Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather its provisions will deem the transfer to be treated as if it took place on an earlier specified date . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This fact is used as if it constituted evidence against the theories that those chemists are trying to test . |
| 4 | And so warm , if felt as if it had substance . |
| 5 | The letter was waiting , lying in her pocket in a demanding way as if it had control of her . |
| 6 | Then it would presumably spot some potential prey and come to a standstill in mid-air as if it had brakes . |
| 7 | ‘ This is because ’ , Emil said , as if it clinched matters , which it did , ‘ Angus and his company have designed le menu and provided the food . ’ |
| 8 | Fitzormonde stepped away and the bear went back to its meal , shuffling its food into a dirty untidy pile as if it suspected Fitzormonde would like to take it away . |
| 9 | She parked , suddenly chill , picked up her bag as if it held eggshells . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It made Bella shriek and wave her arms about and it set Joe drumming his fingers on the table with that quiet disapproval that was worse than anything Bella could do . |
| 12 | This Act was important in that it eased restrictions in the field of public service transport , but critics felt that it would weaken the protection necessary for essentially unprofitable bus routes , mainly those in rural areas . |
| 13 | The approach used by Sheffield was particularly helpful , in that it established credibility for partnership at the highest level , with a supportive framework for development . |
| 14 | The result was seen as crucial in that it provided Sandiford with a personal mandate to govern . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman 's question was interesting in that it linked county hall and Battersea power station , making it clear that the Labour party 's plans for a reborn Greater London council are not the reassuring slim-line version that Labour spokesmen have been peddling . |
| 16 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 17 | Thus power in modern capitalism might be more fractionated and pluralist than in the past — it might also be based on non-class political divisions — but in practice the use that was made of the state and its scope of manoeuvre would be conditional on whether it threatened capitalism as a system . |