Example sentences of "as [subord] they [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most companies have a lackadaisical approach to recruitment — as if they 're doing us a great favour . ’ |
| 2 | Debate going on at my feet — sounds as if they 're going to take over . |
| 3 | Not just accept them as if they 're inevitable . |
| 4 | ‘ They do n't look as if they 're seeing . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not as if they 're poaching us or anything . |
| 6 | They 've sacrificed some of their originality for a more ‘ contemporary ’ sound , yet it 's encouraging that they show such willingness to innovate — even if it does sound as if they 're still stumbling through the undergrowth . |
| 7 | It 's as if they 're saying : ‘ There 's a ten foot wall — jump over it . ’ |
| 8 | It 's as if they 're expecting you to fail academically ; and , if the teacher expects you to fail , then you begin to believe it yourself and you do . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not very clever , because it makes the parents look as if they 're idiots when they 're not — it says more about him than the people he 's speaking about . ’ |
| 10 | Within a day or so the newcomers have appointments fixed with social security to get some money and when it looks as if they 're staying , negotiations begin with schools to admit their children . |
| 11 | Looks as if they 're not here Your Worships . |
| 12 | What do the control rods sound as if they 're doing ? |
| 13 | And yes , it infuriates her when magazines run ‘ Big Is Beautiful ’ features as if they 're indulging a minority of readers . |
| 14 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 15 | Er and in the South Midlands ' section , I think it is erm towards Coventry and Nuneaton , we have got erm I can even remember the name of the Guild it 's we 've got a lot of younger women in there and these are younger women that , it 's very , I 'm very pleased to see them and when you see them go to the rostrum you can , you know they really are , they seem as if they 're a revival of the old camp because we , we 've got to campaign you see and but you , you try , I mean I 'm getting beyond it really myself and yet you see , you try and whip up erm an aging movement it you , you want younger women you see . |
| 16 | They 're a bit like a cat 's , they look as if they 're lit up , from inside , pale green like a cat 's . |
| 17 | Gets used to using them as if they 're real . |
| 18 | They wear lipstick , and shoes with high heels , and they walk down the road bravely , as if they 're not afraid of anything , as if the world is theirs , as if they have n't got mothers who seem to die a little every time they go out of the door . |
| 19 | Your fingers look as if they 're made of jelly . |
| 20 | as if they 're saying , ‘ look at me , see what I 've got ’ . ’ |
| 21 | They make as if they 're gon na break into the room , and one of these guys is enjoying himself saying how he 's decided to rape her and then hand her to the dog . |
| 22 | ‘ No , but I 've heard about the place , and I must say they sound as if they 're rather exciting , ’ Lucy said with a certain amount of truth . |
| 23 | To me they sound as if they 're very similar — so be warned . |
| 24 | It looks as if they 're trying to get rid of him . ’ |
| 25 | What I said was , it looks as if they 're here . |
| 26 | Reading some sections of the media recently , children of lone parents are talked about as as if they 're nothing but a drain on state resources . |
| 27 | I should think it sounds as if they 're both teaching in the same school , myself , |
| 28 | it 's not as , it 's not as , it 's not as if they 're right in that corner as you come in from , from er Farnsfield , a a a as Mike said there 's a twenty foot fe hedge there , which is going to be kept . |
| 29 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |
| 30 | She glanced at the other two and , not waiting for a reply , she went on , ‘ He 's so caring , he treats them as if they 're his personal friends … ’ |