Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] if 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 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 7 | You make the pillowcase look as if it 's been washed with Brand X … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She strutted around in the snow as if it belonged to her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She could n't resist embroidering the description , seeing it all in her mind as if it had really happened . |
| 12 | Seventy-five years later , whenever I feel the sun on my face , it springs as fresh in my mind as if it occurred yesterday . |
| 13 | He blinked at the light as if it hurt him . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ; … |
| 17 | Of Condition In If it rains today I sha n't go shopping the clause if it rains today qualifies sha n't go . |
| 18 | She was staring at the holiday roster as if it contained the meaning of life . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | His foot went through the ice as if it had been paper . |
| 21 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 22 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 23 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 24 | He said it was to prevent the priest being mixed up , it was an opportunity to a new priest to come in and sort of if it had become he could establish groups . |
| 25 | She screwed up her face at the name as if it left a nasty taste in her mouth , adding : ‘ Ca n't abide that man . |
| 26 | She walked towards the restaurant car-a long-legged girl with burnished hair and haunted grey eyes who gripped her school satchel as if it contained her life . |
| 27 | It was necessary in 1859 to write about the process of evolution as if it produced the best of all possible worlds , a substitute for the finger of the Almighty at work . |
| 28 | There was a table beside it and a pipe lay on top as if it had been left just for a moment . |
| 29 | The non-lexical procedure works by applying rules specifying how a particular letter or letter group is to be pronounced ( and so can not be used for reading exception words aloud correctly , since such words disobey the rules : if you apply the rules to read an exception word aloud , you will produce an incorrect pronunciation , such as reading pint as if it rhymed with mint , hint , lint , etc . ) . |
| 30 | It would seem that everything between them has been ruined — but no , they decide to treat the day as if it had never been ; and when he has gone Emily picks up her goose-quill pen and again writes ‘ Dear Edmund ’ . |