Example sentences of "[was/were] as [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if Chapman were a captain trying to keep afloat on a treacherous sea in a small boat that threatened at any moment to spring a leak . |
| 2 | It was as if Marcus were actually waiting for him to effect some magical release or communication . |
| 3 | It was as if hammers had hit us ; without a word we left , and we did not set foot in the house for many months , until Valeria announced that all was forgiven . |
| 4 | Moping around Meadowlands last year when Mario 's son was racing and the old man was too and the whole scene was as unglamorous as the Jersey flatlands can be , the burgers blazing on wet barbecues , Karl Haas 's cigar smouldering briefly in the foreground , it was as if Mario had brought a whole world of his own into the paddock , a world he 'd always had , that was completely self-sufficient and had a cleaner , friendlier air . |
| 5 | It was as if Ruth and Fand were once more alone in the little glade . |
| 6 | It was as if Ruth were truly Emma 's child and for some reason Rachaela had had to come down and witness this scene . |
| 7 | It was as if feminism had never happened . |
| 8 | It was as if Lucie 's pride had been purged away by standing in that vat of swirling morning mist . |
| 9 | It was as if sea and wind together were singing a lament , mourning with a not quite human voice , the voice of water echoing in a sea-cave , weird , unearthly . |
| 10 | It was as if gods themselves made war . |
| 11 | It was as if Marc himself were some sort of electrical power source . |
| 12 | And it was as if Boy was now suddenly the drowning one , and O was the lifeguard ; O slapped him twice around the face , pulled his head back by a handful of hair and placed his mouth over Boy 's before he had time to speak , and kissed him right there in the doorway of The Bar . |
| 13 | It was as if Chambers bad been waiting for this admission . |
| 14 | It was as if Madame had deliberately placed this story underneath the story of the authoress 's life . |
| 15 | It was as if Andrus 's legs had given way under him . |
| 16 | It was as if Zurachina had divined what he was thinking . |
| 17 | It was as if things were taking place at a distance , in some dream-like realm . |
| 18 | As the people came flocking to see him , it was as if Roberto 's back got broader and he held his head higher . |
| 19 | It was as if Ben had outgrown them all . |
| 20 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 21 | And you know I went into that film it was just being launched in America , and there was a sort of prologue to the film and er I did n't know whether to , to become terribly angry or , or just about cry because the prologue was as if Britain was a sinking ship you know , this was the last we would see of this great thing and they made the most of it you know , like er i the g the film was the old private schools you know the old w well the public schools in England . |
| 22 | It was as if Uulaa was hosting a PanGalactic Convocation of Criminality . |
| 23 | It was as if Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade — totally , with no mercy . |
| 24 | Forced to face up to her own fears and failed expectations , it was as if Belinda had to deal with two babies : one was the theoretical idea of a baby with Down 's syndrome , the other was Sophie herself . |
| 25 | How her whole body had seemed to become part of the bow , and how , when the arrow had been released , it was as if part of her had flown through the air towards the distant target . |
| 26 | In Prevert 's words : ‘ It was as if life , in a snapshot , had made a portrait of Doisneau . ’ |
| 27 | It was as if Kong Cheuk Kwan v R and Seymour had never occurred . |
| 28 | It was as if Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments to find Christ and the disciples standing in the crowd . |
| 29 | It was as if God had kicked a bucket of water over . |
| 30 | It was as if game birds had been flushed by beaters and driven towards a central point , forced to attack the heart of power and authority in a desperate bid to secure this for themselves and seal the planet . |