Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some energy from point Q is also detected by the sensor as if it had originated at P , due to scattering at S1 . |
| 2 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
| 3 | The park lay in sodden neglect , sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Esther says of Mrs Jellyby : her voice impressed my fancy as if it had a sort of spectacles on too Ch 8 and of Mr Turveydrop : |
| 6 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 7 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 8 | Therefore it appears that a photon of energy E = hv behaves in a gravitational field as if it possessed an inertial mass E/c 2 ! |
| 9 | Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask . |
| 10 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 11 | You make the pillowcase look as if it 's been washed with Brand X … |
| 12 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 13 | She strutted around in the snow as if it belonged to her . |
| 14 | And you come dancing up in your stinking rags as if it did n't matter ! |
| 15 | His dark hair was thinning on top , but he had bushy side whiskers as if it had all slipped downwards , and his chin was a dimpled mound seeming to support an ever-smiling mouth . |
| 16 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 17 | She could n't resist embroidering the description , seeing it all in her mind as if it had really happened . |
| 18 | Seventy-five years later , whenever I feel the sun on my face , it springs as fresh in my mind as if it occurred yesterday . |
| 19 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 20 | He blinked at the light as if it hurt him . |
| 21 | With a view toward facilitating the use of electronic bills of lading , the Law Commissions recommended that the Secretary of State be empowered to ‘ make provision by regulations for information given by means other than in writing to be of equivalent force and effect as if it had been given in writing . ’ |
| 22 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 23 | ‘ shall have effect as if it granted or provided for the grant of a tenancy for a term of 10 years , subject to a right exercisable either by the landlord or the tenant to determine the tenancy , if the war ends before the expiration of that term , by at least one month 's notice in writing given after the end of the war ; … |
| 24 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 25 | But , it has given no indication of whether it intends to acquire or dispose of any data processing activities . |
| 26 | Every research study needs to be assessed on the criterion of whether it measures up to its own stated objectives . |
| 27 | Of Condition In If it rains today I sha n't go shopping the clause if it rains today qualifies sha n't go . |
| 28 | She was staring at the holiday roster as if it contained the meaning of life . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | His foot went through the ice as if it had been paper . |