Example sentences of "[verb] as [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is to provide that the rent shall be calculated as if the index had not been adjusted . |
| 2 | The capital gains made by the trust on 31 December 1993 are chargeable to UK capital gains tax as if the trust were a UK resident . |
| 3 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 4 | In the mid-third century Bishop Stephen of Rome asserted that all should observe the tradition of Peter and Paul : viz. those baptized outside the church by schismatic clergy should be readmitted as penitents by imposition of hands , but not treated as if the majesty of Christ 's name had never been pronounced . |
| 5 | The sitting-room was long , and looked as if a child had been let loose with buckets of primary colours . |
| 6 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 7 | She 'd found no sign of life anywhere on her travels , no supporting staff , though the house and gardens looked as if an army of faithful family retainers had slaved there for centuries . |
| 8 | The coin looked as if the minter struck it on a single die , punching the image in the metal in repoussé , so hard that the inverted ear on the reverse would appear on the other side , and could be read the right way round in shallow relief when the coin was turned over . |
| 9 | Everything seemed to be going well , and it must have looked as if the weight of Galileo and the rest of the scientific world might succeed and get a thorough revision of orthodox science . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He just looks as if a puff of wind would blow him away , ’ George finished . |
| 12 | She looks as if a wind could blow her away . " |
| 13 | Turns round and looks as if a bus had hit it . |
| 14 | AFTER years of lobbying , it looks as if the Government will bring in legislation to force brewers to list the ingredients in their beers . |
| 15 | With Bath to play their last match at home , it looks as if the title will once again belong to the West Country , even if Orrell were to win their last two games , as Bath 's points difference is much the greater . |
| 16 | In this case too it looks as if the decision is out of line with the most obvious interpretation of the words . |
| 17 | So er it looks as if the decision 's against , so I 'm almost sure that the decision at Johnstown will be against . |
| 18 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 19 | Number three has a quite different style of roundel and , to me it looks as if the tail stripe colours are reversed ! |
| 20 | It looks as if the day may not be so far away when we can all do our shopping , banking and working from our homes . |
| 21 | ‘ It looks as if the fog wants to come in , ’ she said absently . |
| 22 | It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue . |
| 23 | At present , it looks as if the craft ( which will be launched in 1985 ) will carry only test signals to start with . |
| 24 | It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality . |
| 25 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 26 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 27 | " It looks as if the blood flowed fairly steadily , but without any preliminary splashing . |
| 28 | It remains to be seen whether they will still be in business to take the show to London in April ; it looks as if the outcome of the Northern group may rest on the Roses game later in the month . |
| 29 | I 'm afraid that it looks as if the game will be completely ruined . |
| 30 | But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’ |