Example sentences of "[noun] as [conj] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ? |
| 2 | Start from scratch this spring with a thorough clean-out and then treat the pond as though it were a new one , going through the necessary maturation process . |
| 3 | A pretty nest is selling puppies , he said , and sang to me of a nest ( not nurse ) from which puppies are hatched and sold , and there was a fireman and pedestrians with raincoats and walking-sticks , strolling the length of the roof as though it were an avenue , with a bright barber shop perched upon an antenna whose rust I could n't see . |
| 4 | ‘ The heart of the forest , ’ the cripple said , repeating the words as though it was a joke . |
| 5 | Hence , as in so many other traditional cultures , the victims of affliction are thus revealed as criminals ; in contrast to the situation in Samuel Butler 's allegorical novel Erewhon , it is not so much that sickness in itself is a crime as that it is a symptom and consequence of criminal activity . |
| 6 | Furthermore , deeds made by individuals need no longer be sealed , although they may seal if they wish to do so , and deeds made by a company need only be signed by a director and the company secretary ( or by two directors ) and , provided that the deed is expressed to be executed by the company , then it has the same effect as if it was executed under the company 's seal . |
| 7 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 8 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 9 | People still talk about when they beat the Arsenal as though it was only last season almost do n't they ? |
| 10 | Where a country espouses outward-looking policies , it may continue to behave in many important respects as though it were still domestically focused . |
| 11 | The object stuff will allow personal computer clients to manage InterBase data as though it were local to the system . |
| 12 | That did not matter for soon burning aircraft lit the scene as though it were daylight . |
| 13 | He tapped the desk as though it was all there in a diagram that I should have already looked at . |
| 14 | I did n't actually like Paula very much — she flaunted her wealth as though it was marked with a price tag — but I did n't actively dislike her . |
| 15 | He looked at Lissa as though it was all her doing , and she sent him a poisonous stare in return . |
| 16 | However , our error is to think of God 's Law as though it were a legal system . |
| 17 | Once seated the audience would see the theatre ceiling as though it were open to the sky at night ; stars twinkling and a moon shining . |
| 18 | Moral philosophers often ignore empathy as though it were an irrelevance outside their province , a matter for psychology perhaps rather than philosophy . |
| 19 | And just as the born worrier hurries to the medical dictionary to look up a real or imagined ailment , then medicates the common cold as though it were a terminal condition , so there are Koi-keepers whose ponds are a permanently dilute solution of anti-parasitic/antibacterial preparations … just in case . |
| 20 | Others will talk about themselves as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ and describe what is taking place as though it were happening to a character in a television play . |
| 21 | She held the lid as though it were a tambourine . |
| 22 | Jim'£s chances of winning are tremendous when he plays each point as though it was match point . ’ |
| 23 | He opened the safe door and took out the fish as though it were stuffed with rubies . |
| 24 | Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’ |
| 25 | To present such fantasy in your article as though it were fact is unworthy of your newspaper and can only be regarded as malicious mischief-making . |
| 26 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 27 | Dönitz adjusted his glasses , took the first sheet of paper from the file , opened his mouth and bawled at the microphone as though it was the furthest sailor on the longest parade ground in the Third Reich . |
| 28 | ‘ So , ’ Laura drank her wine as though it was water , then refilled her glass . |
| 29 | Holyfield speaks in a deep bass voice which makes everything he says sound as though it 's carved in stone . |
| 30 | In particular , attention has been directed to such questions as whether it is being dismantled or whether its frontiers are being narrowed by privatisation . |