Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] if a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hut windows were misted as if a concerted bluster of hot air had steamed them . |
| 2 | After that , the pace of your life will begin to slow down and although confusion will reign supreme around the 26th , it looks as if a long-awaited breakthrough will materialise . |
| 3 | The initiative was not continued , but it now looks as if a new partner has been found in the shape of the Venice Soprintendenza . |
| 4 | It looks as if a false belief could never be indefeasibly justified since there would always be some truth ( even if only the negation of the false belief ) whose addition would destroy the justification . |
| 5 | The odd thing was that , after he had entered the paint shop , he had felt as if a heavy wave of sadness had suddenly been lifted from out of him . |
| 6 | Holders of this theory would suggest that syphilis was already established in Europe in pre-Columbian days and it was the increase in knowledge and the travel resulting from the Renaissance that made it appear as if a new disease had been introduced . |
| 7 | He felt his skin tingle , he felt the fine hair all along his spine react as if a low current had been run through him . |
| 8 | Or rather , I could feel the old cautious Bodenland inside , but it seemed as if a new man , fitted for decision and adventure , had taken control of me . |
| 9 | Fergus gave a truly terrible cry , and for a moment it seemed as if a sudden coldness had descended . |
| 10 | It began to look as if a wee riot might be in order . |
| 11 | Ah but it 's silly because the thing is , th the they 're , well the , th those , th those two rooms look as if a bloody tip has hit it ! |
| 12 | ‘ You look as if a good meal would n't come amiss . ’ |
| 13 | Mature evergreen trees , such as Ilex crenata , have been trained and clipped into formal shapes which look as if a green cloud is floating on each branch . |
| 14 | In their futile endeavour Joseph Chamberlain and his contemporaries were only re-enacting in modern dress the plot of the mideighteenth-century drama , by proceeding as if a common will and desire to be subordinate existed when it did not . |
| 15 | And yet now that he has passed away I feel as if a close friend has been lost . |
| 16 | The noise from below battered her eardrums until it felt as if a high-speed train was roaring through her head . |
| 17 | Driving back to Armscott Manor , Virginia felt as if a small bomb had been detonated in her life . |
| 18 | Her heart began to thud erratically , and she felt as if a great weight was pressing down on her making it difficult to breathe . |
| 19 | When they reached the area where the shepherds had seen Horatia , Timothy felt as if a clammy hand had reached out and touched his spine . |
| 20 | As they stood on either side of the door looking at one another she felt as if a magic elixir was being created , ready to cure a disease . |
| 21 | I felt as if a huge gap had appeared in my existence , because one who had always been there was there no longer , and I should never see him again . |
| 22 | My stomach felt as if a huge wheel lurched and turned inside it every time she moved . |
| 23 | I felt as if a little part of you was here with me . |
| 24 | It looked as if a four-way war was about to break out . |
| 25 | After the eruption , it was found that almost the whole of one side of the cone had disappeared , and it looked as if a giant bite had been taken out of it . |
| 26 | Also , Bourdieu 's presuppositions make it seem as if a rational way forward is more or less ruled out in the political field . |