Example sentences of "if it [be] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | It acts as if it is looking after all our interests in ways too subtle and refined for us to understand . |
2 | Does n't look as if it 's moving at all to me . |
3 | However , if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate , gravity would never be strong enough to stop it , and the universe would continue to expand forever . |
4 | But it 's still at your , if it was going to another sector I could understand that attitude , but when it is being , it 's still within Intercity , I just can not understand that that is the attitude we take . |
5 | If it were travelling at any other velocity , it would either move out into deep space , or crash into the Sun , or move into another orbit . |
6 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |