Example sentences of "it is [prep] [conj] [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 2 | It is as if he is intent only on protecting his own interests . |
| 3 | The wood is laid on the altar , Isaac is bound and then ‘ put ’ ( the word in the Hebrew is as colourless as that : it is as if he is an object for slaughter , no longer a human being , let alone Abraham 's son ) on the wood . |
| 4 | Sixty-seven of them and you get sick at the sixty-eighth ’ , it is as if he is saying it to us over his shoulder as he bends down to examine another body . |
| 5 | It is as if he is most careful to avoid reference to ideology because that would imply a determinacy that his analysis would have to confront . |
| 6 | It is as if it is walking through a minefield . |