Example sentences of "[verb] as if [pron] [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 | I do n't want to sound as if I have n't got sympathy with people 'cause I know it 's bloody hard , but I know a lot of blacks who use it [ blackness ] as an excuse and we 've got to be careful that we do n't use it like that . |
| 4 | One very quick point , sorry erm I do n't want to sound as if I feel I can but er I welcome your comment at the beginning the condition be be left out on what 's going on because I thought this was actually the key function of this committee and I mean I see these are being decision has been taken . |
| 5 | Do n't get me wrong , I like flashy bass playing and it would be wrong for me to sound as if I did n't approve ; it 's just that these kind of situations are always a trade-off . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I wondered if she really felt strongly about this or if it was just a habit to sound as if she did . |
| 8 | This involves stimulating a female cat that is on heat with a glass rod , so that her body is fooled into reacting as if she has been mated by a tom-cat . |
| 9 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Snotlings will not move until they are able to move within 12″ of a friendly Orc or Goblin unit , and if charged by enemy troops they are automatically broken as if they had failed a panic or fear test . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was deathly pale , her face almost swollen as if she had spent her life in tears . |
| 15 | I saw a man drinking avidly from a green scum-covered marsh , where lay , his black face downward in the water , a dead man lying on his stomach and swollen as if he had not stopped filling himself with water for days … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 18 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 19 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 20 | Iris glowed as if she had received a personal compliment . |
| 21 | Ferdinand VII could believe that , as in Spain itself , the years 1808–14 could be treated as if they had not existed and the ancient order could be restored . |
| 22 | Where assets are finance by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 23 | Where assets are finance by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 24 | Where assets are financed by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 25 | Figure 9–3(b) illustrates the special ease where A and B have identical utility functions or , alternatively , where it is accepted that A and B ought always to be treated as if they had identical utility functions . |
| 26 | Newly acquired words are treated as if they contrast with ones already known , and so serve to narrow down earlier over-extensions . |
| 27 | In this context penalties are implicitly treated as if they gave the exact decrease in objective function when a variable is branched on ( as opposed to just a bound ) . |
| 28 | Unlike the hostels for the homeless , places of last resort where inmates feel treated as if they have no rights , the refuge is a place of first resort , where women learn they have rights and how to exercise them . |
| 29 | Personal involvement was implicit in the tone and the procedures involved : the matters under consideration were treated as if they did matter ; epochs and makers of epochs were sharply characterized and subjected to urgent evaluation . |
| 30 | 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 . |