Example sentences of "act as [subord] [pron] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , we all have to live and act as if we were sure and as if we had reliable knowledge . |
| 2 | According to IBM , DFS — which enables an assortment of files on a network to look and act as if they were local — is up and running in the labs and is scheduled for beta test by the end of the first quarter . |
| 3 | But in fact those they sought to protect often did not act as if they were passive . |
| 4 | There are important questions in relation to housing policy concerning the extent to which a free market can operate and the extent to which public housing authorities should act as if they were private business concerns . |
| 5 | Compton proposed that the quantum of light could act as if it were a particle , and he christened this the photon . |
| 6 | Call a child stupid often enough , and she will act as if she were stupid , which almost amounts to becoming stupid . |
| 7 | Only Lori could act as if she were meeting a bosom friend for tea and a chat , when the reality was something light-years removed . |
| 8 | ‘ Run ! ’ he yelled to Lou , and the two boys , acting as if they were being pursued by the evil agents of an alien warlord , fairly streaked along the road . |
| 9 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 10 | We can do so much more than simply acting as if we were all Victorians . |
| 11 | For if a limited partner does become involved in ordinary management business , he becomes liable for those debts and obligations incurred by the firm whilst so acting as if he were a general partner . |
| 12 | The loan is being made through the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) , the bank 's private sector arm , which environmentalists accuse of acting as if it were exempt from the Bank 's environmental directions . |
| 13 | ‘ Now and again you have this unbecoming habit of acting as if you were a tortured innocent , ’ he said shortly . |
| 14 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 15 | Occasionally we hear of people of very advanced years who appear and act as if they were in their prime , both mentally and physically . |
| 16 | They are the guiding fictions which we repeat to ourselves so often , and with such conviction , that we forget that they are simply themes in a script we have written , and act as if they were true . |
| 17 | The followers of a charismatically inspired prophet may , for a while , feel and act as if they were all equally members of God 's elect , but if the community is to survive , the " routinization of charisma " , to use Weber 's term , always recreates a hierarchically ordered social structure . |
| 18 | Act as if it were already true . |
| 19 | I have had gill flukes ( not personally ! ) and my fish did n't scratch ; they acted as if they were being poisoned ( heightened colour , loss of control of movement ) , possibly because of oxygen depletion due to gill damage . |
| 20 | But it is in our own interests to act as if they were there . |
| 21 | He proposed that decision-makers should be understood to act as if they were maximizing utility . |
| 22 | Government has sought to encourage departments to act as if they were commercial organisations , or indeed to become profit-making operations . |
| 23 | It was the only sensible way really , to act as if they were old friends and not old lovers . |
| 24 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 25 | For long chains , co-operative motion can not be expected to extend along the entire length , and the polymer tends to act as if it were composed of a series of interconnected , but independent , kinetic units . |
| 26 | Trust Claire to act as if she were the centre of attention . |