Example sentences of "[noun] as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want a new car , then cherish your beaten-up old Ford as if it were a gleaming red convertible . |
| 2 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 3 | He strode briskly into the building as if nothing had happened . |
| 4 | Some energy from point Q is also detected by the sensor as if it had originated at P , due to scattering at S1 . |
| 5 | Judgements made in the course of a lecture will be taken down in notes as if they were facts , whereas it is in the nature of critical judgements that they can not be taken over by others ; it is on this dilemma , I believe , that Leavisism ultimately foundered . |
| 6 | In particular , I do not claim that the text " " presents " " these units " , in practice he picks out intonational units from the text as if they were given ( albeit he sometimes admits to ambiguities of prosodic structure ) . |
| 7 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
| 8 | So , you can rotate , stretch and generally fiddle with text as if it was a square or what have you . |
| 9 | The park lay in sodden neglect , sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out . |
| 10 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 11 | His companion , swathed in a dark tawny robe as if he felt the cold , was a different kettle of fish : jet black hair framed a white face . |
| 12 | Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there . |
| 13 | I swilled down the half-pint of champagne as if it was bitter lemon . |
| 14 | ‘ I think it would be a good idea if we all had a swim before breakfast , do n't you ? ’ he said , the announcement seized upon with alacrity by the two little girls who , once again , began jumping up and down on the mattress as if it were a trampoline . |
| 15 | She was a little woman , not much taller than Carrie , but she seemed strong as a railway porter , carrying their cases as if they weighed nothing . |
| 16 | ITN 's News at Ten homes in on Big Ben as if it were the only part of London that mattered . |
| 17 | Immediately the two brutes knelt , licking his fingers as if they were pet dogs . |
| 18 | He fluttered his fingers as if he 'd picked up something hot . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's O.K. , the firm pays for my taxi , ’ I babbled , holding it out to him between trembling fingers as if it were a dead insect . |
| 20 | I snapped my fingers as if I 'd forgotten something . |
| 21 | Beside him Vauban seemed to share the joke ; that extraordinary bastard leaned against the arm of the throne as if he was the king 's brother , openly stifling a yawn at Dacourt 's ponderous phrases . |
| 22 | When the castrato comes , I have to sing with him , for I have to teach him his whole part as if he were a child . |
| 23 | In the US , the protected class includes a person whose disability represents no handicap to employment but is treated by employers as if it did ; or whose disability is a handicap to employment but only as a result of the attitudes of others towards it ; or who has no disability at all but is erroneously treated by employers as disabled . |
| 24 | Although the majority of scientists tend to be a little coy about metaphysical matters in their professional publications , they are often less so outside when writing elsewhere , being prone to describe the framework of presuppositions about perception within which they conduct their investigations as if it were a discovery in its own right and that ‘ discovery ’ an explanation of perception . |
| 25 | Erm it was the way they sort of checked all the way round the car park as if they were looking to see which would be the best . |
| 26 | Esther says of Mrs Jellyby : her voice impressed my fancy as if it had a sort of spectacles on too Ch 8 and of Mr Turveydrop : |
| 27 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 28 | Culley pulled on the man 's hair as if it were a bell rope , backhanded him across the throat again , then clamped his hand over Schmidt 's mouth . |
| 29 | People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious . |
| 30 | They will also dance to an electric light bulb as if it were the sun . |