Example sentences of "[prep] if [art] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if a diary redeemed the time |
| 2 | The island is savage , blackened , proudly ruined , as if a god had a colossal tantrum and laid it to magnificent , careless waste . |
| 3 | She took the menu , scowled at it as if every dish carried a health warning , chose a couple at random and handed it back . |
| 4 | It was as if the question touched a start lever within him . |
| 5 | Control panels bristled with up to thirty-five switches and buttons as if the housewife-technologist required the skills of an airline pilot . |
| 6 | as if the speaker had a mouthful of phlegm . |
| 7 | This kind of melodic doubling often occurred in old operas , as if the composer felt the voice needed support . |
| 8 | We act as if the anti-Semitism comprehended the Fascism — which would be true only if all Fascists were anti-Semites ( they are n't ) , and if all anti-Semites were Fascists ( even less true ) . |
| 9 | Reid spoke as if the notion offered a small puzzle . |
| 10 | It is as if the wife remembers a detail out of the Miller 's Tale but misattributes it ( deliberately or by accident ) to the wrong context . |
| 11 | It is almost as if the man assigned the task has been chosen by lot , except that the drawing seems to have been fixed . |
| 12 | Second , the judicial powers of the Council were greater in practice than the official limit , a five-hundred-drachma fine : Aristophanes speaks as if the proposal to execute the poet Euripides was a Council matter ( Thesmophoriazusai 1.79 ) , and in the 360s the Council put to death a political assassin on the island of Keos ( Tod 142 = HD 55 ) . |
| 13 | In a recent well-publicised controversy a group of scientists claimed to have obtained results whereby water that once had a certain substance in it continued to behave as if the substance was present even after the substance had been removed ; as if the water retained a ‘ memory ’ of the substance . |
| 14 | It 's as if the tube sucked the sunlight out of them . |
| 15 | It sounds as if the project has the active backing of Novell Inc , because it is said that the software is being built atop a future release of the DR DOS MS-DOS-compatible operating system . |
| 16 | It sounds as if the project has the active backing of Novell Inc , because it is said that the software is being built atop a future release of the DR DOS MS-DOS-compatible operating system . |
| 17 | This is brave talk after the event , but in 1981 the speaker certainly acted as if the president had a mandate , meekly conceding control over the timetable and repeatedly running up the white flag before crucial votes . |
| 18 | When they come out of the water , it is as if the mikva represents the womb and they are reborn . |
| 19 | Surprisingly little drink was enough to intoxicate him but it seemed as if the wine released the power in him . |
| 20 | But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’ |
| 21 | It is as if the soldier writing the poem is reflecting on his friend 's death , and the sadness and tenderness become anger and bitterness . |
| 22 | In effect , it is as if the woman making the bar magnets suddenly realized that there were more questions to be asked about her job ; that pressing the button was not really much of an answer to the question ‘ How do you make magnets ? ’ |
| 23 | His mind concentrated itself on Tolby 's footsteps which were slightly uneven , as if the solicitor had a slight limp . |
| 24 | These differences can be provided for if the teacher creates a classroom environment rich in supplementary books , tapes , cassettes , and so on . |