Example sentences of "[is] [adv] as if " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather as if a burglar , when sued for the recovery of the stolen property or its value , sought contribution from a security guard who , by falling asleep while on duty , had made the burglary possible . |
| 2 | ‘ Sorry , I 'm being stupid , it 's just as if you might be too kind , too — you know — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just as if they downed tools and pushed off , ’ Forster remarked . |
| 4 | You 're going to get more , it 's just as if we had just the big pipe from the |
| 5 | It 's hardly as if one of us turned up and the other did n't . |
| 6 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 7 | It is almost as if we are confronted here by a replication of the poor Tom described in Ackroyd 's novel by another poor Tom of later times . |
| 8 | It is almost as if the catholic Irish people become a people of God in Old Testament terms , in a way similar to the Northern Calvinists , a people which have overriding power to set up their domain . |
| 9 | It is almost as if Thomas was trying to create , in fiction , an alternative pattern his life might have followed . |
| 10 | It is almost as if we are dealing with quite another God . |
| 11 | It is almost as if the muscles controlled the fingers as marionettes are controlled by their strings . |
| 12 | It is almost as if they were lent to us for their infancy and formative years , and are then entirely free to go their own way . |
| 13 | It is almost as if the direction of change is determined in advance ( by theory ) and then events have to be fitted into that pre-ordained model . |
| 14 | It is almost as if in Ichthus the word evangelism is synonymous with church planting . |
| 15 | The father , on the other hand , was unsure of the power of Jesus , and it is almost as if he says , ‘ I know you would if you could , but you probably ca n't . ’ |
| 16 | An eminent psychologist has remarked that a man in a mood is almost as if in the grip of a small psychosis , and can find himself helpless in the face of it , unless he has trained himself not to identify with it too strongly . |
| 17 | Judged by existing Christian literature , it is almost as if trade unions hardly exist . |
| 18 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 19 | At times , it is almost as if she is trying to emulate the star-studded image of Suzanne Lenglen , which she clearly admires so much . |
| 20 | His comment suggests that it is almost as if , when someone woke up in the morning , they were suddenly possessed of something mysterious in becoming conscious , like a metaphysical virus . |
| 21 | It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket . |
| 22 | It is almost as if he has acquired something of John 's own tempestuous wrath , John 's own dire , apocalyptic menace , John 's own threatening ultimata . |
| 23 | It is almost as if the man assigned the task has been chosen by lot , except that the drawing seems to have been fixed . |
| 24 | Unusually for dreaming , the plot is not in this case being driven by the visual imagery , but it is almost as if the feeling of terror is primary , and the process of dreaming is to interpret the somewhat mundane imagery to accommodate the emotion . |
| 25 | It is almost as if both men had to be chastened by the bitter lessons of Marxism in practice before there could be a return to the unproblematical friendship prior to the advent of Marxism in their lives . |
| 26 | It is almost as if having failed , the surgical staff can not bear to see the patient . |
| 27 | It is almost as if the teacher can enter the consciousness of the boy . |
| 28 | It is almost as if Lijn feels the need to replace a vacuum of powerful female imagery with real figures . |
| 29 | It is almost as if the speaker oscillates between fear and bravery , bitterness and acceptance . |
| 30 | It is almost as if she . |