Example sentences of "it was as [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was as if two distant times had suddenly met in a single second and two different women in a single gesture . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was as if two Kas battled for control of him . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ When I told the nurses , they did n't seem too surprised and it was as if such a mix-up was not uncommon . |
| 6 | I can not account for its striking me more now than any other day , but it was as if new to me ; and I listened to every sentence he spoke as if to a musical composition . ’ |
| 7 | — 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 . |
| 8 | It was as if all the heroines were cast in circumstances where duty forbade them to marry . |
| 9 | It was as if all Scots wore the kilt , or all Cockneys dressed as Pearlies . |
| 10 | He was like a kind of martyr , it was as if all my failings were stones that were thrown at him and which he never complained of . |
| 11 | It was as if all Australia had heard the interview . |
| 12 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 13 | It was as if all this was a special key — a coded lexicon — designed for one mind only . |
| 14 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 15 | It was as if all her energy had been sucked out of her . |
| 16 | It was as if all the Wandas and Melissas of her imagination had just drifted ceilingwards with the steam . |
| 17 | It was as if all creation conspired here to show people the mystery and the marvel of love . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was as if that letter had never been written . |
| 20 | It was as if that picture were telling me Everything is sculpture . ’ |
| 21 | It was as if that one experience had been so charged with meaning it had forever changed something in his being . |
| 22 | It was as if that was the only emotion Jack allowed himself , the only time he let down his guard , and she sensed that it was almost involuntary and if he could have prevented it he would have done . |
| 23 | For many observers it was as if German industry sprang out of nowhere . |
| 24 | It was as if these were the names of tenants or people who lived upstairs , but in fact no one lived upstairs except Madame . |
| 25 | It was as if these verbal skirmishes had a deeper meaning . |
| 26 | It was as if some artistic giant at the making of the world had arranged it — with the perfect placing of Buda Hill in a curve of the Danube on an otherwise flat landscape . |
| 27 | It was as if some authoritative being had decided that from that moment the names that had applied to such objects as soap , cheese , tree or book were to be exchanged for others , and all signs of delight registered by temper tantrums . |
| 28 | It was as if some giant electrician was just rehearsing effects in the sky . |
| 29 | In that instant it was as if some dam erected long ago around his heart had been breached . |
| 30 | It was as if some part of Martin had Passed into him . |