Example sentences of "[is] as if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's as if the batteries are dead , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home . |
| 4 | In nightclubs and pop promo videos , it 's as if the banshees have come down screaming from the catwalk , staggering in their stilettos under the weight of their Max Factor cosmetics and costume jewellery . |
| 5 | But I ca n't explain it , it 's as if the devil himself is down there , and there 's this horrible smell that chokes you and at the same time you get the feeling that something evil is lying in wait for you . |
| 6 | To complete the analogy , it 's as if the RFU is a lumbering forward giving a hospital pass that leaves Best no room to sidestep , no alternative but to put his head down and put his trust in the tried and tested battering ram technique . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's as if the last time you saw me was yesterday . ’ |
| 8 | It 's as if the relationship needed redefining and I was n't committed to doing that . |
| 9 | I am less sure about the Andantino grazioso , which could be more relaxed than here ; it 's as if the performers are anxious that this longish ( and to be honest , maybe too long ) movement should not outstay its welcome , and even here it lasts getting on for three minutes longer than either of the others . |
| 10 | It 's as if the initial prophylactic use was enough to salve any consciences , enough to make everyone think , ‘ Well , we 've done our bit ’ , and nobody mentions their absence second time around . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's as if the gods have given us a gift to use against our enemies . |
| 12 | It 's as if the lights have fused . |
| 13 | It 's as if the denial of the pain inhibits their capacity to learn . |
| 14 | It 's as if the tube sucked the sunlight out of them . |
| 15 | It 's as if the despaired-of dove returned |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is as if a wind instrument , soulless in itself , were being played through warm and breathing tissues instead of through wood or metal . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The effect is as if a central strip were cut out and the remaining top and bottom rectangles rejoined . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The whole effect is as if an aftermarket body-kit specialist has had a go at embellishing a 911 , with the predictable result . |
| 23 | In the terms of our earlier discussion , it is as if an external ‘ banker ’ had magically appeared , making it possible for both Bristol and Coventry to benefit from the same outcome , a draw . |
| 24 | It is as if an invisible force field is keeping us at arms length . |
| 25 | It is as if the war , crisis , living hell or chaotic backwater can never be known and will never end . |
| 26 | It is as if the discovery could have no meaning for anyone experiencing the novel — which would certainly be curious . |
| 27 | Thus when the women stop pleading for peace and resort instead to the threat of killing themselves it the fight proceeds , it is as if the currents of sexuality and violence , circulating between the men in a way which sustains sexual difference between male and female , are suddenly switched off ; the threatened self-annihilation of the women is also a breaking of the circuit . |
| 28 | It is as if the public recognizes that society has changed over the decade but does not much like what sees . |
| 29 | It is as if the 200mph financial economy overtook the 100mph real economy , but , with its slipstream , helped the slowcoach to accelerate . |
| 30 | And yet it is as if the Gorbachev regime , having half-learnt its lesson in 1986 , has forgotten it again . |