Example sentences of "this [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , an adult may focus on a non-social action , such as tongue-poking or arm-waving , and interpret this as if it were , in fact , performed as an expression of some kind of social intention . |
| 2 | He said this as if it were obvious , as if he were explaining something self-evident to a small child . |
| 3 | He knew that Grainne was gentle and strong and sensitive ; he knew this as if it was something he had been born knowing ; even so , he found himself remembering that the Wolfline were said to have old enchantments in their blood , and that the old enchantments were tinged with the dark sinister magic of the first sorcerers , and that the descendants of those long-ago Wolfkings could still spin their own bewitchments and weave their own spells . |
| 4 | Yet , as the Cambridge evacuation survey commented wryly , hosts presented this as if it were ‘ an entirely unknown phenomenon in the past , and that evacuation produced a Niagara all over English and Scottish country beds ’ . |
| 5 | The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence . |
| 6 | As Haynes points out , the planning process reflected this in that it ‘ usually took the form of a series of isolated , departmental exercises which lacked any common framework of reference apart from the central control of financial input ’ ( Haynes , 1980 , p. 82 ) . |
| 7 | Sales promotion is typical of this in that it need not cost a lot of money and its success can be clearly evaluated in terms of turnover and profit objectives . ’ |