Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [subord] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At low levels of excitation this structure , outlined in Fig. 1 , will obviously behave as if it were an inefficient transformer . |
| 2 | King 's Jester used to be a very spooky horse and would shy at the same jump , stacked in the corner of the school , every single day and if anything was moved to a different position , he would behave as if it were about to leap out and get him . |
| 3 | Compton proposed that the quantum of light could act as if it were a particle , and he christened this the photon . |
| 4 | In his experiment , Gould painted over the ocelli ( small light-sensitive organs ) of some of the members of a hive , which would then dance as if it were dark , but otherwise behave normally . |
| 5 | ‘ We say he took her life and then made it look as if it was suicide . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , the move seems generally acceptable for them , subject only to the natural constraint that it will be proscribed in certain cases where the adjective would consequently look as if it were attributive , with the result that an incorrect meaning would apparently be expressed ; for example : ( 19 ) this potion makes dogs bald ( 20 ) this potion makes bald dogs For the second reason , we turn to some additional aspects of questions . |
| 7 | Opening the prosecution case at Liverpool Crown Court , Mr Klevan alleged that Gilfoyle , a former private in the Royal Army Medical Corps , ‘ took her life and thereafter made it look as if it were suicide . ’ |
| 8 | The English embryologist , John Gurdon , in an extensive series of experiments performed during the 1960s , showed that if he transplanted the nucleus from one of the cells of the blastula of early toad embryo it could function as if it were the toad egg 's nucleus . |
| 9 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 10 | I could write as if it was someone else … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It made it seem as if it was going to be superficial . |
| 12 | The whole scene to my informant was as clear as a bell , but on reflection it would seem as if it was part of an earlier railway system . |
| 13 | Sometimes it can seem as if it was yesterday . |
| 14 | It did n't read like some pick-up place where everyone went off together for topless holidays ; nor did it make it seem as if it was your fault for not having a social life . |
| 15 | I was getting used to the odd feeling of distance , which made it seem as if it was all about someone else , but it was alarming to see how most of the articles highlighted the love-story angle , rather than the conditions in which John was held or the reasons I 'd given as to why the Government should be doing more . |
| 16 | It was not warm , but it was sheltered from the wind outside , and the stillness and randomness of the tools and litter gave it an almost religious significance , made it seem as if it was waiting . |
| 17 | Why was he making it seem as if it was her fault , her choice ? |
| 18 | ‘ He … he made it seem as if it was somehow … my fault . |
| 19 | Certain it is , in stormy weather , from any point of the compass you will have a blow on Stormy Hill , and it does further seem as if it were tenanted by those who in the voyage of life have weathered storms quite as real , — long sickness , pinching poverty , and mayhap , in some cases , that very terrible malady when it becomes chronic , a disinclination to regular work ; and their present lot is one of storms , — few comforts and short allowance even of the needs of life within doors , and the wintry blasts without ; and failing health and increasing age give small prospect of much more of the sunshine or fewer of the blasts on this side of the dark River Jordan . |
| 20 | Some of the people I can still visualize as if it were yesterday . |