The phrase "as if removing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or a hypothetical situation where something is being taken away or eliminated.
Example: "He spoke to her as if removing a heavy burden from her shoulders."
Alternatives: "as though taking away" or "as if eliminating".
I had found that this part of the discussion was best completed rapidly, as if removing an adhesive bandage.
It was wedged between small apartment buildings, as if removing it had been too much trouble, or maybe it even helped support the buildings.
This is the high style, but it is height without self-consciousness; Joyce climbed up there, too, but his was a parodic quest, and he stripped bare the language of nobility as if removing a suit of armor.
The columnist Polly Toynbee wrote on Aug. 12: The small-staters blame the collapse of moral values, school indiscipline and feral beasts without fathers or consciences, as if removing government allows morality to flourish.
Detention should always be a last resort but, in many cases, it is too readily adopted as an immediate response to antisocial or disruptive behaviour by children and adolescents, as if removing them out of sight and out of mind is a goal in itself, rather than an unintended consequence.
They will get dye off of the counter top, tile floor, or sink as well, if removed promptly.
If a virtual column is deleted then the column from which it is based, such as SKY if removing EQPOS from a Chandra event list, will not be deleted.
Finally, enact the punishment -- for the younger children, time-outs are a good option, as well as removing an item if it is causing the problem.
Bullers pulled during the first 50 d were returned to home pens on d 50 and were classified as a repull if removed again as a buller.
Proposed gasoline standards would be as effective as if we removed 33 million vehicles from the road, according to the American Lung Association.
Several recent studies have reported that As increases the intracellular calcium overload, and the increase is not reversible if As is removed (e.g., Günes et al. 2009).
