Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He straightened one or two things out in my action , worked on my technique a bit , but the most important thing he taught me was to concentrate on every single delivery as if it were he most important in your life . |
| 32 | That is to say , you can not describe sixteenth-century English as if it were a variant of RP any more than you can do this for divergent present-day varieties . |
| 33 | Since opinion is now deeply divided on so many issues , one can probably no longer talk of the constitutional order as if it were a reflection of public opinion . |
| 34 | But this time it was n't a dream — she was really here , breathing the drifting green atmosphere as if it were ordinary air . |
| 35 | Therefore it appears that a photon of energy E = hv behaves in a gravitational field as if it possessed an inertial mass E/c 2 ! |
| 36 | We should therefore be suspicious of any expository textbook which presents the criminal law as if it could be stated in a finite number of propositions from which all solutions could ultimately be derived without further choices at the point of application . |
| 37 | Figure 1 A reed warbler feeding a young cuckoo as if it were its own offspring ( Photo : I. Wyllie ) . |
| 38 | He produced this with solemn pride as if it was a new and revolutionary idea : it was , in fact , an unfashionable one . |
| 39 | A hasty glance took in the gorgeous antique furniture crammed in as if it had been recently off-loaded by a dealer , the small , pristine cooker and the sink pushed against the soft ochre-washed wall as if it was an after-thought . |
| 40 | He pulled the local daily paper from under his arm and brandished it in the blue air as if it were a short sword . |
| 41 | Even when they have not been beating a religious drum , Western historians have been censured for their myopia in treating modern science as if it were an exclusively Western phenomenon . |
| 42 | A new 3-D perspective is generated in real time and delivered to the helmet 's eyescreens to create the effect of ‘ looking around ’ the virtual world as if it was a real one . |