Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actions are as if self-initiated by inanimates : this is seen in the large number of inanimate subjects of verbs of motion and activity . |
| 2 | ‘ Just think , this is what Heymouth must have been like before electricity was discovered , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Everyone pushes out the boat to look their best on the Big Day — so imagine what it must be like if money 's no object . |
| 4 | WHAT DRIVING TO THE STORE WOULD BE LIKE IF OPERATING SYSTEMS RAN YOUR CAR |
| 5 | When they did get him to speak , after several days , he said , in effect : This is what it would be like if family ties were broken , and how does it feel ? |
| 6 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 7 | It 's as if time has stood still , people have lost themselves and the only avenue left is to worship . |
| 8 | You spoke of your preference for fashion earlier , it 's as if fashion photography is more honest … |
| 9 | It is as if involvement in " character " is the highest goal . |
| 10 | It is as if curriculum development in the past 30 years had never existed ’ ( Times Educational Supplement ) . |
| 11 | It is as if industrialism and the growing success and power of science confirm all that the Enlightenment stood for : progress , it seems , really is the stuff of the universe . |
| 12 | In the waters of the monsoon pools of East Africa it is as if man sees a baboon in the mirror , for the development of baboon societies in the very regions in which human social life must have also evolved seems to reflect in extraordinarily detailed ways the emergence of features otherwise unique to human life . |
| 13 | It is as if containment , in reinstating nature over culture — that most fundamental and violent of binary oppositions — says too much about both . |
| 14 | It is as if humanity has once more been motivated by its instinctive awareness that its ‘ god ’ was not entirely satisfactory , and as a reaction against the exclusiveness of the male Christ , the female Mary has been taken in an effort to correct an imbalance which represented a completely unacceptable division of the human race . |
| 15 | It is as if literature were perhaps necessarily less susceptible to the temptations of logocentrism than other forms of discourse . |
| 16 | It is as if Mill was in two minds about it . |
| 17 | It is as if writing is seen as the inferior side of a dichotomy with speech , as if it were missing something which needs to be put back . |
| 18 | It is as if labour is a thing which comes naturally on the market and then inevitably is bought and sold according to the laws of supply and demand . |
| 19 | It is as if pedestrianisation has just been invented . |
| 20 | It is as if absence of this language/network relationship ( a relationship that fulfils a cohesive social function ) enables a particular social group to adopt the role of linguistic innovators . |
| 21 | Social theory of the family has a long history of debate on structural explanations , that is on whether family types adapt as appropriate to the social and economic world . |
| 22 | It was as if feminism had never happened . |
| 23 | It was as if sea and wind together were singing a lament , mourning with a not quite human voice , the voice of water echoing in a sea-cave , weird , unearthly . |
| 24 | And it was as if Boy was now suddenly the drowning one , and O was the lifeguard ; O slapped him twice around the face , pulled his head back by a handful of hair and placed his mouth over Boy 's before he had time to speak , and kissed him right there in the doorway of The Bar . |
| 25 | It was as if Madame had deliberately placed this story underneath the story of the authoress 's life . |
| 26 | How her whole body had seemed to become part of the bow , and how , when the arrow had been released , it was as if part of her had flown through the air towards the distant target . |
| 27 | In Prevert 's words : ‘ It was as if life , in a snapshot , had made a portrait of Doisneau . ’ |
| 28 | It was as if game birds had been flushed by beaters and driven towards a central point , forced to attack the heart of power and authority in a desperate bid to secure this for themselves and seal the planet . |
| 29 | It was as if reason had finally dominated a lifetime of emotion . |
| 30 | It was as if autumn could not wait to get rid of summer . |