Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 2 | She said her name timidly , as if it felt strange to address her so . |
| 3 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
| 4 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 5 | He held the book out between finger and thumb as if it contained some dangerous virus which at any moment could threaten the whole school . |
| 6 | He leaned forward once again , subjecting her to the unnerving illusion of being pinned by his shadow , trapped and oppressed by it , as if it carried physical weight , composed of all that he felt for her , lust and contempt . |
| 7 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 8 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 9 | The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night . |
| 10 | And I noticed that the skin was hanging loose in folds over the shoulder and behind it , as if it had fit a rounder form yesterday , before the rigours of birth . |
| 11 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 12 | He said it matter of factly , as if it happened all the time . |
| 13 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 14 | She would be drinking coffee as if it cost less than water , wearing alligator shoes made to fit her pretty feet , and watching at Tommaso 's side a parade of half-naked girls with bracelets round their legs , whirling to a drummer 's flying hands , while a group of handsome , grinning soldiers stood by . |
| 15 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 16 | Oh it was genuinely gone quite genuine , he said you now , he had a , that we know about but it had genuine |
| 17 | It was all quite extraordinary ; but it was also exhilarating , in that it explored new expressive possibilities in the concerto while maintaining utter idiomatic integrity . |
| 18 | Late in 1950 the French Minister of Agriculture , Pierre Pflimlin , announced at the Council of Europe — and proposed later in March 1951 to the non-member states of Austria , Portugal and Switzerland — something which amounted to a second Schuman Plan , in that it contained similar ultimate objectives : a common market directed by supranational institutions . |
| 19 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
| 20 | Its moral claims were , in the most literal sense of the word , conservative , in that it enjoined ancient truths and established values , and Samuel Johnson as well as William Blake was a hero . |
| 21 | This method of teaching was effective in that it produced good results in an examination which focused on mathematical content . |
| 22 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |
| 23 | The River Weaver had been improved in 1733 , but the improvement of the Sankey Brook Navigation from the coalfield around St Helens in 1754 – 7 was especially significant in that it involved several new cuts . |
| 24 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |
| 25 | The colonial state was a peculiar extension of the metropolitan capitalist state , in that it established political authority relations at the point of production and expanded state control over marketing . |