Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if political goals are what she decides and the role of ministers , civil servants , and advisers is to help implement them . |
| 2 | It is as if each animal wears on its skin a giant fingerprint , with as much individuality as would be needed for personal recognition . |
| 3 | It is as if each exon ended with a pointer saying ‘ continued on page 94 ’ . |
| 4 | It is as if each writer had taken the memory of some powerful event ( the terrible shock of being woken by a piercing noise ; discovering the ‘ magical ’ properties of magnets ) and daydreamed in such a concentrated way about it that a group of people , a situation , a story began to emerge . |
| 5 | It is as if all plans for radical reform ( and it must be remembered that the new media bring about substantial structural reforms to broadcasting ) can not be contemplated ; although , in fact , what is missing is a coherent argument for the preservation of the existing system . |
| 6 | It is as if such mimicry rips the word away from its object , disunifies the two , shows that a given straightforward generic word — epic or tragic — is one-sided , bounded , incapable of exhausting the object ; the process of parodying forces us to experience those sides of the object that are not otherwise included in a given genre or a given style . |
| 7 | It is as if repeated activity in the sensory neuron exhausts its supply of neurotransmitter , making the system as a whole less responsive . |
| 8 | It is as if academic freedom were a largely fixed commodity that was passed around among the groups contending for the right to make the key academic decisions . |
| 9 | It is as if those families had never been . |
| 10 | It is as if those prologues to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke had not been written . |
| 11 | It was as if each species of inedible butterfly was mimicked by the others , and this convergence of colour pattern became known as Müllerian Mimicry . |
| 12 | It was as if two Kas battled for control of him . |
| 13 | It was as if two palms had been placed against the frail skin and forced it upwards so that he saw with a shock of premonitory recognition the shine of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 14 | — She tried to shut them out but it was as if one memory had set free another : they came clamouring now to torment and bewilder her . |
| 15 | It was as if all creation conspired here to show people the mystery and the marvel of love . |
| 16 | It was as if all Scots wore the kilt , or all Cockneys dressed as Pearlies . |
| 17 | It was as if all Australia had heard the interview . |
| 18 | It was as if that letter had never been written . |
| 19 | It was as if that picture were telling me Everything is sculpture . ’ |
| 20 | Lucy was her immaculate self at work in the morning ; they had a drink in the pub , and it was as if that evening , the story , the kiss , the flowers , had not been . |
| 21 | For many observers it was as if German industry sprang out of nowhere . |
| 22 | In that instant it was as if some dam erected long ago around his heart had been breached . |
| 23 | It was as if some part of Martin had Passed into him . |
| 24 | It was as if menacing music had been played in a film , accompanying a scene of innocent happiness . |
| 25 | It was as if those streamers , knotted to the shrine , ensured the gods ' protection — that Bhawāni , who went south , would bring the shepherds safely home again and Maiyu would take care of all those who stayed behind : as if the streamers knotted autumn safely on to spring . |
| 26 | To the coming generation of performers , pop was no longer expected to mean anything other than what it represented on the surface ; it was as if pop music 's aspirations towards deeper meanings and truths had been exhausted ; social realism was distanced by irony and a conscious manipulation of artifice . |