Example sentences of "as [subord] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes , it 's as if it takes a breathing space . ’ |
| 2 | She was staring at the holiday roster as if it contained the meaning of life . |
| 3 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 4 | A moan rises from the wind , as if it had a spirit . |
| 5 | I should prefer the headland without it but it 's beginning to look as if it had a right to be there . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's as if it had a mind of its own ’ , ’ Grimma read . |
| 7 | His crushed throat felt as if it had a lump of stone lodged inside it . |
| 8 | Esther says of Mrs Jellyby : her voice impressed my fancy as if it had a sort of spectacles on too Ch 8 and of Mr Turveydrop : |
| 9 | There was a moment of silence as their gazes locked , and his last sentence seemed to hang in the air , as if it had a meaning beyond the surface value of the words . |
| 10 | Mossadeq declare that Iran did not need a settlement anyway ; much better that the country proceed as if it had no oil — at least that way it would not be exploited . |
| 11 | It gave her great qualms that it had been lying in the hall since the morning 's post , as if it had an atmosphere capable of permeating the whole house . |
| 12 | I had fixed my mind on that image of that ruined theatre as if it held the clue to my whole identity . |
| 13 | And reciprocally , if memory formation requires the synthesis of proteins for the construction of synapses , then if one could stop the proteins from being synthesized around the time of learning then the memory should not be formed ; an animal trained on a task and prevented from synthesizing proteins should behave as if it has no memory for the task — is amnesic — when it is subsequently asked to perform it . |