Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know that it 's for or against that he dotes on his wife . |
| 2 | One of my boyfriends said that it 's as if I was from another planet . |
| 3 | Campbell is not saying that Christ takes our sin upon himself but he identifies so closely with us that it is as if he makes our confession and is thus separated from the presence of God for us . |
| 4 | On the other hand , there is no alternative to understanding the world through interpretations and models and hence through what are , in the last analysis , intellectual fictions whose warrant is only that it is as if they were true . |
| 5 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 6 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 7 | He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’ |
| 8 | So that divided forty-nine point two three four by ten and it 's as if I 've moved the point one place back . |
| 9 | And it 's as if it was n't floating on the surface and it was doing all the things that fishes do but it was |
| 10 | And it 's with and without all the way up to that , yeah . |
| 11 | Did erm , have you seen this and it 's for when you eh , eh change your week ending . |
| 12 | When the signs are the same if they 're two pluses you add them and it 's plus if they 're both minus you add them and it 's minus here you take the smaller from the larger and give it the sign of a larger . |
| 13 | He will also learn to clarify his ends ; originally he saw no further than immediate goals , the satisfaction of hunger and relief from nausea ; later he conceptualizes the nourishing of the body by food and the danger to health of over-eating , and it is towards or away from these that he finds himself spontaneously pulled . |
| 14 | At the sight of a temple or mountain , the mind is stirred and it is as if the soul has left the mundane and flown into the intangible . |
| 15 | Every moment then has significance and an aura of delight surrounds everything and it is as if he had found a rare wellbeing and joy . |
| 16 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |
| 17 | And if he puts his hand to his forehead he can feel the scars of ridged skin that he was n't born with and it is as if each rippled furrow represents , records each recollective twinge . |
| 18 | ‘ There is a feeling of deliverance within me and it is as if she and I had stopped being two , and were united for ever and ever . ’ |
| 19 | The relations among the actors all relate to their positions in the bureaucratic organization and it is as if the bureaucracy were a self-contained world , except for the points of contact where commerce with the rest of the world enters and leaves . |
| 20 | But the poetry which emerged front that experience is hard and clear , and it is as if his capacity for suffering existed with an immense ability to use and to order it . |
| 21 | But it is as if , instead of trading actual items , book collectors were to trade only information about a particular novel . |
| 22 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |
| 23 | ‘ But it 's as if he 's in the same room . |
| 24 | But it 's as if I 'd never borne her , it 's as if he himself had given birth to her . |
| 25 | It seems extraordinary to say , but it 's as if his emotions were still erm sort of adolescent , as if there was something in him which was never able to reconcile with his intellectual attitudes . |
| 26 | We see the new concern as arising in an era of restraint , but see that the case for value for money stands apart from the political stance taken — whether it is for or against cuts in local government expenditure . |
| 27 | Taking these 12 pollsters ' December 1991 GDP forecasts , we have added up their absolute forecasting errors ( ie , ignoring whether it is plus or minus ) for each of the seven economies . |
| 28 | This perhaps represents Owen 's line of thought with him becoming more and more emotional to the middles of the verse , reaching climaxes and then , as it is as if he questions this freely running thought process , and he limits himself to so much emotion by the end of each verse . |
| 29 | There is the social acquaintance you do not feel comfortable being near , for it is as if she sucks something out of you and you come away feeling tired and dispirited . |