Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 5 | In the event of your death before the date of maturity your TESSA will be treated as if it had matured at the date of death and gross interest will be paid up to and including that date . |
| 6 | This means that a premium paid during a tax year is treated as if it had been paid during the previous tax year ; or the tax year before that , if there were no relevant earnings in the previous year . |
| 7 | The first is where it is set aside , in which case it is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 8 | In the group accounts , the subsidiary undertaking is treated as if it had always been a member of the group . |
| 9 | An action purporting to have been commenced against a person who is dead at its commencement is treated as if it had been commenced against his estate , whether or not a grant of representation had been issued at its commencement ( Ord 5 , r 8(3) ) . |
| 10 | Rather its provisions will deem the transfer to be treated as if it took place on an earlier specified date . |
| 11 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 12 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 13 | The window looked as if it belonged to a toilet . |
| 14 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 15 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 16 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 17 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 18 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 19 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 20 | The Dome itself , designed by Ralph Tubbs , looked as if it had descended from Mars . |
| 21 | The miniature stainless-steel kitchenette looked as if it had never been cooked in . |
| 22 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 23 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |
| 24 | The room was deserted and desolate : the arctic blue bubble of the drinking water machine looked as if it had turned to ice , two desk lights burned pointlessly above unoccupied desks and the rubbish bins were still brimming with polystyrene cups and waste paper . |
| 25 | The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers . |
| 26 | She was a strange , skinny woman always dressed in dark clothes , and her face looked as if it had never seen the sun . |
| 27 | The room looked as if it had been torn apart . |
| 28 | The open sewer in the high street looked as if it had never been cleaned and at times we squelched ankle deep in human excrement . |
| 29 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 30 | I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier . |