Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | just behave normal as if it , as if you do n't know it 's there . |
| 2 | Men spoke of that as if it was a heroic thing , but it was Thorkel Fóstri , he found , who had done the actual killing , and his father would n't speak about it at all . |
| 3 | ‘ So often people criticise others for wanting to do things which are a little bit different as if it 's wrong not to do things like everyone else does . |
| 4 | And another thing , the torch goes dim as if it 's losing its power . |
| 5 | They all s they stand there at the door going lighter as if it matters they have to get off the train with a cigarette in their mouth or they 're uncool , some shit like this |
| 6 | We may readily show that the matrix X is non-singular. for if it is not , let us first suppose it to be simply degenerate . |
| 7 | For example , an adult may focus on a non-social action , such as tongue-poking or arm-waving , and interpret this as if it were , in fact , performed as an expression of some kind of social intention . |
| 8 | He said this as if it were obvious , as if he were explaining something self-evident to a small child . |
| 9 | He knew that Grainne was gentle and strong and sensitive ; he knew this as if it was something he had been born knowing ; even so , he found himself remembering that the Wolfline were said to have old enchantments in their blood , and that the old enchantments were tinged with the dark sinister magic of the first sorcerers , and that the descendants of those long-ago Wolfkings could still spin their own bewitchments and weave their own spells . |
| 10 | Yet , as the Cambridge evacuation survey commented wryly , hosts presented this as if it were ‘ an entirely unknown phenomenon in the past , and that evacuation produced a Niagara all over English and Scottish country beds ’ . |
| 11 | The stern yet mellow voice was unmistakeable , as bright and fresh as if it was 1979 when I was in my school uniform eating beans on toast , stretched out in front of the telly … and boy , did he speak quickly |
| 12 | The entire text and formatting of one document can be inserted into another as if it were a block of text being inserted from elsewhere in the same document ( see Task 12 ) . |
| 13 | We see it in its most obvious form in the interactions between species when one species manages to control the behaviour of another as if it were a puppet . |
| 14 | Well if we put the money into sets , lots of ten and the people into lots of ten we could cancel those tens out and it would just come down to five over fifteen . |
| 15 | If a vehicle is abandoned in a car park the University reserves the right to have the vehicle removed and/or disposed of as it sees fit . |
| 16 | Well I think what you 've got to be careful of and it 's always a difficulty when you 're looking at er benefits and dis-benefits of major road schemes , you 'll see that we go into a tremendous amount of or collect a tremendous amount of information about the different impacts . |
| 17 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 18 | The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence . |
| 19 | As Haynes points out , the planning process reflected this in that it ‘ usually took the form of a series of isolated , departmental exercises which lacked any common framework of reference apart from the central control of financial input ’ ( Haynes , 1980 , p. 82 ) . |
| 20 | Sales promotion is typical of this in that it need not cost a lot of money and its success can be clearly evaluated in terms of turnover and profit objectives . ’ |
| 21 | Stalnaker , 1975 ) Or , to interpret the idea in a way less ontologically extravagant , a way which does not seem to commit us to a plurality of somehow existing worlds , what the conditional means is this : if our actual world were different in that it were raining , and differences overall were in a sense the smallest possible , the balcony would be wet . |
| 22 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
| 23 | The situation with schistosome sex determination is quite different in that it is the female that is heterogametic ( ZW as opposed to the male ZZ ) and the primers used amplify a highly reiterated set of tandem repeats on the W chromosome ( 4 ) . |
| 24 | The 486DX is a different in that it has a numeric coprocessor built into it and so does n't need one adding as a separate unit . |
| 25 | In some ways it is similar to second language acquisition , but it appears to be different in that it starts from the natively acquired dialect as a base . |
| 26 | A response that maintains wide spacing , as in territorial animals or solitary nomads , may be equally social in that it is an interaction between two or more individuals . |
| 27 | That certainly is a very hopeful suggestion which we 're most interested in because it does look as if the P L C will succeed and if it does then we shall have our full seven million pounds . |
| 28 | The last help screen might be considered superfluous in that it is simply a reminder that all entries have to be made in an appropriate manner . |
| 29 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 30 | On some occasions , however , contextual information might actually be unhelpful in that it might exclude the correct item . |