Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the child is never born alive , things will remain as if it had never existed . |
| 2 | Another , eight months before the murder , reads : ‘ I wish Alison could just disappear as if she never existed ’ . |
| 3 | Anyone who did n't know him would turn up their nose , looking down on him , but Clary would only laugh as if he enjoyed it . |
| 4 | Well , she did behave as if nothing was out of the ordinary , and I began to suspect that Oliver was a little displeased . |
| 5 | That with one word from him she would behave as if nothing had happened ? |
| 6 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 7 | ‘ At the party , you must behave as if you like me . ’ |
| 8 | At low levels of excitation this structure , outlined in Fig. 1 , will obviously behave as if it were an inefficient transformer . |
| 9 | And reciprocally , if memory formation requires the synthesis of proteins for the construction of synapses , then if one could stop the proteins from being synthesized around the time of learning then the memory should not be formed ; an animal trained on a task and prevented from synthesizing proteins should behave as if it has no memory for the task — is amnesic — when it is subsequently asked to perform it . |
| 10 | Our experience of electronic technology prepares us to accept the idea that unconscious machinery can behave as if it understands complex mathematical ideas . |
| 11 | King 's Jester used to be a very spooky horse and would shy at the same jump , stacked in the corner of the school , every single day and if anything was moved to a different position , he would behave as if it were about to leap out and get him . |
| 12 | Sometimes her caprices made him behave as if he was . |
| 13 | First , we all have to live and act as if we were sure and as if we had reliable knowledge . |
| 14 | Gandhi 's injunction is that a married couple should act as if they are unmarried , and treat each other as brother and sister . |
| 15 | Do signers have a clear idea of the separateness of different sign languages , or do they feel and act as if they are all basically the same thing ? |
| 16 | According to IBM , DFS — which enables an assortment of files on a network to look and act as if they were local — is up and running in the labs and is scheduled for beta test by the end of the first quarter . |
| 17 | But in fact those they sought to protect often did not act as if they were passive . |
| 18 | There are important questions in relation to housing policy concerning the extent to which a free market can operate and the extent to which public housing authorities should act as if they were private business concerns . |
| 19 | Compton proposed that the quantum of light could act as if it were a particle , and he christened this the photon . |
| 20 | Nanny is definitely a ‘ Lower Breed ’ , but she does n't act as if she knows it . |
| 21 | Call a child stupid often enough , and she will act as if she were stupid , which almost amounts to becoming stupid . |
| 22 | I ca n't bring myself to say she does n't care about her father , but she does n't act as if she cared for him very much . " |
| 23 | Only Lori could act as if she were meeting a bosom friend for tea and a chat , when the reality was something light-years removed . |
| 24 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 25 | In his experiment , Gould painted over the ocelli ( small light-sensitive organs ) of some of the members of a hive , which would then dance as if it were dark , but otherwise behave normally . |
| 26 | This made the dancers appear as if they were a moving frieze . |
| 27 | Like SuperCalc these are n't pictorial in content , but at least the shadowed button look makes them appear as if you should click then with a mouse — which is more than can be said for either of the other two packages . |
| 28 | To Sabine , used to Aunt Ruth 's dab of power and smudge of lipstick , the Baronne 's maquillage made her appear as if she was wearing an exquisite but remote mask , spoiled only by the small piece of sticking plaster on her forehead . |
| 29 | It does appear as if there is an incomplete text of the play surviving : we could sketch in the rest from the analogue in Dame Sirith and the continental analogues reached through that text , but what we have here is sufficiently individual to counsel caution in assuming we know what is missing . |
| 30 | ‘ It made me feel as if everything was all right with the world . |