Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of Condition In If it rains today I sha n't go shopping the clause if it rains today qualifies sha n't go . |
| 2 | It was necessary in 1859 to write about the process of evolution as if it produced the best of all possible worlds , a substitute for the finger of the Almighty at work . |
| 3 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 4 | He remembered the vivid sunsets of his boyhood and the way the sun would hang like a crimson ball above the edge of the trees surrounding their house and then plunge out of sight as if it had been dropped in a moment of carelessness . |
| 5 | Then it would presumably spot some potential prey and come to a standstill in mid-air as if it had brakes . |
| 6 | There was a table beside it and a pipe lay on top as if it had been left just for a moment . |