Example sentences of "be [prep] if [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if they can find no other way of being in school than one which feels phoney and uncongenial . |
| 2 | Wittgenstein pointed out that no account is satisfactory that assumes that a human somehow surveys the alternatives and chooses one : ‘ It is as if I should say that the application of a word does not pass in one moment in front of my eye ’ ( 1964 : 15 ) . |
| 3 | It is as if you could read in them simultaneously transcriptions of inducement , threat , coercion , protection , solace , yearning and resistance . |
| 4 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 5 | It was as if I could see Dorothy looking at them , looking at them , trying to draw something from them to help her to hold on . |
| 6 | It was as if he 'd come to her mother like a refugee , because there were no mementoes of his childhood or his youth . |
| 7 | It was as if he could feel the life-force vibrating through his being , and tingling out of his fingertips . |
| 8 | Because the women were so strange to him , it was as if he could sense the warmth of their spirits as a palpable force in the house . |
| 9 | It was as if he could hear and see , smell and taste better than before . |
| 10 | It was as if she 'd let the qualities of courage and daring , which were only masks she wore to protect herself , slip from her face . |