Example sentences of "behave as [subord] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At low levels of excitation this structure , outlined in Fig. 1 , will obviously behave as if it were an inefficient transformer . |
| 2 | King 's Jester used to be a very spooky horse and would shy at the same jump , stacked in the corner of the school , every single day and if anything was moved to a different position , he would behave as if it were about to leap out and get him . |
| 3 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |
| 4 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 5 | There was no difference between a chick that was totally full of worms and could n't have handled any more worms , but still as it were , behaved as if it was on the point of starvation , and a chick that was really hungry , had in fact , observation shows that , what parents do when they come back with , with the food is , very often they , they probe the throats of the chicks with their beaks , to see which one 's got much most room before they actually put the food in . |
| 6 | The best way to face irresistible change is to behave as if it were welcome . |
| 7 | The trouble with Caitlin was he still behaved as if it was the old days , when everyone wanted to help out the police . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The Venerable David Silk , Archdeacon of Leicester , summing up the theological opposition , said that in ordaining women the Church of England would ‘ cease to be part of the Catholic , apostolic church and would be behaving as if it were the whole of Christianity , or a mere sect ’ . |
| 10 | Doctor Hensman was still in charge , making solemn authoritative pronouncements and predictions , and behaving as if it were he who had cured the patient . |
| 11 | Out of bed , in a companionship reliant upon my entering his fantasy world and behaving as if it were real , we did less well , eventually . |
| 12 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 13 | He does not do this by behaving as if it were his personal project , but by quietly ensuring that things get done as decided . |
| 14 | He does not do this by behaving as if it were his personal project , but by quietly ensuring that things get done as decided . |
| 15 | With Brussels seemingly uninterested in the problems facing British trade publishers in trying to protect their UK territorial rights against single market requirements while US editions wash about the Continent , and with US publishers deaf to arguments that Community law effectively means the end of the open market of Europe , UK publishers continue to put out early export editions simply to compete with US publishers in a market that still behaves as if it were open . |
| 16 | Although light is made up of waves , Planck 's quantum hypothesis tells us that in some ways it behaves as if it were composed of particles : it can be emitted or absorbed only in packets , or quanta . |