Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] it [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 2 | Only a minute or two earlier you were saying things like : ‘ It 's just a sort of a , a sort of a , a , a , a question of as it were sort of behaving sort of , well , for want of a better word , decently , sort of thing . ’ |
| 3 | To the immune systems of the animals that it may infect , the resultant mutant virus will look as if it is rabies and so will trigger antibodies and generally stimulate immunity against the disease . |
| 4 | I go back to thinking that the best way of changing the environment of the colleges would be to try and erm I mean talking again as if it 's boys perpetrating it all the time erm boys will stop doing it if women respond differently . |
| 5 | I think that 's , I mean I think that 's why the , the two interesting ends of the U K press are the tabloid end , because it looks , it looks as if it 's sort of forged in the heat of hot metal and steaminess and erm the top end and things like the Express and The Mail seem to be entirely flabby in the middle . |
| 6 | The reason why ( 6 ) is perceived as if it was assignment is that the indefinitizing effect of the determiner means that the hearer is granted no more about the entity in post-copular position than : ( a ) The properties denoted by the noun used ; ( b ) The fact that it is an entity ; but the latter fact has already been given by the subject noun phrase ; hence the effect , with such a determiner , amounts to the same thing , in practice ( but not in terms of intensional pattern ) , as simple assignment . |
| 7 | The whole scene to my informant was as clear as a bell , but on reflection it would seem as if it was part of an earlier railway system . |
| 8 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 9 | His dark blue blazer looked as if it was brand new , as did the white shirt with a very faint grey stripe and the steel blue tie . |
| 10 | Then they were turning into Mahogany Drive and something lurched inside him , as if it was love he was meeting , not death . |
| 11 | and with as if it was chicken with erm parsley thyme stuffing |
| 12 | as if it was penance . |
| 13 | He felt more uneasy about this than about borrowing cars , but considered that the reason he wanted the money for was worthy : not as if it was coke or ciggies or similar self-indulgence . |
| 14 | ‘ We say he took her life and then made it look as if it was suicide . ’ |
| 15 | He swirled the beer in his glass , staring at it as if it was tea and he was reading the leaves . |
| 16 | 8 When preceded by an interrogative pronoun ( I do n't know what to do ) or adverb ( Tell me where to go ) , or by a conjunction ( He looked at the clock , as if it was time to go ) , an infinitive with to is often equivalent to a dependent clause : What to do ; What am I to do ? |
| 17 | The Inland Revenue treats a scrip dividend as if it was cash income . |
| 18 | He scooped a handful of marble out of a bannister as if it were plasticine , and briefly enjoyed the traces of the many fingers that had brushed over this patch of cold stone down the years . |
| 19 | as if it were January instead of August . |
| 20 | She had thrown on an old dress and not much else , and she played with the frying-pan as if it were Pancake Day . |
| 21 | Where a capital sum ( as defined ) is paid directly or indirectly in any relevant year of assessment by the trustees of a settlement to the settlor then , to the extent that there is an amount of income available ( as defined ) in the settlement , the settlor can be taxed on that capital sum as if it were income . |
| 22 | Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration , and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company 's high-speed Memory Channel , which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors , and Infinity File System , which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database . |
| 23 | Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration , and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company 's high-speed Memory Channel , which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors , and Infinity File System , which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database . |
| 24 | The word was spoken as if it were part of a mystery too arcane to be rapidly solved . |
| 25 | ‘ But it 's not right , ’ said Lydia Horton , looking around the dreary little back-street surgery in the least attractive part of Oswaldston as if it were part of her grievance . |
| 26 | Gav , you speak of the Batts situation as if it were work : - ) |
| 27 | Prepared small group work can similarly be viewed in context as if it were video material , or plays acted out — showing , for example , the bravest thing they have ever done . |
| 28 | This is nothing compared with the spectacular catalogue of gargoyles and grotesques found elsewhere : South American lemurs ; crocodile-toothed , bulging-eyed monsters ; tormented faces emitting vegetation as if it were ectoplasm ; demons gulping down children , baboons , and even snarling severed heads . |
| 29 | He cinched his towel around his hips , then bent and scooped up the jewellery as if it were junk . |
| 30 | Their sleep disturbed , their murmured resentment rises into a wind , stirring up the packed clay of the wasteground as if it were desert sand . |