Example sentences of "if [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman , on the other hand , is used to moods and can often change them at will , as if stepping into a new outfit of clothes ( Robert A. Johnson , He — Understanding Masculine Psychology ) . |
| 2 | Boswell feared vermin ; Johnson anticipated the chill as if stepping into a cold bath , and tied a coloured handkerchief around his head . |
| 3 | He pondered gloomily for a moment , then with an effort stretched himself as if climbing into an uncomfortable Sunday suit , and gave judgement . |
| 4 | Hence , if stripping of the anal mucosa with encoanal anastomosis is used in older patients , we think that it is more likely to lead to lower anal pressures and faecal leakage after operation than the technically simpler alternative of end to end anastomosis . |
| 5 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 6 | If Looking on the Bright Side ( 1932 ) is sometimes spoilt by the fact that the director , Basil Dean , seems to be under the impression he is making a sophisticated Hollywood musical , the scenes in the tenement block where Fields and her songwriter lover first meet are genuinely stirring . |
| 7 | He paused , as if searching for the right words . |
| 8 | If writing on an electronic tablet , which combines the input and display devices , the user may find it disconcerting to see the handwriting changing under their pen . ) |
| 9 | Taczek leant back , slung his arms behind his head and stretched his chunky arms as if waking from a deep sleep . |
| 10 | But his finger never pulled the trigger for he , too , felt an explosion in his chest and , as if going into a slow dive , he dropped to the earth , the gun still gripped in his hand , and as he died he heard a voice yelling , ‘ Christ ! |
| 11 | You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter . |
| 12 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 13 | Although the four of them were practically knee to knee , he made as if speaking in a vast auditorium . |
| 14 | He cast a sidelong glance through the window , as if ruminating on a philosophical problem . |
| 15 | Mozart 's perception and understanding of the female psyche is especially illuminating in this piece and Jane Leslie MacKenzie 's sad and tense characterisation of the Countess was extremely plausible , if lacking in the real sense of fun which the lady must have had in order to be drawn into the intrigues in the first place . |
| 16 | Many of our finest singers — such as Josephine Barstow and John Tomlinson — have given memorable ‘ star ’ performances for Opera North ; others , like Sally Burgess and Helen Field , have developed their repertoire here , in productions which , if lacking in the radical Central European flavour promoted by the Welsh National Opera , are rarely less than good-looking and intelligent . |
| 17 | It invites us — as if calling upon a godly power which is its superior . ’ |
| 18 | If keyboarding of the two texts could not be run in parallel , some other arrangement would have to be adopted which allowed the overlapping of phases . |
| 19 | ‘ Stella , ’ he called again , as if asking for the only person he needed . |
| 20 | Moths fluttered in the light of lamps hanging from the trees as if dancing to the soft , rhythmic jingle of the cicadas . |
| 21 | The matrons with their marked brows , hooped earrings and prominent noses had hardly altered , though the scarlet and mulberry cloaks painted in the tombs had vanished from all but the youngest and luckiest women among Davide 's kin , for a single death in the family charred them all , turning young and old into sable-winged crow-women — in churches , at the threshing , at the well , as if flocking in the turned field . |
| 22 | If scratching by the human host removes the roof of the burrow , the mite will wander away until it finds another suitable site . |
| 23 | as if dealing with a stubborn splinter fixed firmly and painfully down behind a fingernail , Zambia patiently nudged and pushed and , eventually , the agonising sliver was expelled . |
| 24 | If dealing with a large number of candidates you may like to ask the candidate if you may take a polaroid picture for the application form if this has not been supplied already . |
| 25 | Examination of election propaganda before the 1930 ‘ breakthrough ’ poll has indicated that attacks on Jews provided more of a background than a main theme , and it appears that Hitler 's speeches tended not to tackle the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , especially if dealing with an upper middle-class audience . |
| 26 | Mona and Sheila were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . |
| 27 | Mona and Shiela were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . ’ |
| 28 | We pile into the car as if embarking on a real motor trip ; Gemma and I are in front , Anita in the back . |
| 29 | Snow Blizzard is something of a quirky character but would win Lingfield 's mile and a half Taurus Handicap if adapting to the all weather surface . |
| 30 | He stood with his back to the fire , dominating the room and as if trying at the same time to dominate Sarella 's thoughts . |