Example sentences of "[prep] if [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the last show , or earlier if they were n't working , Arthur would often fall prey to the bite of melancholy , with such sharp dread of all endings that he would greatly fear going to sleep , as if nothing would be left to him unless he kept watch on it . |
| 2 | Joe Burns lowered his voice , as if they might be overheard . |
| 3 | She patted his hand and smiled , then pursed her lips together as if they must be forced not to speak another word . |
| 4 | These qualities are perceptible but the nature of their interactions is never talked of as if they could be quantified . |
| 5 | She felt as if she might be struck by lightning if she stayed where she was . |
| 6 | Ellwood crouched down alongside the priest and looked this way and that , as if he might be given some notion of what to do next . |
| 7 | He was very apologetic , and looked as if he might be taken away and hanged for the delay . |
| 8 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you sure , though , ’ the man continued , desperately , ‘ a fine young woman , rather on the thin side but a lady , no doubting it , and a terrible young scoundrel , a thief of a man who looked as if he should be hanged . ’ |
| 10 | After all , he knew Mr Parnham better than she did and he did n't look as if he could be fooled at all . |
| 11 | It had taken her all this time to put her life back together , and now it looked as if it might be turned completely upside down again , and all because of Julius ! |
| 12 | In the part in which she was standing was a small table and two chairs and an iron contraption that looked as if it might be used for some form of heating . |
| 13 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 14 | Then the odd whitewashed marshland cottage stands strangely palpable , as if it could be plucked from the scene and held for ever . |
| 15 | We should therefore be suspicious of any expository textbook which presents the criminal law as if it could be stated in a finite number of propositions from which all solutions could ultimately be derived without further choices at the point of application . |
| 16 | Althusser 's procedure has been to show that , within a notion of history that seemed as if it could be invoked on its own as self-evident , there rests an entire presupposition about the conception of the social whole that is not derived from Marxist theory . |
| 17 | There was no archetypal couch in Dr Kingdom 's consulting room , although a chair by the window looked as if it could be converted for the purpose . |
| 18 | ‘ You sound as if you might be angered by my suggestion , ’ said the counsellor . |
| 19 | Some management writers take the view that a matrix should not be resorted to if it can be done without . |