Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] it be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The furniture stands around listlessly , as if it is waiting to be sold . |
| 2 | Graham says that if the set-up is a success — and it certainly looks as if it 's going to be — he may take on more charity tanks in the future . |
| 3 | But these days , if it looks as if it 's going to be nasty , I take the easy way out . |
| 4 | Does n't look as if it 's going to be dry to me . |
| 5 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 6 | Yes please , is the helicopter sounds as if it 's going to the hospital , oh yes , look there it is , ever so close , can you see it Tim ? |
| 7 | There 's actually a very different difficult problem with sexual harassment , which is that erm there are occasions when it looks as if it 's going to be difficult for a college not to go ahead , even when the victim has withdrawn her or his complaint . |
| 8 | Oddly the land on which it sits was actually called Folly Hill before the building was added , as if it was fated to be there . |
| 9 | The brain was throbbing rhythmically , looking as if it was trying to well up out of the hole in the scalp . |
| 10 | The tune sounds as if it was dictated to Rose Fox by a three-year-old child . |
| 11 | His paintings were rather angular , with the nose , in particular , appearing as if it was glued to the canvas in an echo of Cubism . |
| 12 | This college seemed as if it was going to be the best thing that happened to me . |
| 13 | ‘ It made it seem as if it was going to be superficial . |
| 14 | It was more like the noise dogs make sometimes — a see-sawing musical phrase , as if it was talking to someone you could n't see . |
| 15 | She put the envelope down on the small table that served double duty as desk and dining surface , eased off her shoes , and stepped out of the cotton dress that felt as if it were struck to her damp skin . |
| 16 | But the theremin played its part by itself , as if it were programmed to . |
| 17 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 18 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 19 | So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed . |
| 20 | He must also have regard to the matters set out in paragraphs ( a ) to ( f ) of the checklist in s1(3) ( see Chapter 9 , 6(b) ) as if it were addressed to him and not to the court . |
| 21 | This morning , having forced herself to her study , still wearing her dressing-gown and clutching a second cup of coffee as if it were attached to a lifeline , she began searching among her papers for the output of the previous day . |
| 22 | But it was n't to be and as a result we now have fewer engineers and probably fewer skilled people in industry than ever before : crumbly foundations to build upon if it is going to be built along the old traditional lines . |
| 23 | Different elements of the term objectification may be emphasized , depending upon whether it is applied to the process of ontogenesis , culture or modernity . |