Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " 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 | Almost all her errors here were regularisations : for example , she read have as if it rhymed with ‘ cave ’ , lose as if it rhymed with ‘ hose ’ , own as if it rhymed with ‘ down ’ , and steak as if it rhymed with ‘ beak ’ . |
| 3 | This type of noise is often from a diff and travels down the tubular propshaft to sound as if it comes from the gearbox and gets louder as the roadspeed increases . |
| 4 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The position of the litigant who wrongly brings a case under Order 53 is different because Ord. 53 r. 9(5) may allow the case to continue as if it had been started by ordinary writ procedure . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The first is where it is set aside , in which case it is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 13 | In the group accounts , the subsidiary undertaking is treated as if it had always been a member of the group . |
| 14 | An action purporting to have been commenced against a person who is dead at its commencement is treated as if it had been commenced against his estate , whether or not a grant of representation had been issued at its commencement ( Ord 5 , r 8(3) ) . |
| 15 | Rather its provisions will deem the transfer to be treated as if it took place on an earlier specified date . |
| 16 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 17 | Our experience of electronic technology prepares us to accept the idea that unconscious machinery can behave as if it understands complex mathematical ideas . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 20 | The window looked as if it belonged to a toilet . |
| 21 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 22 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 23 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 24 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 25 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 26 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 27 | The Dome itself , designed by Ralph Tubbs , looked as if it had descended from Mars . |
| 28 | The miniature stainless-steel kitchenette looked as if it had never been cooked in . |
| 29 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 30 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |