Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [prep] if the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is almost as if the muscles controlled the fingers as marionettes are controlled by their strings . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is almost as if the man assigned the task has been chosen by lot , except that the drawing seems to have been fixed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is almost as if the teacher can enter the consciousness of the boy . |
| 8 | It is almost as if the speaker oscillates between fear and bravery , bitterness and acceptance . |
| 9 | It is almost as if the author is trying to suggest that the mechanical and functional beauty of the train , who seemingly has a life of her own , can surpass that true beauty of nature . |
| 10 | It is almost as if the modern mind , unable to tolerate cultural restraints , and feeling that discontent in civilization which Freud described long ago , had become so intolerant of the demands of communal existence and civilized behaviour that it saw each and every representative of those restraints as an incitement to revolt rather in the same way that an enraged revolutionary mob , thirsting for the blood of its oppressors , might fall on some unfortunate bystander merely because he happened to bear a resemblance to the head of the secret police . |
| 11 | But such is the style of most of the arrangements that it 's almost as if the Basie band themselves were performing , rather than a vocal trio backed by a quartet . |
| 12 | And it 's weird ; it 's almost as if the European press is mad at us for ‘ taking their David away ’ , or something . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's almost as if the recession dam has broken . |
| 14 | Um it 's almost as if the debate about false memory syndrome is embedded in an older notion of memory , embedded in a notion of memory as if it were either literally true or literally false , embedded in a notion of memory which sees memories as things like larders or cupboards or filing cabinets and um y'know people pick the memories out and get them out and and display them to other people . |