Example sentences of "[is] almost [prep] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | It is almost as if he feels he need only ask the lady in question to join him and she will have no hesitations about accepting his offer . |
| 4 | It is almost as if he stood in his stable and worked it out while chewing his haynet — a bit like solutions sometimes come to us while we 're soaking in the bath . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
| 8 | It 's almost as if we think subconsciously well we 've got that little bit extra , let's go for it . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's almost as if they 've been told to keep their distance . ’ |
| 10 | It 's almost as if you want to believe it . ’ |
| 11 | It 's almost as if you have to convince yourself that you did n't do it . ’ |
| 12 | It 's almost as if he paces in the corner of the office waiting to get his hands on me — and he gets jealous when I 'm writing about someone else . ’ |
| 13 | It 's almost as if he knows where he 's going , Bernice thought . |
| 14 | It 's almost as if he has no point of comparison . |
| 15 | Whatever the activity , I still see this as the old style … it 's teacher-led from that point of view in that they rely on me to start them off and I mean it 's almost as if I stand there with a gun and say ‘ Go ! ’ |