Example sentences of "[noun] as [subord] [pron] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious . |
| 2 | ‘ You two look as if you 're flirting in the most outrageous way , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Read the instructions supplied with the card as if there are serial and parallel ports on the card you may need to configure them as LPT2 , COM3 and COM4 if those devices are already installed . |
| 4 | However , Feargal Quinn makes a valid point when he argues that to talk about farm-based commodity production and the factory based processing to meet consumer demands as if they are one industry is a misleading simplification . |
| 5 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 6 | It may be unfair to picture the horrors of Texas as if they are worse than the horrors of industrial Britain . |
| 7 | ‘ The Department , ’ he says , ‘ frequently talk about teachers and parents as if we are two entirely different groups . |
| 8 | ‘ Women in a formal situation often have a similarly closed posture as if they are cut off from things around them , ’ says Dr Trower . |
| 9 | Yes , of the 28 it looks at the moment as if there are only 4 from the Wolves area . |
| 10 | Most of them only sound as if they are . ) |
| 11 | What do the control rods sound as if they 're doing ? |
| 12 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 13 | Sounds as if you are having a party there ! |
| 14 | It is likely that he belonged to the friary in Nottingham ( he refers to the rivers Trent and Derwent as if they are familiar to him ) . |
| 15 | Begin by watching yourself for half an hour each day as if you are a stranger . |
| 16 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 17 | And yes , it infuriates her when magazines run ‘ Big Is Beautiful ’ features as if they 're indulging a minority of readers . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , you , ’ Shirley roguishly , adept at receiving reprimands as if they are jokes . |
| 19 | But I , I mean , I I think it 's true to say , that ninety-nine times out of a hundred , if you do approach these so-called yobs as if they 're human beings , they usually react like human beings . |
| 20 | I hope that we 've been able to convey the way that Control Servers will enable you to control the client server environment as if you 're controlling a mainframe , and I sincerely hope that we 've been able to talk erm knowledgeably knowledgeably about our tool strategy and how we can address the needs of each different group of users with different desktop devices in a consistent manner . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , her gift is to write about her characters as if they are known to her : her stories unfold through their eyes , with no apparent authorial manipulation . |
| 22 | When I think of getting married and all that means I get this feeling as if I am being physically choked . |
| 23 | feeling as if I 'm not using the resources I 've got . |
| 24 | ‘ I object to the way you 've dressed like someone from the pages of a Dickensian workhouse and turned up with your belongings in carrier bags as if you 're on your way to the laundromat . ’ |
| 25 | As the Tory Party debated the ‘ make-believe gangsters strolling about the streets as if they are the monarchs of all ’ , the conference hall rang with an entirely familiar pattern of complaints and accusations : ‘ the leniency shown in the past by the Courts of this country ’ ; the ‘ lack of parental control , interest and support ’ ; the ‘ sex , savagery , blood and thunder ’ in films and television ; and the ‘ smooth , smug and sloppy sentimentalists who contribute very largely to the wave of crime ’ so that young people were ‘ no longer frightened of the police , they sneer at them ’ . |
| 26 | No one here likes you , the way you sit off by yourself at meals half the time as if you 're waiting for someone who 's good enough for you . |