Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pron] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the solid ( below the glass transition or in the crystalline state ) the " spaghetti " is somewhat less able to slide about than it is in the liquid state . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's as if we 're in the moon ? ’ |
| 3 | In the bar that evening we felt as if we were in the movie Top Gun as U.S. Navy pilots sang , ‘ You 've Lost That Lovin' Feeling ’ to us . |
| 4 | All the windows were shuttered as if we were in the depths of winter . |
| 5 | I felt as if we were in the presence of a ghoul , the living dead . |
| 6 | it sounds as if they 're in the back garden or something ! |
| 7 | It would seem many misunderstood the form and responded to the following points as if they were under the heading of organisation . |
| 8 | ‘ Logical ’ here means those records that are processed as if they were on the track . |
| 9 | His knees looked to Bernice as if they were on the verge of buckling . |
| 10 | We began our discussion of the policy-making process by considering the roles of parties and pressure groups as if they were on the outside looking in , so to speak . |
| 11 | Mr Hurd has talked about these articles as if they were about the imposition of old East European ‘ socialism ’ ( with Chancellor Kohl leading the way ? ) . |
| 12 | His harsh voice shouted at them as if they were at the top of the rigging , rather than a stone 's throw from his feet . |
| 13 | The two slaves moved jerkily , as if they were at the ends of strings . |
| 14 | But the amounts the Poles spent were dwarfed by the way the Nazis used state funds as if they were from the Nazi Party cash box . |
| 15 | They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’ |
| 16 | That man , what a funny character , did he treat everyone as if they were in the Army ? |
| 17 | Now , it looked as if they were newly decorating so whether the water got into there or not , but it did n't look as if they were in the process of decorating so I hope it did n't for their sake . |
| 18 | Mainly there was silence , in still greenish light , as if she were at the bottom of a pool . |
| 19 | Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter . |
| 20 | word clear and comprehensible as if she were in the front row of the stalls . |
| 21 | She felt as if she were in the middle of a minefield . |
| 22 | She could n't bear this any longer , this toing and froing of his emotions , tossing her around as if she were in the eye of a tornado . |
| 23 | As usual when drunk , he spoke to her as if she was at the other end of the street . |
| 24 | My mum looked as if she was in the middle of being kidnapped . |
| 25 | ‘ But it 's as if he 's in the same room . |
| 26 | It was as if he was on the other side of a river that no one knew how to cross . |
| 27 | The young man belched and blinked his eyes as if he was on the point of falling asleep . |
| 28 | Roy was standing in the doorway , staring at the kitchen as if he was in the wrong house . |
| 29 | Still sitting as if he was in the saddle , the Corporal loosed off a defiant burst , then swung over and down to us . |
| 30 | There was a deep crease between his nose and the corners of his mouth , as if he was in the habit of sneering . |