Example sentences of "as [subord] it [be] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The order for maintenance sounds as if it is something which will be enforced in specie ; yet in fact there is neither good reason to believe this , nor any need for that to be done . |
| 2 | Chopping as if she really means it , the sharp knife hacking through the orange flesh , the bits flying , almost as if it is something personal . |
| 3 | I watch my face and I watch it move as if it is someone else 's . |
| 4 | Only we are behaving as if it 's nothing to do with us and that only the West is to blame for the thousands who turn their back on us . ’ |
| 5 | We sometimes use the term ‘ equity ’ , or words corresponding to it , in popular language as if it was something altogether outside law . |
| 6 | She sounded as if it was something he was going to be pleased about . |
| 7 | as if it was something only experience could teach , he advised , ‘ If they have a gun or a knife , whatever you 've got , hand it over . |
| 8 | The good news is that as none of your other fishes have shown any signs of disease it sounds as if it was something non-infectious , so that you should have nothing to worry about regarding their health . |
| 9 | He knew that Grainne was gentle and strong and sensitive ; he knew this as if it was something he had been born knowing ; even so , he found himself remembering that the Wolfline were said to have old enchantments in their blood , and that the old enchantments were tinged with the dark sinister magic of the first sorcerers , and that the descendants of those long-ago Wolfkings could still spin their own bewitchments and weave their own spells . |
| 10 | But Joe did n't let the remark hang , as if it was something that he 'd felt compelled to let her know but did n't want to discuss any further ; he said , ‘ Are we going to stay here , or move somewhere warmer ? |
| 11 | Hilary , coming out of his reverie , noticed his discomfiture , and smiled as if it was something of not the slightest importance : ‘ The suggestion has been made , ’ he said . |
| 12 | He ran and kissed Lucie on the forehead , as if it was something he did routinely every day . |
| 13 | And then , delicately , as if it was something she hardly wanted to admit to , ‘ Much . ’ |
| 14 | Both Michael and Carrie do not use their TK powers to cause a knife to kill someone , instead they controlled the death as if it was something they really wanted . |
| 15 | I could write as if it was someone else … ’ |
| 16 | She went along the landing and down the staircase , still in a waking dream , crossing the hall and seeing Penman there , waiting to open the drawing-room door for her , as if it was someone she was watching perform , not herself but another being altogether . |
| 17 | This piece of advice might suggest that his grasp of the ‘ new psychology ’ was still at the rudimentary stage , since he speaks of a neurosis as if it were something avoidable . |
| 18 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 19 | One nice Tory gentleman tells me ‘ I 've done this for all the parties in my time , you know , ’ as if it were something to be proud of . |
| 20 | Seeing how the boy stared at Hammond 's hand a moment before tentatively offering his own , how he studied the meeting of their hands , as if it were something wholly new to him , Spatz understood . |
| 21 | A gang of black workers wearing white loincloths faced the camera gravely , looking as if it were something they might be given to eat . |
| 22 | They also avoid the division of parts , as if it were something of extreme difficulty , and forget altogether that it is by no means necessary to have all the voices singing all the time . |
| 23 | Caro had noticed before the way her mother always avoided referring to the accident and Caro 's time in hospital , almost as if it were something obscene . |
| 24 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 25 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 26 | She heard herself say , as if it were someone else : ‘ What is it you want from life , Christopher ? |
| 27 | Then she thought , hard and suddenly as if it were someone else 's thought , I 'm in love with someone who 's not Anne . |