Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the 30 rooms is arranged as if it were still in use — the Little Drawing Room was designed by Robert Adam with gilded mouldings and intricate wall paintings . |
| 2 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 3 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 4 | The base contains about nine Snotlings but is treated as if it were a single large monster with several wounds and attacks . |
| 5 | This means that a premium paid during a tax year is treated as if it had been paid during the previous tax year ; or the tax year before that , if there were no relevant earnings in the previous year . |
| 6 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 7 | The first is where it is set aside , in which case it is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 8 | For the UK this means that the run-down of many sectors of manufacturing is treated as if it is unconnected with the policies of successive UK governments , with the qualities of management and the character of British trade unionism . |
| 9 | In the group accounts , the subsidiary undertaking is treated as if it had always been a member of the group . |
| 10 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 11 | In this case the relationship is treated as if it were a one-to-many relationship , but the records on the ‘ many side ’ are duplicated because each record can be related to several parents . |
| 12 | An action purporting to have been commenced against a person who is dead at its commencement is treated as if it had been commenced against his estate , whether or not a grant of representation had been issued at its commencement ( Ord 5 , r 8(3) ) . |
| 13 | If , exceptionally , it is a relevant European institution ( see page 37 above ) , it is technically not authorised under the FSA ; however , for the purposes of s 57 it is treated as if it was ( see para 17 of Sched 9 to the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) . |
| 14 | To a large extent , Bolinger 's division between those adjectives that qualify referents and those that qualify sense is presented as if it were a classification of adjectives as word types , that is , as one might find them categorized in the dictionary , thereby giving an impression that Bolinger might regard this almost as a lexical division , similar to that dividing adjectives that can qualify animates from the rest . |
| 15 | This fact is used as if it constituted evidence against the theories that those chemists are trying to test . |
| 16 | Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana . |
| 17 | Subjective reality is treated as no less real than so-called objective reality , and what is thought , felt or imagined is recorded as if it were literally true . |
| 18 | The reason why ( 6 ) is perceived as if it was assignment is that the indefinitizing effect of the determiner means that the hearer is granted no more about the entity in post-copular position than : ( a ) The properties denoted by the noun used ; ( b ) The fact that it is an entity ; but the latter fact has already been given by the subject noun phrase ; hence the effect , with such a determiner , amounts to the same thing , in practice ( but not in terms of intensional pattern ) , as simple assignment . |
| 19 | In this vein , nationalism is described as if it were some independent ideology , strangely based upon a sense of belonging to a particular national or ethnic group , with its traditions and a so-called common history . |