Example sentences of "[verb] as [subord] the [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 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | AFTER years of lobbying , it looks as if the Government will bring in legislation to force brewers to list the ingredients in their beers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this case too it looks as if the decision is out of line with the most obvious interpretation of the words . |
| 10 | So er it looks as if the decision 's against , so I 'm almost sure that the decision at Johnstown will be against . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Number three has a quite different style of roundel and , to me it looks as if the tail stripe colours are reversed ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It looks as if the fog wants to come in , ’ she said absently . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At present , it looks as if the craft ( which will be launched in 1985 ) will carry only test signals to start with . |
| 17 | It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | " It looks as if the blood flowed fairly steadily , but without any preliminary splashing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid that it looks as if the game will be completely ruined . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | er looks as if the snow 's excellent does n't it ? |
| 25 | A British commentator , for example , writing in 1768 when her reputation as an enlightened ruler was at its height , thought that ‘ there is a sort of whim or affectation of singularity , in the manner of conferring her favours , that looks as if the desire of being spoken of , fully as much as the desire of doing good , was the fountain from which they flow ’ . |
| 26 | It looks as if the relegation issue in Division I wo n't be decided until Saturday week when Glasgow High-Kelvinside are away to Currie and Stirling County meet Boroughmuir at Bridgehaugh . |
| 27 | Given that Batch 3 courses are still to start — candidates will first enrol for them in the summer of 1992 — it looks as if the number of candidates involved in advanced courses in any one year is going to exceed 30,000 when the steady stage is eventually reached for the new system — and that the number of Higher National Unit enrolments per year will approach 200,000 . |
| 28 | From the present state of the Ingard bank account it looks as if the deal has n't — or has n't yet — gone through . |
| 29 | At the moment it looks as if the end of term will see us all thrown on the job market . |
| 30 | In Berkshire the Newbury clothiers were the richest men , although it looks as if the decline of the local broadcloth and kerseys had already begun , leaving a trail of poverty . |