Sentence examples for I as if from inspiring English sources

Lucy Ellmann's dismissive review of Henning Mankell's "Depths" (April 15) treats the book, set in neutral Sweden during World War I, as if it were simply a fantastical story of a man torn between two women.

As he went to grab the last one off it's guitar stand, Keith leapt out from behind his drum kit and pantomimed, "Please, may I?" as if he were a butler.

The regression approach to interval mapping (Equation 1) treats p i as if it were an observed outcome, and as a result overestimates the residual variance for each observation by v i = α 2 (p i T (r ) 2 − (p i T r ) 2 ) (X u 1995; X u 1998; F eenstra et al. 2006).

Logistic regression models the case-control status of individual i as if sampled from, where i's propensity is determined by a linear function of the m SNP predictors (1) where is the value of the jth SNP for the ith individual and the th element of the column-centered design matrix, μ is the intercept, and are the effects of the m predictors.

This parameter can take values ranging from 0 (no competition) to 1, in which case an individual from population j competes with an individual from population i as if they were members of the same population i. V i denotes the habitat size, where delimits the interspecific density-dependent mortality before the sexual maturity stage (Henson et al. 2001).

To simultaneously accommodate and detect outliers we model the individual deviations ε i as if drawn from a scale mixture of normal densities, (6) ε i | λ i, σ 2 ∼ N (0,   σ 2 λ i ) (7) λ i | ν ε ∼ 1 ν ε × χ 2, where the scale factor λ i is modeled as 1/νε times a draw from a chi-square distribution with νε d.f.

If I as much as faintly….

I nodded as if I understood, but I didn't.

I feel as if I were there.

I felt as if I were imploding.

I feel as if I'm floating.