Example sentences of "as [subord] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , Data Packet Networks , I mean it just means that we 're talking as if we 're one site and not three . |
| 2 | People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious . |
| 3 | However , Feargal Quinn makes a valid point when he argues that to talk about farm-based commodity production and the factory based processing to meet consumer demands as if they are one industry is a misleading simplification . |
| 4 | And if you did palm it off as a fact , it would be no excuse that you had done it non-linguistically : for example , by including clips from Sherlock Holmes movies in old newsreels as if they were genuine news items . |
| 5 | These people regarded the punks as if they were middle class hippies ten years on . |
| 6 | There are important questions in relation to housing policy concerning the extent to which a free market can operate and the extent to which public housing authorities should act as if they were private business concerns . |
| 7 | They sat down at the table , and took out of their pockets packets of cigarettes , lighters and calculators , placing these objects carefully in front of them as if they were necessary equipment for some game they were about to play . |
| 8 | He dug his fingers into his ribs , massaged his cheeks , and patted the back of his thighs as if they were unproved bread . |
| 9 | And he was n't alone amongst the instructors who felt this way : Jack Bisley , Sam Temple , and Amos Bernstein , they all admitted that they hated it ; but Angus McBride and Len looked forward to their trips as if they were half-day school holidays . |
| 10 | as if they were all part of some troubled dream I was having . |
| 11 | From 1987 , companies ' gains were charged to corporation tax as if they were additional income of an accounting period . |
| 12 | Since 1988 , individuals ' gains in excess of an annual exemption ( currently £5,800 ) have been taxed as if they were additional income . |
| 13 | It was n't as if they were real money . |
| 14 | It lit up her face with the intimacy of a shared confidence , as if they were old sparring partners . |
| 15 | Then , using the boards as if they were giant razor blades , he and Harry began to shave the black foam of insects off Lucy 's skin . |
| 16 | In 1988 the tax was rebased to 1982 , but at the cost of gains being charged thereafter as if they were marginal income . |
| 17 | If the top does not say anything , they could be acting as if there is full agreement when there is not . |
| 18 | ‘ It looks to me as if there 's some system of getting service that you do n't grasp . ’ |
| 19 | Mm so it was n't as if there was any query when you went to ask for it cos it |
| 20 | Such is Ireland 's thrust for self-respect that , after the match , the Irish dressing room was buzzing as if there was some confusion about the outcome . |
| 21 | ok , this poem 's called erm A Pause In A Moment Worn out days dressed in damp wheat , heavy coat pulling at tired shoulders , memory pushed back , brought forward in the click of a stick , pause in a moment , sunset reflected in eyes offering the warmth of recognition , so that poem started with the overcoat and that was the mood as I say , that was the mood of rejection erm and there was something about the way the old girl was looking at the women on the bridge , almost as if there was this recognition and , as it brought back memories that perhaps went or as black as the overcoat , erm the next er painting which I 'm going to read to you about is erm have you |
| 22 | Had she not known Félix so well , Alice thought , touching the necklace at her throat , she might now be feeling as if there were some kind of trap closing slowly about her . |
| 23 | It saddens me to hear some people in Britain speak as if there were some way of keeping Germany divided whether or not this is what the Germans want . |
| 24 | You know , as if erm , as if there were some censor present who , who , who wanted to make judgments . |
| 25 | ‘ as if there were some monster in thy thought/Too hideous to be shown . |
| 26 | It is a common enough linguistic trick — and one of which neurobiologists are themselves often guilty — to speak as if there were some sort of evolutionary scale or ladder of complexity , along which all the living forms found on earth today can be arrayed to form a series of ‘ more evolved ’ and ‘ less evolved ’ organisms . |
| 27 | The four first-year women at B subverted this by swapping lab books ; Marie said , ‘ We 're not meant to , but we do ’ — as if there were some shame attached to having to ask for help . |
| 28 | Settling back against the pillows , he drew her against him and , holding her as if she were egg-shell china , cradled her head on his chest . |
| 29 | She had no objection to working for her keep , but if Penry Vaughan went on treating her as if she were some kind of serf she 'd stick to plain , basic cooking from now on , she thought resentfully . |
| 30 | Kandinskaya watched her as if she were some lab specimen but eight months of training had taught Jezrael techniques that smoothed her responses to a minimum . |