Example sentences of "[pron] as [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what you said about reconnaissance equipment it rather sounds to me as if the tornado D R one A is likely to be replaced by in this reconnaissance role . |
| 2 | He looked at me as if the answer was obvious . |
| 3 | It looks to me as if the Doctor manipulated Paula Engado 's feelings with a faked message from her adulterous lover Cheryl Russell to the effect that Cheryl would n't leave her husband , Sam . |
| 4 | It looks to me as if the situation was that the Inquisition would have liked to do nothing but was forced to do so by the detailed and documented evidence claiming that Galileo was in fact a heretic . |
| 5 | Members of clinical teams which manage attempted suicide patients should be familiar with the special problem of patients who deliberately injure themselves , and not just deal with them as if the behaviour was the same as self-poisoning . |
| 6 | Perhaps other people do n't suffer from my nightmares or waken in a cold sweat in the middle of the night , confronting fragmented episodes from their distant past , floating by them as if the detritus of a forgotten shipwreck in an Arctic sea . |
| 7 | And once they climbed so high they entered the clouds and there was nothing but a great whiteness around them as if the world had been erased by a giant rubber . |
| 8 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 9 | It seemed to her as if every hair on her body , every roughness of skin , unevenness of toenail , snagged on the sticky , shiny fibres . |
| 10 | He turned to glance at her as if the sound of her laugh was quite pleasant to his ears . |
| 11 | He slammed a fist up at her as if the force of his gesture could throw her the last five feet , and screamed at her although he knew that she could n't hear . |
| 12 | Holly seemed to look at him as if the matter of a fire that destroyed the office of the Commandant was neither of occasion nor note . |
| 13 | It had sounded to him as if the shot had come from somewhere near the pools . |
| 14 | She took the menu , scowled at it as if every dish carried a health warning , chose a couple at random and handed it back . |
| 15 | My eyes were drawn to it as if the Officer had left part of himself here on the grass . |
| 16 | For Millie , the lesson needed no thinking , for the sister had practically told them what to say , but she wove a story round it as if the incident were happening in Benton Fields at the present time . |
| 17 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 18 | While he and Charlotte went steadily ahead making their preparations , Ruth rushed at hers as if the summons to depart might arrive the very next day . |
| 19 | The only difference then was the weather for it turned cold and hard , the clouds massing thick above us as if the sky intended to fall and crush out all life on the face of the earth . |
| 20 | It looks to many of us as if the Government are using the helmet issue to divert attention from spending money on real facilities for cyclists . |