Example sentences of "[prep] if it do " in BNC.

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1 " You speak of the OTC market as if it does n't exist .
2 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 " .
3 I shrug and look away , as if it does n't matter .
4 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 .
5 He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no .
6 It is , however , almost as if it did not have one .
7 I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did .
8 My ears were burning , and my left shin throbbed as if it did not know I had stopped walking .
9 But you ca n't wipe out the past as if it did n't exist , Ruth thought .
10 A lackadaisical boy with spots admitted him , and asked what he wanted , as if it did not greatly matter .
11 As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding .
12 Your treating the question as if it did n't exist is no help to you , no one ever got away by playing the ostrich . ’
13 ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert .
14 And you come dancing up in your stinking rags as if it did n't matter !
15 The flesh of his hands appeared loose , as if it did n't fit his bones .
16 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 .
17 But nicely , as if it did n't matter . ’
18 Another view of some civil law courts is that neither set of conditions can apply to the contract ( since the parties manifestly wanted the contract to exist , acted as if it did , but could not agree as to which of their sets of standard conditions should apply to it ) .
19 The House of Lords held that when determining the nature of the source of the income arising to the trust one looked through the trust treating the trust for all practical purposes as if it did not exist .
20 ‘ Oh , really ? ’ she uttered smugly as if it did n't matter at all .
21 What would love be for if it did n't solve everything ?
22 Sergeant Joe 'll see yer sprain do n't get worse , 'e 'll get the doctor in if it does .
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