Example sentences of "is [prep] if a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is as if a wind instrument , soulless in itself , were being played through warm and breathing tissues instead of through wood or metal . |
| 3 | It is as if a strong relationship between the network structure of a given group and choice of phonetic realization of a particular vowel disqualifies that group from fulfilling the role of innovators with respect to that vowel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The effect is as if a central strip were cut out and the remaining top and bottom rectangles rejoined . |
| 6 | Across the plains on either side of the Mississippi and Missouri , it is as if a giant city planet had exploded , leaving a random scatter of asteroid towns frozen in their wanderings but uncommitted to an urban star . |