Example sentences of "[vb pp] as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 2 | The Snotlings will not move until they are able to move within 12″ of a friendly Orc or Goblin unit , and if charged by enemy troops they are automatically broken as if they had failed a panic or fear test . |
| 3 | She was deathly pale , her face almost swollen as if she had spent her life in tears . |
| 4 | I saw a man drinking avidly from a green scum-covered marsh , where lay , his black face downward in the water , a dead man lying on his stomach and swollen as if he had not stopped filling himself with water for days … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 7 | Ferdinand VII could believe that , as in Spain itself , the years 1808–14 could be treated as if they had not existed and the ancient order could be restored . |
| 8 | Where assets are finance by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 9 | Where assets are finance by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 10 | Where assets are financed by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright . |
| 11 | Figure 9–3(b) illustrates the special ease where A and B have identical utility functions or , alternatively , where it is accepted that A and B ought always to be treated as if they had identical utility functions . |
| 12 | Newly acquired words are treated as if they contrast with ones already known , and so serve to narrow down earlier over-extensions . |
| 13 | In this context penalties are implicitly treated as if they gave the exact decrease in objective function when a variable is branched on ( as opposed to just a bound ) . |
| 14 | Unlike the hostels for the homeless , places of last resort where inmates feel treated as if they have no rights , the refuge is a place of first resort , where women learn they have rights and how to exercise them . |
| 15 | Personal involvement was implicit in the tone and the procedures involved : the matters under consideration were treated as if they did matter ; epochs and makers of epochs were sharply characterized and subjected to urgent evaluation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The first is where it is set aside , in which case it is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 21 | In the group accounts , the subsidiary undertaking is treated as if it had always been a member of the group . |
| 22 | 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) ) . |
| 23 | Rather its provisions will deem the transfer to be treated as if it took place on an earlier specified date . |
| 24 | If he publishes untrue defamatory matter recklessly , without considering or caring whether it be true or not , he is in this , as in other branches of the law , treated as if he knew it to be false . |
| 25 | The emperor pronounced that a trust was due on these words as if , by prohibiting her from making a will , he had requested that she should make her brother heir : the wording is to be treated as if he had asked her to make over his estate . |
| 26 | Maybe this is why I am treated as if I 've polluted the town 's water . |
| 27 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 28 | He had killed one girl and now , because another was missing , they had come as if he had called them , as if they were his slaves . |
| 29 | Even the drainpipes , clinging half-heartedly to cracked walls and rusty gutters , looked as if they 'd had enough . |
| 30 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |