The phrase "as if participating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone is acting or feeling as though they are involved in an activity or event, even if they are not actually participating.
Example: "She listened intently to the discussion, as if participating in the debate herself."
Alternatives: "as though taking part" or "as if engaged".
Then, as if participating in a perfect script, the Raptors' Dale Davis dribbled the ball off his foot with Mourning guarding him.
As if participating in the joke of their transplantation from Baroque to postmodernist art, the costumed men and women had set their faces in comically rigid, exaggerated expressions.
On a dimly lit stage, He and She sit in adjoining high-backed armchairs, as if participating in a psychotherapy session.
It is as if participating in the arts provided the sense of solidarity and ability to cope needed in challenging times.
The film's attempt to portray the Queen as more politically enlightened than her courtiers is kindly but unconvincing, and many of the actors bark and behave as if participating in a spoof.
You wonder about the callers who telephone to share the joy that Joan Rivers's costume jewelry and Victoria Principal's makeup has brought them, as if participating in a global 12-step meeting.
The amount to be reported is any amount paid under the contract during such reporting period as if such participating FFI were a U.S. payor.
Such reporting must be done as if such participating FFI were a U.S. payor and each holder of an account that is a specified U.S. person, passive NFFE that is a U.S. owned foreign entity, or owner-documented FFI were a payee who is an individual and citizen of the United States.
However, the Irish News quotes Bennett's defence: "What you're trying to do is give the viewer the sense that they're not just watching something, they're not just spectators, but almost as if they're participating, almost as if they're there.
It would be as if you participated in every conversation in the hallway and at the water cooler". A recent study by the Institute for the Future, the Gallup Organization, Pitney Bowes Inc. and San Jose State University found what workers like Grochow already know: With technology has come communications gridlock.
The findings indicate that male voters exhibit biological responses to the realignment of a country's dominance hierarchy as if they participated in an interpersonal dominance contest.
