Example sentences of "be [prep] if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can just imagine what it would be like if a child was actually wearing this at the time of ignition . |
| 2 | I wonder what it 'd be like if the phone suddenly rung and it was for me . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home . |
| 4 | It 's as if the relationship needed redefining and I was n't committed to doing that . |
| 5 | But I ca n't explain it , it 's as if the devil himself is down there , and there 's this horrible smell that chokes you and at the same time you get the feeling that something evil is lying in wait for you . |
| 6 | It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks . |
| 7 | It 's as if the denial of the pain inhibits their capacity to learn . |
| 8 | It 's as if the tube sucked the sunlight out of them . |
| 9 | One may compare such a public certification of the title with the stamp on a coin , which attests the genuineness of the metal , whereas the system of private investigation of title is as if a man was obliged to employ an expert analyst to test the genuineness of the coins which might be tendered to him . |
| 10 | In these experiments , the rats learn the new trick best at those times when they remember the old trick least well : it is as if a rat can learn a new trick more easily when its memory is not muddling it with the memory of the old trick . |
| 11 | It is as if a wind instrument , soulless in itself , were being played through warm and breathing tissues instead of through wood or metal . |
| 12 | The whole effect is as if an aftermarket body-kit specialist has had a go at embellishing a 911 , with the predictable result . |
| 13 | In the case of the curious ‘ rodent-run ’ display , it is as if the bird is running away and hiding at the same time . |
| 14 | The relations among the actors all relate to their positions in the bureaucratic organization and it is as if the bureaucracy were a self-contained world , except for the points of contact where commerce with the rest of the world enters and leaves . |
| 15 | It is as if the company in some very deep way has been unable to acknowledge that customers even have choices . |
| 16 | It is as if the past is being rejected with the author adopting a rhetoric commonly used by anti-fascists . |
| 17 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 18 | It is as if the promoter regions for luxury proteins contain a list of ‘ addresses ’ at which the gene should be active . |
| 19 | ‘ It is as if the realisation of their utter irrelevance , and the futility of their actions , drives the terrorists on to ever more barbaric crimes . |
| 20 | It is as if the speaker , in a state of semi-consciousness , was first aware of the stimulus , and then , an instant later , suddenly awoke to find himself confronted with the result provoked by this stimulus , without being conscious of the passage from one state to the other . |
| 21 | It is as if the wife remembers a detail out of the Miller 's Tale but misattributes it ( deliberately or by accident ) to the wrong context . |
| 22 | It is as if the public recognizes that society has changed over the decade but does not much like what sees . |
| 23 | It is as if the monarchy is not a value in itself , but needs to be justified by more basic and universally accepted values . |
| 24 | In the first use it is a lifeless , dull word but the second time it is used it is as if the day has been given life to grow and expand . |
| 25 | It is as if the writer were drawing , in words , one of those pictorial maps where each point of approach is represented by a picture , each landscape captured on the page in one carefully selected view described in a concrete , unfussy , immediate way . |
| 26 | In order to hold on to what is most important to them it is as if the courting couple enter into an unconscious agreement with each other not to expose differences , even if this results in negating themselves . |
| 27 | When Serena dies , leaving Stella behind , it is as if the dominance of control and stability has come to an end . |
| 28 | It is as if the discovery could have no meaning for anyone experiencing the novel — which would certainly be curious . |
| 29 | It is as if the legislature wishes both to compromise the criminalizing effect of conviction and to mitigate the impact of a prosecution facilitated by strict liability ( cf. |
| 30 | Once the colour disappears it is as if the prey animal has suddenly ceased to exist . |