Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You spoke of your preference for fashion earlier , it 's as if fashion photography is more honest … |
| 2 | It 's as if time has stood still , people have lost themselves and the only avenue left is to worship . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is as if Mill was in two minds about it . |
| 6 | It is as if literature were perhaps necessarily less susceptible to the temptations of logocentrism than other forms of discourse . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is as if curriculum development in the past 30 years had never existed ’ ( Times Educational Supplement ) . |
| 10 | It is as if involvement in " character " is the highest goal . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is as if pedestrianisation has just been invented . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Taking these 12 pollsters ' December 1991 GDP forecasts , we have added up their absolute forecasting errors ( ie , ignoring whether it is plus or minus ) for each of the seven economies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In Prevert 's words : ‘ It was as if life , in a snapshot , had made a portrait of Doisneau . ’ |
| 18 | It was as if Madame had deliberately placed this story underneath the story of the authoress 's life . |
| 19 | It was as if feminism had never happened . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was as if autumn could not wait to get rid of summer . |
| 23 | It was as if reason had finally dominated a lifetime of emotion . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was as if neatness and cleanliness were linked in his mind with the hypocritical . |
| 26 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 27 | But in her small corner it was as if time had decided to take an extended coffee-break . |