Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if time has stood still , people have lost themselves and the only avenue left is to worship . |
| 2 | You spoke of your preference for fashion earlier , it 's as if fashion photography is more honest … |
| 3 | It is as if involvement in " character " is the highest goal . |
| 4 | It is as if curriculum development in the past 30 years had never existed ’ ( Times Educational Supplement ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is as if containment , in reinstating nature over culture — that most fundamental and violent of binary oppositions — says too much about both . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is as if literature were perhaps necessarily less susceptible to the temptations of logocentrism than other forms of discourse . |
| 10 | It is as if Mill was in two minds about it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is as if pedestrianisation has just been invented . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |