Example sentences of "[prep] if it " in BNC.
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| 61 | It 's as if it 's too powerful for choreographers to cope with . |
| 62 | Not only is the creature convincingly modelled and animated , but ray tracing and lighting effects are used to give accurate refraction and reflection so that it really does look as if it is made of water . |
| 63 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 64 | By the second week , it looked as if it was going to catch on . |
| 65 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 66 | The best way to face irresistible change is to behave as if it were welcome . |
| 67 | It says the company 's marketing of Cisco is dangerously deceptive ; it induces unsuspecting teenagers to guzzle it as if it were a standard spritzer . |
| 68 | The second is that even if the stockmarket does eventually rise by enough to persuade holders to exercise the warrants , issuers will have to plan and to some extent act as if it will not . |
| 69 | ‘ Eastern Europe ’ sounds as if it might include the unreforming Soviet Union . |
| 70 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 71 | Somehow I feel as if it were purer — certainly it would be honester- ‘ to do the thing we fear ’ . |
| 72 | It is no wonder that what we see becomes identified with , and spoken of as if it were the same as , what we touch . |
| 73 | We sometimes use the term ‘ equity ’ , or words corresponding to it , in popular language as if it was something altogether outside law . |
| 74 | But if the child is never born alive , things will remain as if it had never existed . |
| 75 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 76 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 77 | When the Alternative Service Book was threatening the absolutism of the Book of Common Prayer a few years ago , the Book of Common Prayer was being spoken of as if it were on a par with Holy Writ . |
| 78 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 79 | She heard herself say , as if it were someone else : ‘ What is it you want from life , Christopher ? |
| 80 | She sounded as if it was something he was going to be pleased about . |
| 81 | The window looked as if it belonged to a toilet . |
| 82 | It sounded as if it was somewhere up in the farm buildings . |
| 83 | He could picture the scene as if it were yesterday . |
| 84 | He had said that he was ‘ married with one son ’ on his book jacket , too , as if it was some unusual career . |
| 85 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 86 | All the time , we were making love as we wrote our poems , in a great wave of inspiration and tenderness that seemed as if it could never end . |
| 87 | We had our little mock boxing-matches , in my study , circling round the table as if it were a ring . |
| 88 | Strange , because he , an elderly bachelor , dry and very conventional , seemed perfectly composed , as if it were the most natural thing in the world that Mrs McLaren 's white hair should be hanging about her shoulders , and that she was naked to the waist , showing all her poor sad bosom , her clothes hanging from her sodden with water . |
| 89 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 90 | ’ As I read it we could not restrain abundant tears and I felt instinctively as if it were a gentle , loving hint to us to be prepared for what followed . ’ |