Example sentences of "if [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 2 | As far as the charter is concerned they may be on the right track ( if for the wrong reasons ) . |
| 3 | I felt myself falling , falling , as if for the first time , deeper and deeper into mysterious pits of passion and anxiety , longing and despair . |
| 4 | She admired his hands , seeing the slender curled fingers and pink palms as if for the first time . |
| 5 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 6 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 7 | And yet , in spite of the fatigue , he felt , good , as if for the first time in his life he had really stretched himself and grown up . |
| 8 | Whatever is ultimately decided by the boards and the UKCC it is still in your own and your patients interests for you to undertake some form of formal updating , even if for the moment this is left to your own and your employer 's discretion . |
| 9 | If for the Spanish right the Republic had confirmed its promise as an uncongenial regime , for sections of the left it had by mid-1933 failed to fulfil hopes of far-reaching and irreversible social reform . |
| 10 | The famous late figurine of a goddess found in a small rural shrine at Gazi wears a diadem embellished with three carefully depicted poppy seed-heads , and they have been cut as if for the extraction of opium . |
| 11 | If for the Frankfurt School the problem to be dealt with was the relation of the phenomena of fascism , and particularly Auschwitz , to the ideals of the enlightenment and the progress of reason , for the French poststructuralists the historical perspective was similarly long . |
| 12 | It is all very well expounding the theory that an artist should cultivate an innocent eye , seeing things as if for the first time . |
| 13 | If for the moment we assume it to be real and unrepeated , then all other eigenvalues have smaller moduli . |
| 14 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 15 | Rutli is reached on foot by the marked path from Seelisberg in half an hour ; if for the return walk an easier ascent is preferred , take the gentle ascent-descent to Treib previously described in reverse direction ; then back to Seelisberg by funicular . |
| 16 | Then one July evening , just before the war , he suddenly noticed the roses as if for the first time . |
| 17 | Undoubtedly this proved the right choice , if for the wrong reasons . |
| 18 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 19 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 20 | Unfortunately these are often difficult to calculate accurately , although it has been shown by Tung that the error introduced by broadening is negligible if for the sample . |
| 21 | Another possibility if for the user or the analyst ( or both ) to develop a ‘ prototype ’ . |
| 22 | The request ( if for the purpose of enforcement ) shall not be dealt with until after any pending proceedings whet her for variation of an instalment order , setting aside , an administration order , or a stay of execution , are determined ( Ord 25 , r 13 ) . |
| 23 | The information had also been disclosed in confidence to another shareholder who was using if for the purpose of making a bid for the plaintiff company . |
| 24 | Her and Fernando , loving , making love as if for the very first time , with urgency and excitement and a fevered rush of emotions . |
| 25 | ‘ I think the public will be better protected if for the next two years and possibly afterwards you are on a regime of medication which will ensure you do n't do anything like this again , ’ he said . |
| 26 | And if for the time being , that 's a high price , then that is one of the things that we 've got to accept as part of what 's going on in the Gulf , however painful that may be . |
| 27 | The eyes were there , glaring down at me from behind high defensive cheekbones , as if through the slits of a visor . |
| 28 | Well if through the winter months when there 's no fire in there , no nothing in there the damp is bound to be coming through there . |
| 29 | If during the examination the vet is concerned about the hocks , for example , I say to feel free to take more . |
| 30 | There is an exemption limit of £5,800 a year : so if during the year your total profits amount to £12,000 , tax would only be levied on £6,200 . |