Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] if a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hut windows were misted as if a concerted bluster of hot air had steamed them . |
| 2 | No wonder Denmark signalled its dissatisfaction with Maastricht and all it stands for if a batsman needs 10,000 words of multi-lingual explanation before he is allowed to take guard . |
| 3 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 4 | The sitting-room was long , and looked as if a child had been let loose with buckets of primary colours . |
| 5 | He just looks as if a puff of wind would blow him away , ’ George finished . |
| 6 | This is a Southern Asian fish which can reach lengths well over 24in ( 60cm ) , with a base colour of gold/brown , it then looks as if a tyre has run along the length of the body leaving dark brown tread markings all along the eel . |
| 7 | The initiative was not continued , but it now looks as if a new partner has been found in the shape of the Venice Soprintendenza . |
| 8 | Turns round and looks as if a bus had hit it . |
| 9 | It looks as if a false belief could never be indefeasibly justified since there would always be some truth ( even if only the negation of the false belief ) whose addition would destroy the justification . |
| 10 | After that , the pace of your life will begin to slow down and although confusion will reign supreme around the 26th , it looks as if a long-awaited breakthrough will materialise . |
| 11 | She looks as if a wind could blow her away . " |
| 12 | A pretty pass we 've come to if a man ca n't have a friend without being labelled queer . ’ |
| 13 | The odd thing was that , after he had entered the paint shop , he had felt as if a heavy wave of sadness had suddenly been lifted from out of him . |
| 14 | They had apparently felt as if a burden had been lifted from them and why tempt fate by attempting to get her back ? |
| 15 | But , rightly , ICI is acting as if a bid is imminent , preparing its defences and making plans for itself in a way that guarantees that much will change at the firm . |
| 16 | Holders of this theory would suggest that syphilis was already established in Europe in pre-Columbian days and it was the increase in knowledge and the travel resulting from the Renaissance that made it appear as if a new disease had been introduced . |
| 17 | He felt his skin tingle , he felt the fine hair all along his spine react as if a low current had been run through him . |
| 18 | Fergus gave a truly terrible cry , and for a moment it seemed as if a sudden coldness had descended . |
| 19 | Or rather , I could feel the old cautious Bodenland inside , but it seemed as if a new man , fitted for decision and adventure , had taken control of me . |
| 20 | Yet he was such a skilful flyer that to an American of the Lafayette Squadron it seemed as if a plane obeyed his thoughts rather than the controls , and at Verdun alone he shot down six German aircraft and a balloon . |
| 21 | Simply plugs into socket and controls any appliance which can be plugged into 13amp socket , to make it look as if a house is occupied . |
| 22 | TO overstate the attendance is both a good public relations exercise — making it look as if a team is better-supported than it is — and a possible outlet for laundering ‘ dirty money . ’ |
| 23 | It began to look as if a wee riot might be in order . |
| 24 | Mature evergreen trees , such as Ilex crenata , have been trained and clipped into formal shapes which look as if a green cloud is floating on each branch . |
| 25 | ‘ You look as if a good meal would n't come amiss . ’ |
| 26 | Ah but it 's silly because the thing is , th the they 're , well the , th those , th those two rooms look as if a bloody tip has hit it ! |
| 27 | In their futile endeavour Joseph Chamberlain and his contemporaries were only re-enacting in modern dress the plot of the mideighteenth-century drama , by proceeding as if a common will and desire to be subordinate existed when it did not . |
| 28 | If your engine is using a lot of oil it sounds as if a replacement or rebuild is required . |
| 29 | The norm of institutional patriotism lost its force with senators no longer speaking as if a seat in the Senate was the very height of their ambition |
| 30 | Looking back , it almost seems as if a policy of ‘ build 'em up , knock 'em down ’ was being formally instituted . |