Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate watched her mother and Patrick as if in a trance . |
| 2 | The injustice of life stung her bitterly — Sylvester getting them Bones and co as if they were straight out of the champions ' parade at the Horse of the Year Show and not even knowing that some horses jumped and some did n't , and thinking that all weedy little Hoomey needed was motivation to become Seb Coe the second … |
| 3 | The south coast of Devon bulges into the Channel between Exeter and Plymouth as if being pushed out to sea by the bulk of Dartmoor and reaching out towards France . |
| 4 | She accepted the farewells of her parents and brothers as if in a dream : her real self seemed to hold aloof from the tearful embraces of her mother , the kisses of her brothers , and her father 's last loving hug before she stepped into the boat to be rowed out across the harbour . |
| 5 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 6 | For a second her eyes searched his face in case there was a vestige of suspicion left , but he held her close , fingers running continually through her tousled mop of blonde hair , lips pressuring her face and neck as if he could never touch her enough . |
| 7 | Presentations can be constructed by laying out graphs and images as if they were slides . |
| 8 | Again the boy looked down at his hands , staring at his arms and legs as if they did n't belong to him . |
| 9 | With a view toward facilitating the use of electronic bills of lading , the Law Commissions recommended that the Secretary of State be empowered to ‘ make provision by regulations for information given by means other than in writing to be of equivalent force and effect as if it had been given in writing . ’ |
| 10 | with System Ten has announced a family of control servers which will enable us to control this network of servers and clients as if it was a single machine . |
| 11 | The lad Steve came into the room , silently like a little cat ; he was wearing a dressing-gown and pyjamas as if he had started to go to bed , but decided against . |
| 12 | It looks from points N and M as if the linear charge distribution would be very long indeed , perhaps infinitely long . |
| 13 | This night Moran enunciated each repetitious word with a slow clarity and force as if the very dwelling on suffering , death and human supplication would scatter all flimsy vanities of a greater world ; and the muted responses giving back their acceptance of human servitude did not improve his humour . |
| 14 | The woman walked around Masklin and Angalo as if they were items on display . |
| 15 | The ‘ pilot ’ sits inside a spherical unit which can rotate through 360 degrees , allowing the player to roll and loop as if he were really inside the aircraft ! |
| 16 | Meanwhile the ethereal life of Ranveer , Bubbles and Socks , an unworldly trio who react in a childlike way to every sling and arrow as if permanently looking for Nanny , starts to unravel when a new administrator takes over the game park with thinly veiled hostility towards his country 's nobility . |
| 17 | Nevertheless it is still of concern that studies such as this treat Asians and Afro-Caribbeans as if they were a homogenous group . |
| 18 | ‘ The Department , ’ he says , ‘ frequently talk about teachers and parents as if we are two entirely different groups . |
| 19 | It is important that a long-net should be set completely clear of sticks and brambles for if these become entangled within the net it can not function properly . |
| 20 | Again it was done live and so , from the cast 's point-of-view , they were expected to learn their lines and movements as if they were doing a conventional four act stage play . |
| 21 | The words and his tone lit a glorious fire in Merrill 's blood that consumed the weeks of misery and suspicion as if they had never been . |
| 22 | Helped by Vladimir Riha 's reedy , unhoneyed tone , this performance comes over with irresistible rustic pungency and vigour as if in the open air rather than the Beaux Arts ' drawingroom . |
| 23 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 24 | To the group of accountants at each location , it looks to all intents and purposes as if the group has its own system . |
| 25 | The Centro de Orientacion Rosa Virginia Pelletier is under armed guard and is run to all intents and purposes as if it were a prison , although in 1980 there were only two young offenders in residence . |
| 26 | He said it was to prevent the priest being mixed up , it was an opportunity to a new priest to come in and sort of if it had become he could establish groups . |
| 27 | the work will be still continued on that , but also in terms of Bungay itself , we 're looking at whether county management can look at this and sort of if you like identify it , so we have n't abandoned Bungay , far from it , we 're still concerned with the , we 've got the , the base of the facts still go on er and , and we 're gon na continue on Monday . |
| 28 | But can you get those higher prices when there are people , the Gulf sheikhs of waste , who can afford to forget tomorrow and charge as if space , like oil , came free — as to them , perhaps , it does ? |
| 29 | In order to make some headway in describing and analysing language , we have had temporarily to treat linguistic units and structures as if they had an independent status and possessed ‘ meaning ’ in their own right . |
| 30 | ‘ After the date of the publication of a complete specification and until the sealing of a patent in respect thereof , the applicant shall have the like privileges and rights as if a patent for the invention had been sealed on the date of the publication of the complete specification : Provided that an applicant shall not be entitled to institute any proceedings for infringement until the patent has been sealed . |