Example sentences of "[vb pp] as if [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion is often made that a couple should not be treated as if they were living as husband and wife unless the man is actually giving the woman financial support . |
| 2 | Each £250 or part of £250 will be treated as if it were bringing in an income of £1 a week . |
| 3 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 4 | The Council , said the author , should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines . |
| 5 | They were short and deformed and looked as if they were made of rubber . |
| 6 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 7 | ‘ He said it was because the seams looked as if they were going somewhere … ’ |
| 8 | The early fusion experiments looked as if they were making great strides toward the desired goal . |
| 9 | He lifted a hand , and looked as if he was going to touch her cheek , and then dropped it . |
| 10 | Dad looked as if he was dying for a cigarette : he gave up smoking two years ago when his secretary-before-last got lung cancer . |
| 11 | The headmaster looked as if he was fighting off a large insect that was homing in on his neck . |
| 12 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 13 | The village looked as if it was dying . |
| 14 | The fire looked as if it was laughing at her troubles . |
| 15 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 16 | She was neither young nor old , a tinker ; her hair , as with so many of them , looked as if it were bleached , while her skin was dark with outdoor living . |
| 17 | There were a few exceptions to prove the rule , but by and large the Commons looked as if it were fighting the class war rather than debating the need for the protection of wild mammals . |
| 18 | One woman looked as if she was carrying ice-skates , and maybe that meant that the lake should be frozen . |
| 19 | The woman looked as if she was suffering from a terminal liver disease . |
| 20 | One must beware especially of solutions that are presented as if they were based on the results of rigorous experimental tests and bear the stamp of proof . |
| 21 | When the period is over , critically examine what you have done as if you were looking at someone else 's efforts . |
| 22 | This house suddenly felt as if it were suffocating her . |
| 23 | Vitor seemed to have something beneath his skin which had connected with something beneath hers , and her breathing was quickening , her pulses raced , she no longer felt as if she was standing on solid ground . |
| 24 | In the first round of the championship , Miss Minoprio had frightened the life out of one , Miss Summerville , who later explained to the press that she had felt as if she were playing " a supernatural being " . |
| 25 | The Americans must have felt as if he was taking revenge on them for what had happened , but they had the final laugh since most of Rank 's films were n't very good . |
| 26 | Alexandra ate her pudding in two savage mouthfuls and gulped as if she was swallowing medicine . |
| 27 | This discussion implies three things for the definition of social policy : first , that the policies that are identified as ‘ social ’ should not be interpreted as if they were conceived and implemented with only the welfare of the public in mind ; second , that other policies , not conventionally identified as social policies , may make a comparable , or even greater , contribution to welfare ; third , that public policy should be seen as a whole in which social policies are significantly inter linked with other public policies . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't ever doubt that I want you , Isabel , ’ he said , his voice so hoarse that the words sounded as if they were torn from deep inside him . |
| 29 | The abbreviation as it travelled around the dot board , sounded as if someone were reading a map accordion-folded between Africa and India . |
| 30 | Bernard 's voice sounded as if it was opening a fete , big-hearted and patronizing . |