Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] it have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In the event of your death before the date of maturity your TESSA will be treated as if it had matured at the date of death and gross interest will be paid up to and including that date .
2 The room was deserted and desolate : the arctic blue bubble of the drinking water machine looked as if it had turned to ice , two desk lights burned pointlessly above unoccupied desks and the rubbish bins were still brimming with polystyrene cups and waste paper .
3 The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers .
4 The Dome itself , designed by Ralph Tubbs , looked as if it had descended from Mars .
5 It dates to about 1780 and looks as if it has landed by magic carpet .
6 Arbroath 's south transept even looks as if it has smelt the wind under which it will sail ; it is a tall , bare , one-shouldered hulk with a single blank eye at the high gable top where a rose window used to be .
7 It looks as if it has come straight out of a childrens ’ story book , for it is round with cosy little windows peeping out of the almost conical thatched roof .
8 ‘ The brent [ German brand = burned ] goose looks as if it has stuck its head and neck up a chimney and emerged sooty black — although with a little of its ‘ clerical collar ’ still clean .
9 And , as this post here , with , whatever it is , it looks as if it 's got some paddings on the ground , maybe a , a boat sometimes gets moored up to it and that 's just to stop the boat er banging up agai maybe the tide comes in that far , I do n't know .
10 I do n't know , it looks as if it 's got some grit in it for when it gets icy I suppose you have to put he grit down there .
11 All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise .
12 Insignia declines to comment on whether it has licensed Windows source code , though one Insignia insider said the company has had a Windows license for two years .
13 What are you looking for cos it 's got ta be linked to what you 're applying for if you 're applying
14 At first it seemed as if it had happened to someone else , and entertaining on that merit alone .
15 So I think the inescapable logic of of this and I think this was accepted by and it 's accepted by the County Surveyor certainly if not by the County Planning Officer , is that the new settlement for access reasons , should be on the A sixty four north east corridor .
16 well he 's going through it and he said well it looks alright to me and I say well it does n't look as if it 's connected , any way I won , I could see why then it did n't look connected
17 Part of the problem is the HYPO , a fine orchestra which just does not sound as if it has lived with the piece in the way that the Gewandhaus Orchestra have ever since they gave the world première under Nikisch on December 30th 1884 .
18 SLUMP is where the recession is heading to once it has gone through depression .
19 Look at that it 's got things sticking out .
20 His self-conscious gaucheness vanished as if it had evaporated in the thin cold air of the mountains and he found friends .
21 That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script .
22 Oh it sounds as if it 's got like a K on it
23 The Damsel certainly sounds as if it has gone blind through an undetermined infection .
24 ‘ It seems as if it has become fashionable to suggest that Manchester United might suddenly become nervous .
25 About one quarter of Oxfordshire teachers are unsure as to whether their review and report had led directly to any change at all and with regard to whether it had improved teaching methods , over a third were unsure .
26 Magic had descended from somewhere and made her invisible ; and in the process it had … well , it felt as if it had killed her .
27 It looked as if it had gone straight over the side and into the valley .
28 It looked as if it had landed there by chance , like a piece of paper or a leaf .
29 The exposed skin was flushed and glowing ; here and there it resembled tanned leather and , in some cases , it looked as if it had split and healed , and split again .
30 I had a chillingly clear picture of its abominable face : it had so many wrinkles and boils it looked as if it had lived for centuries .
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