That famous red B looked as if it was made out of hand-dipped Maker's Mark wax.
The center line looked as if it was running over an active fault line.
The auditors generally give it some weight, but not as much as if it was created contemporaneously.
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It just looked as if it was run down and it wasn't the best thing for Wales.
The government official made it sound as if it was all routine, nothing out of the ordinary really.
But we (and often they) post-rationalise things as if it was all planned as such from the get-go.
John McCain and Barack Obama talk as if it was all down to the greed of modern bankers.
The plane was making an odd sound as it passed overhead, as if it was stalling, he said.
If somebody is suffering through injustice or inequality, we take up their cause as if it was our own.
Yet he made it sound as if it was no more difficult than pumping gas at a filling station.
But by 2005, the Baby Doll practice seemed as if it was about to be forgotten in Katrina's wake.
Grown men getting together like that, as if it was weird or unnatural.
However, I remember Mr. Pulliam like Mr. Pulliam remembers the game of his career: as if it was yesterday.
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Now we don't know that, but we do know the aircraft acted as if it was not being controlled purposefully.
There is a line from the Gospel of John that seems as if it was written with this scene in mind.
Many people celebrate their tax refund as if it was a gift, rather than the return of a forced interest-free loan.
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If the child doesn't feel like playing along, the show will continue passively, just as if it was broadcast on TV.
I'm there and I live the game, I live the match as if it was the last match of my career.
Did that love just get erased from the big board, as if it was never up there, as if it never happened?
As if it was not hard enough for Mr Amato to assemble this awkward team, he was soon embroiled in further controversy.
Run a little piece of software and the device will show up as another drive, as if it was internal or connected via USB.
But now, gloom and doom seems to be prevailing, and some are already talking of the next recession as if it was a foregone conclusion.
Today, as if it was a new revelation, a credit rating agency reported that U.S. banks are exposed to European debt and are at risk .
Instead, they will get a new trial at the Supreme Court of Appeal "as if it was a trial for the first time, " the agency said.
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"I'm always amazed how the National Rifle Association in America points to Switzerland - they make it sound as if it was part of southern Texas!"
He was in command of his facts, but Vista bombed and, at times, seemed as if it was going to take the company down with it.
He added that derestricted roads encouraged motorcyclists to ride the TT route as if it was "track day" and he called on the government to "act responsibly".
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In other words: This is a device that feels as if it was made by people who wanted it to be the absolute best it could be.
The coaches on the Big 12's spring teleconference were already talking about the Cotton Bowl having a spot in the rotation as if it was a done deal.
"Just the media reports I saw looked as if it was somewhat unprovoked so there must be something behind that, and the assault seems extremely vicious, " Key added.
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