Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] if [pron] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The availability of similar speeds across the network could make the future remote facilities as intuitive and supportive as if they were all on the user 's desktop . |
| 2 | Her head was swimming and the floor seemed to be undulating as if she were at sea . |
| 3 | jester let his head sag lower and lower as if he were falling asleep . |
| 4 | Running in a half-mile race with little pains tearing at my chest and my knees sinking lower and lower as if I were running across quick-sands . |
| 5 | To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime . |
| 6 | Next thing they know , all hell breaks loose upstairs : they find their best brass candlesticks snapped in half as if they were toothpicks , and the pot where their dinner is cooking on the hearth fills up with ashes . |
| 7 | For example , an adult may focus on a non-social action , such as tongue-poking or arm-waving , and interpret this as if it were , in fact , performed as an expression of some kind of social intention . |
| 8 | He said this as if it were obvious , as if he were explaining something self-evident to a small child . |
| 9 | Yet , as the Cambridge evacuation survey commented wryly , hosts presented this as if it were ‘ an entirely unknown phenomenon in the past , and that evacuation produced a Niagara all over English and Scottish country beds ’ . |
| 10 | The entire text and formatting of one document can be inserted into another as if it were a block of text being inserted from elsewhere in the same document ( see Task 12 ) . |
| 11 | We see it in its most obvious form in the interactions between species when one species manages to control the behaviour of another as if it were a puppet . |
| 12 | 2 as if you were one of the Spiggies . |
| 13 | Fand looked stranger than ever , her face fixed and old as if she were withering in this icy fire . |
| 14 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 15 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 16 | ‘ It sounds very much as if you were the one who was smitten , ’ Cora-Beth laughed . |
| 17 | The memory was sour-sweet , bubbling up out of the dream-past with this chance remark , as fresh and real as if it were happening now . |
| 18 | I liked that idea : it seemed aristocratic to me , just walking out empty-handed as if we were above all objects . |
| 19 | Benny had smiled at her but again it had seemed a little as if it were expected . |
| 20 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 21 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 22 | Behind her Rune remained silent , his presence oppressive as if he were some Superman radiating a special kind of beam which could put the world to rights if only one believed in it . |
| 23 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 24 | word clear and comprehensible as if she were in the front row of the stalls . |
| 25 | There were significant age effects in both tasks on these items , and many of the children in the two younger age groups failed to distinguish between deductive and empirical items and treated them all as if they were empirical items . |
| 26 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 27 | And of course it was the first thing Hepzibah said , turning pink and steamy from the stove and smiling as if it were the most natural thing in the world that Carrie and Nick should appear in her kitchen at precisely this minute . |
| 28 | Thus Barthes 's account of wrestling does not seem so strange and unlikely as if it were merely his own and there were no alternative account against which his was implicitly juxtaposed . |
| 29 | I thought of it as a sanctuary , and something more as if there were some magic property in the room itself that would stop this happening , if only I could reach it . |
| 30 | You would n't be able to if they were . |