Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] if it [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August . |
| 2 | The target may make the usual response just as if it had been charged in the normal manner . |
| 3 | The unit must take a fear test immediately just as if it had been charged by an enemy that caused fear . |
| 4 | If engaged in hand-to-hand fighting the unit will break if it fails the test and may be pursued just as if it had been broken in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 5 | A vidicon TV camera can provide an input to such systems , and the image from the TV camera is stored in a memory bank just as if it had been read from a disc file ( as would be the case with a remotely-sensed image ( Chapter 5 ) ) . |
| 6 | Picking up a hefty cleaver he chopped the green skinned creature clean in half as easily as if it had been a stick of celery . |
| 7 | Pascoe took his hand away as if it had been stung . |
| 8 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 9 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 10 | Thus the narrow strict sense of elite , though sometimes used misleadingly as if it had been demonstrated satisfactorily , is rarely applied consistently throughout an argument in modern elite theory . |
| 11 | It was almost as if it had been surgically removed along with his appendix when he was a kid . |
| 12 | It was very strange , almost as if it had been timed to happen , but the social worker came and was set to take you away . |