Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather as if a burglar , when sued for the recovery of the stolen property or its value , sought contribution from a security guard who , by falling asleep while on duty , had made the burglary possible . |
| 2 | If you can prove that the goods were defective when you bought them , you do have a claim against the seller and this is regardless of whether the guarantee has expired or not . |
| 3 | It is not as if the Home Secretary had not been warned . |
| 4 | It is not as if the blame was being placed on Labour counties , for in only one case where a Conservative or hung district had a poll tax of over £400 ( Derby ) did Labour control the county . |
| 5 | It is not as if the Administration really believes that any more . |
| 6 | It 's not as if the evidence was n't hefty enough — there 's an endless list of drugs and substances which show how results ca n't be extrapolated across species barriers . |
| 7 | It 's not as if the contribution of Labour Councillors to th to the management of Health Authorities has been very er productive . |
| 8 | What I need is a couple of hours ’ peace and quiet and I 'll be fine for the presentation tomorrow — besides , ’ she added persuasively , ‘ it 's not as if the party was being thrown for us . |
| 9 | It 's not as if the house is terribly old or any thing that the plasters , even . |
| 10 | It 's not as if the regulation colours are practical . |
| 11 | The jury is out on whether the Government is ushering in a new golden age of private railways or whether , in the words of one of its sworn enemies — Jimmy Knapp , the RMT transport union leader — rail privatisation will turn out to be ‘ the poll tax of the nineties ’ |
| 12 | It is almost as if the man assigned the task has been chosen by lot , except that the drawing seems to have been fixed . |
| 13 | It is almost as if the direction of change is determined in advance ( by theory ) and then events have to be fitted into that pre-ordained model . |
| 14 | It is almost as if the speaker oscillates between fear and bravery , bitterness and acceptance . |
| 15 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 16 | It is almost as if the author is trying to suggest that the mechanical and functional beauty of the train , who seemingly has a life of her own , can surpass that true beauty of nature . |
| 17 | Unusually for dreaming , the plot is not in this case being driven by the visual imagery , but it is almost as if the feeling of terror is primary , and the process of dreaming is to interpret the somewhat mundane imagery to accommodate the emotion . |
| 18 | It is almost as if the teacher can enter the consciousness of the boy . |
| 19 | Reader manipulation is another recurring feature that in some ways is obvious looking at how the book is written but as you 're reading the book you 're practically living in it and when you finish it 's almost as if a piece of your daily routine is missing and because it is an integral part of your life it is hard to distance yourself from it and analyse it . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's almost as if the recession dam has broken . |
| 21 | Um it 's almost as if the debate about false memory syndrome is embedded in an older notion of memory , embedded in a notion of memory as if it were either literally true or literally false , embedded in a notion of memory which sees memories as things like larders or cupboards or filing cabinets and um y'know people pick the memories out and get them out and and display them to other people . |
| 22 | It was rather as if the author — for all the breadth of his experience which he was constantly insisting upon — had never quite grown up . |
| 23 | ‘ It was n't as if the surplus was created by the successor company . |
| 24 | It was so weird it made my hair stand on end ; it was almost as if a ghost had walked into the room . |
| 25 | It was almost as if the Russian had read Duncan 's mind . |
| 26 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 27 | It was almost at the end of surgery and it was almost as if the doctor were expecting me ; and later , I could hardly wait to tell Leo what had happened . |
| 28 | It was almost as if the agent could n't get rid of her fast enough . |
| 29 | It was almost as if the peasant could n't believe his luck , the cheek of him . |
| 30 | According to foreign news reports the split was essentially over whether the south should secede ; the dissident group favoured an independent black state , while Garang and his loyalists continued to support the goal of a united , secular Sudan . |