Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want a new car , then cherish your beaten-up old Ford as if it were a gleaming red convertible . |
| 2 | Between calls she murmured inaudibly to her companion and stroked her platinum-blonde hair-do as if it were an ailing pet . |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ Reynolds said , and he shifted his grip on the brown paper as if it were getting hot in his hands . |
| 4 | I had fixed my mind on that image of that ruined theatre as if it held the clue to my whole identity . |
| 5 | Dorothy began the Alfoxden Journal with an entry which one editor , H. Eigerman , has printed in free verse as if it were an Imagist poem : |
| 6 | The letter was waiting , lying in her pocket in a demanding way as if it had control of her . |
| 7 | Her hand recoiled from the wooden panel as if it were red-hot , and she backed silently away . |
| 8 | We sometimes use the term ‘ equity ’ , or words corresponding to it , in popular language as if it was something altogether outside law . |
| 9 | Larsen , in fact , represents the alienated hero who seeks to come to terms with an absurd world by entering into the game , by playing out a meaningless life as if it were meaningful . |
| 10 | Treating some created thing as if it were God . |
| 11 | The vendor will then be in a similar position as if it were still the original tenant under the lease and it will remain liable if an assignee defaults unless the landlord releases to vendor in the licence to assign . |
| 12 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |
| 13 | Peter dismissed what was a thriving little business as if it were a run-down whelk stall . |
| 14 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By 1981 the artist was using photographic imagery as if it was purely graphic material , as if the literal meanings had been dissolved in a solution of ideas and metaphors — except that the half-tone dots from newsprint were emphatically part of the image . |
| 17 | But assisting her investigations into a perfectly natural death as if it were murder was little short of lunacy . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the Stock Market continued to value the diversified BAT as if it were a ( lowly-rated ) tobacco stock , despite its expensive acquisitions in other fields . |
| 19 | D'Arquebus snatched one shroud of black silk as if it was his birthright . |
| 20 | It is always wise to examine a flower very carefully before placing it in the blotting paper as if it contains any tiny insects they will think they are being provided with a picnic lunch and eat their way through the contents of your press ! |
| 21 | In his important book The concept of mind ( 1949 ) Ryle exploded the dogma by successfully demonstrating that , as used in the Cartesian ‘ myth ’ , the term represents the facts of mental life as if it belonged to one logical type or category , when it actually belongs to another . |
| 22 | ‘ Look at that , ’ he said , and crouched and peered , drawing her in , ‘ a clock , how strange , ’ strange because it was an antique clock with inlaid wood and round brass knobs for legs , it should have been softly ticking away on someone wealthy 's mantelpiece , a china shepherdess on either side , a marble fireplace below , and yet here it was , lying under a bush , and tilted at a curious angle as if it was drunk , and not ticking at all . |
| 23 | The feeling almost wiped out that terrible year as if it had n't happened at all . |
| 24 | It was as if the Cornell students were capable of ignoring surface structure , and could refer to the passage 's deep structure as if it were complete . |
| 25 | It is no longer fashionable to discuss the Industrial Revolution as if it were an event which happened between 1760 and 1840 . |
| 26 | So he 'd looked straight through her cool façade as if it were glass . |
| 27 | I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully . |
| 28 | They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult . |
| 29 | When the adult responds to a particular behaviour as if it were socially significant , the infant is provided with a demonstration of the communicative potential of her own actions . |
| 30 | It is odd — one of the anomalies of science — that it is possible to look at a single entity as if it were either one thing or another , apparently quite different thing . |