Example sentences of "[be] [prep] if [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our island will be as if in a state of war ’ one senior official was quoted as saying yesterday . |
| 2 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 3 | It is as if between 1927 and 1934 a party unequivocally committed to a sectarian strategy on the political front nevertheless consciously chose to hedge its bets on the cultural front . |
| 4 | It is as if within the wider panorama particular topics become a focus of especial attention . |
| 5 | It is as if in looking at something , the poet discerns an eternal substance that is hidden behind the manifest sense impressions . |
| 6 | It is as if from their own experience of good parenting they know inside themselves what parenting is about . |
| 7 | It is as if by doing so a woman offers herself , ritually cleansed , to be entirely controlled by her husband . |
| 8 | It is as if by being able to make moral judgements people recognise , not simply an additional technical possibility , but something to which they wish to give ultimate significance . |
| 9 | It is as if by working in Weston Hall , Leapor came into contact with that family 's modest literary tradition . |
| 10 | It was as if in some government department in Washington , Damascus , Paris , Jerusalem , Rome or London , there were people who understood the true meaning of this military involvement and were trying to square the adventure with history . |
| 11 | It was as if in that short distance from the Upper East Side she had crossed a magic dividing line into another country . |
| 12 | It was as if by drinking from the cold spring they were hoping to appease some spirit of the place so that it would n't turn unfriendly to their studies ; but they could not settle as they tried to read and make notes . |
| 13 | It was as if by revealing a hint of softness to Nutty , knowing that she suspected him of acquiescing in order to save Firelight from the chop , a girlish affection betrayed , he then behaved more churlishly than ever to make up for it . |