Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You talk about achieving a balance between idealism and realism as if we already have a perfect one . |
| 2 | We shouted our biological achievements at each other as if nothing else mattered . |
| 3 | The work was unplaced , but the concept was electrifying — a smooth , lacquered black box with an ominous bulge at one end , looking for all the world as if something inside wanted to escape . |
| 4 | He hoped fervently that they would go back to Florence and had dropped several hints in the hope of getting this information out of them , but the Captain was always concentrating on the job in hand as if nothing else mattered and the magistrate only smiled and nodded distractedly , his mind apparently elsewhere . |
| 5 | Stars could not shine were it not for particles — called neutrinos — that are so insubstantial that they have no mass at all and can travel right through a solid object like the Earth as if it simply did not exist . |