Example sentences of "as if it [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it looks as if it may not all be called . |
| 2 | The collapse of Taurus will also give revenue an unexpected bonus as the scrapping of stamp duty on share dealings will be postponed , while Government borrowing looks as if it may not be spiralling out of control at quite the rate first feared . |
| 3 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 4 | Your , your correct address is , is road is n't it , it 's still reads as if it might not be , please note that on the membership list , Velma 's address is not Avenue . |
| 5 | And this year 's general trade was looking as if it might not equal last year 's , until Monday 21st December , when , with many companies and all the schools having closed , panic buying on an old-fashioned scale happened , ’ reported John Lauder . |
| 6 | My sea 's very upset : as if it ca n't |
| 7 | It was hardly likely the sun would be cracking the skies , but it looked as if it would soon be out . |
| 8 | It seemed as if it would not be long before a treatment was found for every disease . |
| 9 | It felt dead , marooned , abandoned , as if it would never move . |
| 10 | The second is that even if the stockmarket does eventually rise by enough to persuade holders to exercise the warrants , issuers will have to plan and to some extent act as if it will not . |
| 11 | He says ‘ SAG efforts are frozen , it ca n't decide which way to go and does n't look as if it will ever get its act together . ’ |
| 12 | It is a lovely city , the war seems very far away , as if it can never reach me there . ’ |
| 13 | In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure . |
| 14 | All the time , we were making love as we wrote our poems , in a great wave of inspiration and tenderness that seemed as if it could never end . |
| 15 | Why could a man 's voice in the night create an ache in a person so deep and so wide that it felt as if it could never be filled ? |