Example sentences of "[prep] if they are [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school :
2 It also seems as if they are at last more prepared to listen to the needs of the local skaters and on top of this a local developer has pledged ten thousand pounds towards the new facility so the future do n't look so gloomy after all .
3 Our parliamentary group does not appear to be in touch with grassroots opinion — it 's as if they are on another planet .
4 It is two , opposed , experiential explanations — one in terms of ‘ the feeling of pain itself ’ , the other in terms of people looking , sounding , and so on , as if they are in pain ( ‘ pain-behaviour ’ ) .
5 Then if , if it looks as if they are in , you just go to the next one and look at that , you know what I mean ?
6 as if they are in a complex maze , users of hypermedia can quickly become disorientated .
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