is midday when it is 6.00 p.m. ) , it would ‘ home ’ towards the north rather than the west . |