Example sentences of "[prep] if [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Co-producer Robert Relea hit back : ‘ It 's not as if we like working nights . ’ |
| 2 | First , we all have to live and act as if we were sure and as if we had reliable knowledge . |
| 3 | We act and will continue to act as if we have free will , whether our actions are determined or not . |
| 4 | The predatory spirits , on the other hand , are described as if they bore actual malice toward humans . |
| 5 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 6 | Figure 9–3(b) illustrates the special ease where A and B have identical utility functions or , alternatively , where it is accepted that A and B ought always to be treated as if they had identical utility functions . |
| 7 | Hyam also deplores the recent ‘ willingness of Third World governments to adopt the peculiar Purity laws and conventions of Britain in the 1880s as if they represented ultimate truths about human civilisation ’ . |
| 8 | Then , as if to break the spell , the sheep dogs began to bark frenziedly and the nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger . |
| 9 | But at all times I would prefer them to act as if they have non-speaking parts . |
| 10 | He is a man of about fifty-five , with a quick ‘ nervous manner , as if he had pressing engagements elsewhere , which seems unlikely : the university has run out of steam and its faculty members are all jumping ship , if they can . |
| 11 | He could imagine Galland , a small man who looked as if he had permanent indigestion . |
| 12 | It is as if he glimpses absolute Truth in and through particular instances of truth . |
| 13 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
| 14 | He leaned forward once again , subjecting her to the unnerving illusion of being pinned by his shadow , trapped and oppressed by it , as if it carried physical weight , composed of all that he felt for her , lust and contempt . |
| 15 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 16 | Dalgliesh thought : Why is he behaving as if I need tactful handling , as if I 'm suffering from a private grief ? |
| 17 | The study of the voice what we say and how we say it I then introduced you to if you like advanced body language and based on the work that Marion North did and rather than take an individual movement of the body we took a cluster and how many aspects where there to cluster I wonder there were three were n't there . |