Example sentences of "be [prep] if [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most physical scientists are unable to imagine what their subject would be like if there were no elements and no fundamental particles . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's as if there are two markets : the performance that the second liners offer has no relationship with blue chips , ’ one market maker said . |
| 3 | Otherwise it 's as if there 's a monster on the mountain , no , as if some dark being haunts us both . |
| 4 | It 's as if there 's nothing new . |
| 5 | It 's as if there 's a kind of screen before my eyes . |
| 6 | And now , now it 's as if there 's a spiral stairway built out of pure bloody fear . |
| 7 | It is as if there is an element of delayed action with centesimals and we have no means of knowing what the final extent of reaction will be without waiting . |
| 8 | It is as if there existed a right to free speech , but that , before exercising it , one must submit to someone with a practically unchallengeable power of censorship a copy of one 's proposed speech for approval . |
| 9 | It is as if there were a built-in timetable as to when somites are formed . |
| 10 | And she like goes up to him quite freely and just kisses him on the lips , you know okay fair enough people have friendships like that but it 's not a kind of kiss on the cheek it is as if there 's something in it , you know , as if always she 's rubbing it into him . |
| 11 | I knew that he would not understand what I was going to say but it was as if there was an invisible person in the carriage before whom I had to justify myself . |
| 12 | It was as if there were no place where he quite belonged . |
| 13 | For seven years they 'd lived apart — Adam in Wickrithe with Gran , herself in Coniston with Aunt Sarah and Uncle Nick — but now that she was back in Wickrithe , helping Gran with her bed-and-breakfast business for the summer , it was as if there 'd been no break . |
| 14 | But it was as if there was a halter on his tongue . |
| 15 | They could not have told when the music tightened its hold and began its pull , but to Taliesin , afterwards , it was as if there was a moment when he knew that he was able to resist , and then another moment when he had surrendered completely . |
| 16 | It was as if there was something out there — or perhaps several somethings — struggling to break free of a force that had held them for a very long time . |
| 17 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 18 | It was as if there was a force field there . |
| 19 | Counsel urged that , following Walsh v Lonsdale , the situation was as if there were a legal lease . |
| 20 | The room was dark but it was as if there was something fluttering in it . |