Example sentences of "as if they [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manuel Caballeros took immense care with his fifteen-foot putt , stalking the line in both directions , conferring with his caddie , who had taken the pin out , staring at distant parts of the green as if they might unexpectedly become pregnant . |
| 2 | He states these facts slowly and carefully , as if they might somehow have slipped her mind . |
| 3 | They looked , from a distance , as if they might well be the remains of her first attempt at Islamic dress . |
| 4 | Mortgage rates increased dramatically and seemed as if they would never fall . |
| 5 | The puppets clung together as if they would never part . |
| 6 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 7 | It was as if they should simply fade away when they got old like the soldiers they represented on stage . |
| 8 | I might remember not to treat people as if they could only act in one way . |
| 9 | They clung to one another as if they could never be parted again . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if we ignore the ego and its functions in man and concentrate on his instincts as if they could totally account for his behaviour as they do in animals who lack an ego , we should fall into the alternative trap of failing to account for his culture at all except as the outcome of doubtful instinctual behaviour of an altruistic or civilized kind . |
| 11 | In flight , its little wings look as if they can barely hold it in the air . |
| 12 | At the moment , Fergie 's high-flyers look as if they can only give away the title if it was not for carelessness against Newcastle they would still have a 100% record . |
| 13 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 14 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |