Example sentences of "if it be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " 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 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 4 | I do n't get the feeling that they particularly care whether this murder is solved or not ; anyway they want it solved on their terms and if it 's going to muddy a lot of their holy bloody waters they 'd like us to go away . |
| 5 | look 's like that an all , I want to know if it 's going in weekly or monthly |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If it was travelling at 20 mph and someone else recklessly drove into it , the aggravated offence would have been committed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |