Example sentences of "[be] as [subord] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if the denial of the pain inhibits their capacity to learn . |
| 2 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 3 | ‘ It is as if the realisation of their utter irrelevance , and the futility of their actions , drives the terrorists on to ever more barbaric crimes . |
| 4 | When Serena dies , leaving Stella behind , it is as if the dominance of control and stability has come to an end . |
| 5 | It is as if the creation of a regulatory bureaucracy carries with it implicit powers to achieve agency goals . |
| 6 | It is as if the religion of Abraham … is at last fulfilled not in Jesus but in Constantine ’ . |
| 7 | ( One bullion dealer whines : ‘ It is as if the Bank of England had let Robert Maxwell loose in the vaults . ’ ) |
| 8 | It is as if the method of our democracy was a technical question with which the masses should not bother their pretty little heads . |
| 9 | Mad perhaps , but it was as if a part of Mark could be preserved while she stayed with this odd assortment of people . |
| 10 | It was as if a couple of animals hounded from one burrow , nest or lair had im-mediately taken possession of another and started up just where they had left off . |
| 11 | When he stormed in the door it was as if a gale of wind was behind him , and he shouted his wife 's name at the top of his voice . |
| 12 | It was as if the ecology of the place had chosen to imitate politics . |
| 13 | It was as if the bottom of a water-tank had been punctured . |
| 14 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
| 15 | It was as if the dominance of his spirit had conquered the physical results of lack of sleep , lending him a new vitality which arced across the distance between them , charging her own weakened batteries , as he responded to a challenge which had been originally hers . |
| 16 | When , as they moved towards their first coupling , ‘ it was as if the whole of myself , body and spirit , even parts of me I never knew existed , came alive at his touch ’ ? |
| 17 | It was as if the Secretary of State were directly running the railways himself , with no chairman or managing director between him and the service . |
| 18 | To hypothesize , it was as if the king of France held the earldom of Cornwall or Lancaster from the king of England , who could therefore exert some degree of control over the foreign policy and behaviour of the king of France . |
| 19 | The spines were also slightly changed in shape ; it was as if the head of each had been blown up like a little balloon — just what biophysical theory would predict would need to happen if the electrical connections between the pre-and postsynaptic sides were being strengthened when the chick pecked the bitter bead ; and exactly the sort of change which might be predicted as a consequence of increased glycoprotein synthesis . |
| 20 | It was as if the idea of God in the mind was like a shadow thrown on a wall . |
| 21 | It was as if the energy of their tears revived him . |
| 22 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 23 | I was n't being good about it any more ; it was as if the effort of getting upstairs had used up the last of my good behaviour . |