Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 31 | An action purporting to have been commenced against a person who is dead at its commencement is treated as if it had been commenced against his estate , whether or not a grant of representation had been issued at its commencement ( Ord 5 , r 8(3) ) . |
| 32 | If , exceptionally , it is a relevant European institution ( see page 37 above ) , it is technically not authorised under the FSA ; however , for the purposes of s 57 it is treated as if it was ( see para 17 of Sched 9 to the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) . |
| 33 | Section 742(8) states that for the purposes of this section any body corporate incorporated outside the United Kingdom shall be treated as if it were resident outside the United Kingdom , whether it is so resident or not . |
| 34 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 35 | The Council , said the author , should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines . |
| 36 | Consequently sport is of paramount importance to him and every event has to be approached as if it is the most demanding in his life ; failure is not easily assimilated , as a result . |
| 37 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 38 | The window looked as if it belonged to a toilet . |
| 39 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 40 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 41 | Suddenly my short journalistic career looked as if it would stay short . |
| 42 | There were a few exceptions to prove the rule , but by and large the Commons looked as if it were fighting the class war rather than debating the need for the protection of wild mammals . |
| 43 | She was neither young nor old , a tinker ; her hair , as with so many of them , looked as if it were bleached , while her skin was dark with outdoor living . |
| 44 | It was brownish-yellow and very tattered and looked as if it might be the real thing . |
| 45 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 46 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 47 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 48 | That enamel mug looked as if it might be his . |
| 49 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 50 | The peseta 's devaluation on May 13th looked as if it might help the right-of-centre opposition People 's Party , but the party 's leader , Jose Maria Aznar , failed to exploit the opportunity and polls taken after the devaluation showed the ruling Socialists nosing ahead . |
| 51 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |
| 52 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 53 | When gardening he often wore very baggy trousers with braces , gum boots and a waist-length black donkey jacket which hung loose and looked as if it was too short . |
| 54 | The Dome itself , designed by Ralph Tubbs , looked as if it had descended from Mars . |
| 55 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 56 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 57 | The miniature stainless-steel kitchenette looked as if it had never been cooked in . |
| 58 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 59 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 60 | His small suitcase had been packed , and looked as if it was ready to go . |