Example sentences of "as [conj] [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |
| 2 | Its smartly dressed citizens go about their business as if nothing was happening . |
| 3 | I filled it up and I was walking out the door as if nothing was happening and got arrested . |
| 4 | It begins to look as if what is exhausting is not the amount of work per se , but the lack of clear values to underpin it and the consequent lack of regular enjoyment and true satisfaction that arise from it . |
| 5 | Ali poses a question , his eyes closed , his lips parting as if her were sliding open manhole covers . |
| 6 | It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to . |
| 7 | It 's bound to get out and then it will look as if we 're helping the Khedive to cover up . |
| 8 | And in fact it is as if we 're having , it is if George is actually having two conversations at the same time . |
| 9 | So it 's not as if we 're having breathing and did n't know what to do ! were n't it ? |
| 10 | So , it is n't as if we 're saying , erm maths has always been taught quite well but we can do it better . |
| 11 | It 's as if we 're rehearsing it : what 's my next line ? |
| 12 | as if we 're asking you to do our work . |
| 13 | ‘ Mrs. Olinton 's rung the fire-brigade , but , thanks to you , young lady , it does n't look as if we 're going to need it . |
| 14 | ‘ Looks as if we 're going to have a bull session , Dad . ’ |
| 15 | It looks as if we 're going to have a hell of a job to identify him . |
| 16 | We budgeted a thousand pounds , it looks as if we 're going to have to spend more on urgent work . |
| 17 | ‘ Looks as if we 're going to get some fog now . |
| 18 | but everything else we can sort , getting there , it 's not as if we 're gon na need a bloody fire is it Jane ? |
| 19 | Sounds as if we 're talking about more than one teacher . |
| 20 | It 's as if we are gabbling the end of a play we are in . |
| 21 | A sort of heat haze , as opposed to the intense burning sensation of the stripe paintings , emerges as if we are looking through a veil or over a great distance at flat lands . |
| 22 | It is almost as if we are dealing with quite another God . |
| 23 | It 's as if we are taking part not in real life but in a piece of reportage on the British constitutional system ’ ( 22 October 1964 ) . |
| 24 | But the union just look on us as if we are employed by them . |
| 25 | It sounds as if we are doing little more than making the best of a bad job . |
| 26 | Mr Patten said later : ‘ The important thing as far as I am concerned is that it looks as if we are going to have a Conservative government . |
| 27 | B : ‘ I am worried about my job because it looks as if we are going to be privatised soon and there may be redundancies . |
| 28 | ‘ It certainly looks as if we are going to be quite a bit worse off next year , ’ he said . |
| 29 | And then Grainne said , ‘ It feels as if we are going down into some terrible prison , ’ and Raynor said , ‘ Yes , it is a prison . |
| 30 | ‘ In light of the current recapitalisation , does it really look as if we are preparing to sell the company now ? ’ |