Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claims that appear endlessly in newspaper columns are about whether the government has taken proper account of the expected increase in demand and costs . |
| 2 | The tape recording of the interview no longer exists ; in essence , the case will be about whether the jury believes Jason or the journalist . |
| 3 | You can just imagine what it would be like if a child was actually wearing this at the time of ignition . |
| 4 | I wonder what it 'd be like if the phone suddenly rung and it was for me . |
| 5 | He was the man she wanted to be with for the rest of her life and she was willing to jump through any hoop and over any hurdle to win him . |
| 6 | The profit would have been minus cos the costs would still be there so it must be a cancellation . |
| 7 | I am less sure about the Andantino grazioso , which could be more relaxed than here ; it 's as if the performers are anxious that this longish ( and to be honest , maybe too long ) movement should not outstay its welcome , and even here it lasts getting on for three minutes longer than either of the others . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home . |
| 9 | It 's as if the relationship needed redefining and I was n't committed to doing that . |
| 10 | But I ca n't explain it , it 's as if the devil himself is down there , and there 's this horrible smell that chokes you and at the same time you get the feeling that something evil is lying in wait for you . |
| 11 | It 's as if the lights have fused . |
| 12 | To complete the analogy , it 's as if the RFU is a lumbering forward giving a hospital pass that leaves Best no room to sidestep , no alternative but to put his head down and put his trust in the tried and tested battering ram technique . |
| 13 | It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's as if the gods have given us a gift to use against our enemies . |
| 15 | In nightclubs and pop promo videos , it 's as if the banshees have come down screaming from the catwalk , staggering in their stilettos under the weight of their Max Factor cosmetics and costume jewellery . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's as if the batteries are dead , ’ she said . |
| 17 | It 's as if the denial of the pain inhibits their capacity to learn . |
| 18 | It 's as if the tube sucked the sunlight out of them . |
| 19 | One may compare such a public certification of the title with the stamp on a coin , which attests the genuineness of the metal , whereas the system of private investigation of title is as if a man was obliged to employ an expert analyst to test the genuineness of the coins which might be tendered to him . |
| 20 | In these experiments , the rats learn the new trick best at those times when they remember the old trick least well : it is as if a rat can learn a new trick more easily when its memory is not muddling it with the memory of the old trick . |
| 21 | It is as if a wind instrument , soulless in itself , were being played through warm and breathing tissues instead of through wood or metal . |
| 22 | The whole effect is as if an aftermarket body-kit specialist has had a go at embellishing a 911 , with the predictable result . |
| 23 | In the case of the curious ‘ rodent-run ’ display , it is as if the bird is running away and hiding at the same time . |
| 24 | The relations among the actors all relate to their positions in the bureaucratic organization and it is as if the bureaucracy were a self-contained world , except for the points of contact where commerce with the rest of the world enters and leaves . |
| 25 | It is as if the company in some very deep way has been unable to acknowledge that customers even have choices . |
| 26 | It is as if the past is being rejected with the author adopting a rhetoric commonly used by anti-fascists . |
| 27 | The same experience comes from some few words of a poet or a mystic ; it is as if the emotions of the poet that he has graven in his poem strike a response and the mind is transported . |
| 28 | It is as if the emotions form the landscape of the mind like water forms the valleys by long erosion . |
| 29 | It is as if the molecules that form the flowers and leaves have been twisted and re-assembled into lovely globes , the nurseries of these insects . |
| 30 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |