Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mad perhaps , but it was as if a part of Mark could be preserved while she stayed with this odd assortment of people . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was as if every person in the room had been slapped in the face . |
| 5 | It was as if the ecology of the place had chosen to imitate politics . |
| 6 | It was as if the bottom of a water-tank had been punctured . |
| 7 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was as if the fight with Herman had had the effect she would have expected from eight hours on a contoured mattress and a course of Doc Threadneedle 's pick-me-up shots . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was as if the idea of God in the mind was like a shadow thrown on a wall . |
| 15 | It was as if the hunt for Lucy Ashdown had spread to take over his world from one horizon to the other and everything else , every essential concern and unanswered question , had been crowded out at the edges . |
| 16 | It was as if the energy of their tears revived him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |