Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was disguised as if it were some form of regional assistance , whereas it was bailing out uneconomic , old industries which ought to have been modernised . |
| 2 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 3 | It does all that carbon will do about ten times over , can visually be checked for when it is fully loaded , and will NOT release the lot back into the water even when fully charged . |
| 4 | The fact is , however , that some of the behaviour of electromagnetic radiation is best explained as if it were a stream of photons ; and some of the properties are best explained as if it consisted of a series of waves . |
| 5 | The fact is , however , that some of the behaviour of electromagnetic radiation is best explained as if it were a stream of photons ; and some of the properties are best explained as if it consisted of a series of waves . |
| 6 | Each of the 30 rooms is arranged as if it were still in use — the Little Drawing Room was designed by Robert Adam with gilded mouldings and intricate wall paintings . |
| 7 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 8 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 9 | In the event of your death before the date of maturity your TESSA will be treated as if it had matured at the date of death and gross interest will be paid up to and including that date . |
| 10 | This gives no action to Titius , but the SC allows it to be treated as if it read fidei tuae committo ut Titio hereditatem restituas . |
| 11 | We have , therefore , treated as if it were an artificial variable . |
| 12 | On appeal by the Crown , it was found that the Lord Ordinary had failed to give proper weight to Taxes Management Act 1970 , in particular that interest on overdue tax was to be treated as if it were tax charged and due and payable under the assessment to which it related . |
| 13 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 14 | The base contains about nine Snotlings but is treated as if it were a single large monster with several wounds and attacks . |
| 15 | This means that a premium paid during a tax year is treated as if it had been paid during the previous tax year ; or the tax year before that , if there were no relevant earnings in the previous year . |
| 16 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 17 | The first is where it is set aside , in which case it is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 18 | They were particularly anxious to avoid having ‘ topic ’ , in discourse study , treated as if it were somehow expressible by a simple noun phrase , as often happens in the treatment of sentential topics . |
| 19 | For the UK this means that the run-down of many sectors of manufacturing is treated as if it is unconnected with the policies of successive UK governments , with the qualities of management and the character of British trade unionism . |
| 20 | It is not to be treated as if it were a statutory definition . |
| 21 | In other words , for this purpose , and for this purpose only , a minor was to be treated as if it were an adult . |
| 22 | In the group accounts , the subsidiary undertaking is treated as if it had always been a member of the group . |
| 23 | It remains the law that a trade union is not , and is not to be treated as if it were , a body corporate , but a much wider measure of tort liability is now imposed by the Employment Act 1982 . |
| 24 | Each £250 or part of £250 will be treated as if it were bringing in an income of £1 a week . |
| 25 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 26 | This is a penal measure and the courts must take care to see that this former expression is not treated as if it were the latter . ’ |
| 27 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 28 | In this case the relationship is treated as if it were a one-to-many relationship , but the records on the ‘ many side ’ are duplicated because each record can be related to several parents . |
| 29 | The prompt LIFESPAN Breakout will appear at the top left-hand edge of the screen and to all intents and purposes this can be treated as if it were the DCL $ prompt . |
| 30 | Rather its provisions will deem the transfer to be treated as if it took place on an earlier specified date . |