Example sentences of "[prep] if it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 2 | ‘ Otherwise it looks as if it belongs to me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Such luxurious hair , a face that looks as if it belongs to an angel … but of course , ’ he murmured , ‘ you kiss like an expert . ’ |
| 4 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 5 | " You speak of the OTC market as if it does n't exist . |
| 6 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 7 | I shrug and look away , as if it does n't matter . |
| 8 | And so far , with our results , it looks as if it does not seem to have a major impact on our patients , so we may be doing something that does n't er particularly help the patients , and this is very important since we spend a lot of time doing these sorts of er procedures in our patients . |
| 9 | ‘ Then if there 's time she wants a ‘ Guess the Weight ’ cake making as well — I 've got to make it look as if it weighs five pounds when it really weighs ten . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes they approach language as if it expresses power relations and subjectivity directly , and originates from the very autonomous , fixed subjects whose existence they are challenging . |
| 11 | ‘ Why do so many people use that word as if it represents something ugly ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes , it 's as if it takes a breathing space . ’ |
| 13 | By taxing or subsidizing goods that involve externalities , the government can induce the private sector to behave as if it takes account of the externality , thus eliminating the deadweight burden arising from the misallocation induced by the externality distortion . |
| 14 | Our experience of electronic technology prepares us to accept the idea that unconscious machinery can behave as if it understands complex mathematical ideas . |
| 15 | ‘ Damn fog ; it 's rolling in as if it means to isolate us beneath a blanket . ’ |
| 16 | as if it matters that much , she thought as she stared back at him . |
| 17 | And there 's no need to colour up like that , it is n't as if it matters . " |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | It is always wise to examine a flower very carefully before placing it in the blotting paper as if it contains any tiny insects they will think they are being provided with a picnic lunch and eat their way through the contents of your press ! |
| 20 | But it looks as if it looks as though she stands there and something just drops |
| 21 | This type of noise is often from a diff and travels down the tubular propshaft to sound as if it comes from the gearbox and gets louder as the roadspeed increases . |
| 22 | And not expecting everything to look as if it 's been lifted straight from the page of a glossy foodie magazine . ’ |
| 23 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
| 24 | ‘ It looks as if it 's been made out of a tree and it feels lovely . |
| 25 | It 's as if it 's always been . |
| 26 | Oh it sounds as if it 's got like a K on it |
| 27 | Look — ’ he held aloft his battered , ink-bespattered copy — ‘ this one looks as if it 's been in use since the Boer War . ’ |
| 28 | And , as this post here , with , whatever it is , it looks as if it 's got some paddings on the ground , maybe a , a boat sometimes gets moored up to it and that 's just to stop the boat er banging up agai maybe the tide comes in that far , I do n't know . |
| 29 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 30 | You make the pillowcase look as if it 's been washed with Brand X … |