Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] they [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I feel as if they 're gon na put me in a bag and shake me up . |
| 32 | Yeah , cos er , I think Neil was telling you that , they look as if they 're gon na be buying plenty of gas off us if we , when we start taking the air products . |
| 33 | So they 're actually doing something about this looks almost as if they 're putting steps in there . |
| 34 | Most companies have a lackadaisical approach to recruitment — as if they 're doing us a great favour . ’ |
| 35 | What do the control rods sound as if they 're doing ? |
| 36 | it 's not as if they 're having nothing . |
| 37 | Because it sounds as if they 're having you one over the barrel . |
| 38 | Debate going on at my feet — sounds as if they 're going to take over . |
| 39 | Yeah and has palpitati funny , and not only that right , my eyes seem as if they 're going like that . |
| 40 | It 's as if they 're saying : ‘ There 's a ten foot wall — jump over it . ’ |
| 41 | as if they 're saying , ‘ look at me , see what I 've got ’ . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ Women in a formal situation often have a similarly closed posture as if they are cut off from things around them , ’ says Dr Trower . |
| 43 | Other essays are damaged by what appears to be an opposite problem , but is actually a result of the same lack of structure : they read as if they are trying to solve two or more problems at once . |
| 44 | The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there . |
| 45 | I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’ |
| 46 | With each attack , it is as if they are meeting the distasteful animal tor the first time . |
| 47 | Ms Khudiakova herself may , from time to time during the week of the show , model some of the 20 outfits — a red silk skirt patterned with the heads of workers who look as if they are marching when you walk in it , a red evening dress decorated with a swath of flowers reminiscent of the relief on a pavilion in Moscow 's Stalin-era Exhibition of Economic Achievements . |
| 48 | As so often , it is the monstrous ones that stick in the mind : two gross , splayed pairs of legs about to join the rest of the body they belong to in the maw of two amiable-looking man-eaters ( reminiscent of Oloron ) ; two horribly bent captives , their feet tied by a cord and their heads looking as if they are propped upright on sticks — strange motifs , yet motifs all the same , because they are not unique to Lescar . |
| 49 | Thus , although interest groups may look as if they are organized chiefly for public goods , in practice they are sustained by their ability to deliver selective incentives to their members which make joining worthwhile . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | It is as if they are saying , ‘ We believe in Jesus because he proved who he was by working miracles . ’ |
| 52 | Howard and Felicity move slowly about with their champagne , like everybody else , trying to look as if they are heading somewhere purposeful , and quietly making little humorous comments on the proceedings to each other as they go . |
| 53 | Genesis is exhilarating and exuberant orthodox big-band music of a kind rarely played with such punch any more and the sharpness of the CD enhances the brash , headlong momentum of it — Tracey 's orchestras always sound as if they are going to work with the elan of Saturday night at the Savoy ballroom . |
| 54 | I think Dufy is quite wrong ; John Piper is more the type , his peculiar banks and cliffs which have no vegetation on them whatsoever yet look as if they are going to have tiny green shoots peeping out at any minute . |
| 55 | For most Indian families a marriage is as much a business proposition as a romantic affair of the heart , and perhaps for this reason many of the advertisements sound as if they are marketing objects rather than advertising potential spouses : |
| 56 | It is common for Evangelicals to speak as if they are denying a ‘ real presence ’ but this is far from the case . |
| 57 | Ma and Father shake hands with everyone and look as if they are having a wonderful time . |
| 58 | This sounds as if they are joining the cartel , but it will cut world production by only 1/2% . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | The return of Latin would make them feel as if they were experiencing something mysterious and exalted , something greater than themselves . |