Example sentences of "as if this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it looks as if this behaviour is all about encouraging the ducklings to erm , go off on their own , as it were an and to start to run off and look for food . |
| 2 | It seemed as if this man would always somehow have the power to strip her of her narrow protective veneer to expose her vulnerability . |
| 3 | It was almost as if this boy , this child … |
| 4 | Sounded as if this Thiercelin was a good man . |
| 5 | However , as if this excitement were not enough , we were warned against malaria , bilharzia , and tsetse fly , all of which flourish in the swamps . |
| 6 | Alec sighed heavily , as if this scene were depressing him . |
| 7 | As with the discussion of Rousseau 's " second Discourse " , de Man translates an opposition into the terms of his own problematic and then proceeds as if this translation had not taken place . |
| 8 | • for the part of the payment between the exempt amount and £50,000 , first calculate your income tax as if this part were included in your income and then your tax as if it were not ; the relief on this part is half the difference ; • for the part between £50,000 and £75,000 , first calculate your tax as if the part between the exempt amount and £75,000 were included in your income , and then your tax as if only the part between the exempt amount and £50,000 were included ; the relief on this part is 25 per cent of the difference ; |
| 9 | ‘ You talk as if this building was alive or something , ’ said Cardiff . |
| 10 | as if this confession had turned her inside out , she scurried away from Jess round the side of the house . |
| 11 | It will be as if this conversation had never taken place . ’ |
| 12 | At first sight , it seems as if this painting portrays a primitive and horrific ‘ treatment ’ of madness . |
| 13 | ‘ On balance then it seems as if this change we have suggested might be a good thing . |
| 14 | the reception of Derrida 's work , perhaps more than that of any other recent French thinker , has been marked by an astonishingly casual and unquestioning acceptance of certain extremely condensed — not to say sloganistic — characterisations of the history of Western thought , as if this history could be dismissed through its reduction to a set of perfunctory dualisms . |
| 15 | In the first place it is noticeable that the great theme of his two Councils was the same as that of the Roman Council of 1059 , when the first effective legislation on clerical celibacy was initiated : it almost seems as if this subject had matured in his mind since that date ; certainly his early Deploratio virginitatis male amissae suggests that he may have had cause for thought on this subject . |
| 16 | as if this array of problems were not enough , the regime took a new one upon itself later in 1979 , when the US embassy on Takht-e-Jamshid Avenue was stormed by students and its occupants taken hostage . |
| 17 | However , he is still with us , and his contribution from the Dispatch Box was in his usual style , as if this House was not made up of Members of Parliament , but delegates , all with their blue rinses and red necks , applauding to the rafters when he makes one of his roustabout speeches to the Conservative party conference . |
| 18 | We had after all all heard it before , it was n't as if this number actually needed any introduction . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) The wife shall not so long as the husband shall punctually make the payments hereby agreed to be made commence or prosecute against the husband any matrimonial proceedings other than proceedings for dissolution of marriage but upon failure of the husband to make the said weekly payments as and when the same become due the wife shall be at full liberty on her election to pursue all and every remedy in this regard either by enforcement of the provisions hereof or as if this agreement had not been made.n So far as we know , the parties have remained apart ever since . |
| 20 | as if this indictment of classic cinema were not enough , Mulvey also drew attention to the role of castration anxiety in the unconscious dynamic of pleasure and unpleasure of film-viewing . |
| 21 | They were n't wiped away , so it looks as if this chap wore gloves . |
| 22 | The walls were a collage of tens of thousands of reptile skulls carved in gloomy green jade and malachite , as if this place was a saurian necropolis . |
| 23 | Sneaking off and joining up as if this war were some marvellous crusade , ’ Mama would have said . |
| 24 | It seems sometimes as if this theory , used to explain the processes not only of combustion but also calcination , definitely had been handed to Priestley for special keeping as he adhered to it unswervingly all his life . |
| 25 | Back on the road , they headed east in silence , Harry 's mind registering with calm intensity every mile and vista of their route , as if this process alone would bring him closer to what Heather had been thinking . |
| 26 | It sounded as if this woman was blaming Jennifer for falling ill , instead of her precious son for running out on the situation . |
| 27 | as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing , |
| 28 | Coleridge even dares to take on the subject of the workings of Nature , as it were , as he attempts to describe the power and intensity of the earth breathing ; his reference to the ‘ ceaseless turmoil seething , as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing ’ shows the poet getting almost as close to the heart of creativity as it is possible to do . |
| 29 | And from this chasm with ceaseless turmoil seething , as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing , A mighty fountain momently was forced . |
| 30 | And from this chasm , with ceaseless turmoil seething , as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing , A mighty fountain momently was forced . |