Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the child is never born alive , things will remain as if it had never existed . |
| 2 | Our experience of electronic technology prepares us to accept the idea that unconscious machinery can behave as if it understands complex mathematical ideas . |
| 3 | And reciprocally , if memory formation requires the synthesis of proteins for the construction of synapses , then if one could stop the proteins from being synthesized around the time of learning then the memory should not be formed ; an animal trained on a task and prevented from synthesizing proteins should behave as if it has no memory for the task — is amnesic — when it is subsequently asked to perform it . |
| 4 | It is part of their religion , a religion I do not scoff at as it holds many elements which match our own even though it lacks the truth of ours . |
| 5 | He removed the stereo from his brother 's car , to make it look as if it had been stolen , before pushing it into a water-filled quarry . |
| 6 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 7 | The window did n't look as if it had been cleaned on the outside in years , and there were splashes of pigeon droppings on the sill . |
| 8 | And I remember the day it went from Extended Titling to three three four and it was just three three four , it did n't look as if it had ever been intended to set these lines . |
| 9 | ‘ Then if there 's time she wants a ‘ Guess the Weight ’ cake making as well — I 've got to make it look as if it weighs five pounds when it really weighs ten . ’ |
| 10 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 11 | well said it does n't look as if it 's been painted once since it was built ! |
| 12 | well he 's going through it and he said well it looks alright to me and I say well it does n't look as if it 's connected , any way I won , I could see why then it did n't look connected |
| 13 | Painful reform will look as if it has been wasted , firms will go bust , unemployment will rise , people will demand populist cure-alls . |
| 14 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 15 | Part of the problem is the HYPO , a fine orchestra which just does not sound as if it has lived with the piece in the way that the Gewandhaus Orchestra have ever since they gave the world première under Nikisch on December 30th 1884 . |
| 16 | I mean you have the idea , you want to expand advertising , which means you 've got to spend more money and you said it was never given the go ahead , who at the end of the day would decide about whether it had the go ahead or not ? |
| 17 | Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR . |
| 18 | Where an instrument transfers property in contemplation of the sale of the property at a later date , its treatment will depend on whether it falls within the terms of s 90 , FA 1963 . |
| 19 | But whether , say , used office paper has an economic value may depend on whether it has been collected and sorted . |
| 20 | About one quarter of Oxfordshire teachers are unsure as to whether their review and report had led directly to any change at all and with regard to whether it had improved teaching methods , over a third were unsure . |
| 21 | He 'd wanted to drive until anything he remembered would seem as if it had happened to someone else . |
| 22 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 23 | I did think I might read them some day , when I could bear to and it did n't feel quite so much like prying . ’ |