Example sentences of "as [conj] [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As if we were both tossing and turning and |
| 2 | Scientists from the NEC corporation in Japan have developed a Virtual Reality ski slope that is so realistic users experience exactly the same stress as if they were really hurtling down a mountain . |
| 3 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 4 | When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge . |
| 5 | God 's grace can be as much misused when it is wrongly applied to those who are oversensitive as when it is completely forgotten by those who are insensitive . |
| 6 | Long thought to be a mystery , Coade stone is now known to be a ceramic body , and the British Museum research laboratory 's analysis in 1985 showed that it was a form of stoneware so resistant to the weather that it is as precise today as when it was originally made . |
| 7 | a planation surface need not be presently under the same climatic regime as when it was initially developed ; |
| 8 | Sounds to me as though they 're just sell stuff , I I do n't know ! |
| 9 | He smiled infuriatingly at her , lifting a hand to run it over his dark hair , seemingly as relaxed as though they were just sharing a pleasant little chat rather than this frosty interview . |
| 10 | There , they were brilliant and I felt as though they were just starting to work when finished . |
| 11 | " It almost looks as though they were just going through the cupboards , examining the stuff , as it were , the plainclothes man said . |
| 12 | But others looked as though they were desperately trying to find a way out , gazing to the ceiling deep in thought . |
| 13 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 14 | We 're behaving as though we 're already beaten . |
| 15 | No one expected to achieve anything much after lunch , so the mood was languid and light-hearted , as though we were just pretending . |
| 16 | I must have studied her with attention for I find that I can at this moment , however reluctantly , see her face before me as distinctly as though I was still sitting in that coffee bar with a quarter of an inch of the brown dregs left in my cup . |
| 17 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 18 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 19 | It 's just standing there , and you take one [ garment ] from the pile and stick it on the ironing board and iron it , fold it , and put it down , take the next one — and it 's as though it 's never going to end . |
| 20 | He 's much more in his element in prometheus , which heaves and sighs as though it 's actually giving birth to fire . |
| 21 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 22 | ‘ Damian … ! ’ she whispered , saying his name as though it was the most precious sound in the world , gaining intense pleasure from it on her lips as though she was really saying , I love you , I love you . |
| 23 | More and more , Beth found herself acting as the buffer between them , and curiously enough , at times when she sought to protect him , it seemed as though she was actually having to fight her own husband . |
| 24 | For one brief moment it felt as though she was almost drowning in ecstasy , and then she felt Ross removing his lips , cursing violently under his breath as he withdrew his arms from about her body . |
| 25 | And when he bent his head , first to one breast and then the other , his lips closing over her swollen nipples , she felt as though she was almost going to die of excitement . |
| 26 | It is as though she was deliberately coaxed into that warm and shabby coffee bar by whatever saving force or spirit I can feel ever more strongly in this no longer quite so bleak habitation of mine . |
| 27 | He looked as though she was deliberately punishing him . |
| 28 | ‘ Julia , ’ she said , as though she were just waking up . |
| 29 | " Thanks , " he said , drily , " oh , thanks ! " and began stripping off his jersey , as though she were already gone . |
| 30 | Had she really managed to look as though she were still holding together ? |