Example sentences of "if [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 2 | I felt myself falling , falling , as if for the first time , deeper and deeper into mysterious pits of passion and anxiety , longing and despair . |
| 3 | She admired his hands , seeing the slender curled fingers and pink palms as if for the first time . |
| 4 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 5 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 6 | And yet , in spite of the fatigue , he felt , good , as if for the first time in his life he had really stretched himself and grown up . |
| 7 | It is all very well expounding the theory that an artist should cultivate an innocent eye , seeing things as if for the first time . |
| 8 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 9 | Then one July evening , just before the war , he suddenly noticed the roses as if for the first time . |
| 10 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 11 | If for the Spanish right the Republic had confirmed its promise as an uncongenial regime , for sections of the left it had by mid-1933 failed to fulfil hopes of far-reaching and irreversible social reform . |
| 12 | As far as the charter is concerned they may be on the right track ( if for the wrong reasons ) . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly this proved the right choice , if for the wrong reasons . |
| 14 | If during the next year the parameters do not change , then the certainty equivalent for year 2 will be equal to . |
| 15 | Because if you should think some now in the next five or ten minutes , and then if during the next week you meet in the week sometime |
| 16 | The girls were always willing and always high-caste , even if like the Creole beauty , Solitaire , of Live And Let Die ( 1954 ) they were also half-caste : |
| 17 | Application is made on the general form of application ( N 244 ) supported by affidavit which must verify the amount of damages , give the grounds of the application , exhibit any documentary evidence and if under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 give all particulars ( RSC Ord 29 , r 10(3) ) . |
| 18 | Back from the great plains of Central Canada comes the brief response , as crisp and neutral as if from the other side of the airwell , ‘ Treacher . ’ |
| 19 | Leila and Quincx are tackling if from the wrong angle . |
| 20 | She looked at the singer and his wife as if from the wrong end of a telescope . |
| 21 | If in the 1960s firms had responded to regional policy assistance , for instance , it was necessary to know why at that time they had needed that assistance . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is possible that if in the manager-owner contract nexus the manager bears little risk , this may spill over into a lack of control over employees . |
| 23 | She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’ |
| 24 | This will certainly be true if in the current BFS , because it is a reverse variable ( why ? ) so and its value does not change ( a degenerate pivot ) . |
| 25 | And if in the present case the staff plan is at fault , blame can be laid at no one 's door but my own . |
| 26 | Such a problem would not arise in the perfect capital market scenario sketched out above ( although if the qualification provided new information about the distribution of cash flows , there might be an interdependence between the qualification and asset prices ) but if in the real world the qualification caused investors and creditors to withdraw funds , refuse lines of credit or otherwise alter their behaviour , then the qualification might indeed be a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
| 27 | It would be less passive , but still a form of projection , if in the above illustration I were to add , ‘ And doctors … if you would n't mind making notes … to help our discussion later ’ . |
| 28 | If in the early days she was chiefly responsible for shifting a lot of blue eyeliner and baseball caps , she gradually became an inspiration to the frail , the disadvantaged and the miserable . |
| 29 | I just feel that you know , if you if in the seventh year they get the opinion that you work in school and you do nowt out of school come ninth year , tenth year , eleventh year you ai n't gon na change it ! |
| 30 | Provided that an object is conceived to be real , reactions to it are the same in kind whether one happens to be perceiving or imagining it ; and if in the latter case one reacts less strongly , that is because one is also less aware of it . |