Example sentences of "as [conj] the [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most studies consider only social behaviour in the herd , or readily observed facts , such as that the horse is easily frightened , or that it will work better if it is rewarded rather than punished . |
| 2 | The applause crescendos , as if the boy is really present , and not simply broadcast from a video tape of an American Nation of Islam meeting . |
| 3 | This proves the promoter 's confidence that every ticket will be sold , committing him or her to paying the artist a fee as if the event is a sell-out , however many people actually attend the gig . |
| 4 | It is as if the person is balanced on a pivot between being angry and bursting into tears , and an honest expression of either feeling relieves the tension . |
| 5 | It is as if the past is being rejected with the author adopting a rhetoric commonly used by anti-fascists . |
| 6 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 7 | The head twists out as if the skin is wearing an old fashioned collar that 's too tight for comfort . |
| 8 | Act as if the message is not inconsistent . |
| 9 | The sun disappears , leaving behind its glow on the horizon as if the colour is in my head , burnt in by gazing too long at the red sphere . |
| 10 | He says you have hair like dark sunlight with flecks of gold as if the sun is trying to get through . |
| 11 | It is as if the monarchy is not a value in itself , but needs to be justified by more basic and universally accepted values . |
| 12 | In this case too it looks as if the decision is out of line with the most obvious interpretation of the words . |
| 13 | In the case of the curious ‘ rodent-run ’ display , it is as if the bird is running away and hiding at the same time . |
| 14 | At the Centre Mondial , it looks to the outside observer as if the problem is reversed . |
| 15 | It was as if the presidency is for sale " . |
| 16 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 17 | Other instances of police violence ( e.g. the batoning incident ) are not accompanied by spoken commentary , as if the reporter is reluctant to condemn such action . |
| 18 | But I feel exceedingly warm and cosy , as if the storm is over — for now . ’ |
| 19 | The English text achieves a higher level of informality by appearing to consider various angles of the problem in a relaxed , casual way , as if the writer is simply taking up issues as they occur to him/her . |
| 20 | ‘ It does sound as though there is , ’ answered Brown Owl , ‘ and it keeps circling , almost as if the pilot is looking for somewhere to land . ’ |
| 21 | Whether some slight , invisible scent is expelled is not clear , but the gesture appears to have the meaning of a friendly ‘ personal identification ’ as if the cat is saying , ‘ Yes , this is me ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know what this is all about , or why you 're acting as if the bogyman is on your heels , but I suppose I 'll have to listen to you . ’ |
| 23 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 24 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
| 25 | It is as if the path is closed to me . |
| 26 | The JD Tele is jangly and promisingly loud ; the Signature model sounds subdued to the point of inertia , almost as if the basswood is sucking up the sound — not a good start . |
| 27 | ’ ( Threatening picture of a wave rising to overwhelm ; seen from the front , as if the viewer is about to be swallowed and filmed in slow motion to add tension . ) |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This may not be easy to prove , as if the precaution is possible it must be taken , even if the risks involved in taking it outweigh the benefits . |
| 30 | There is a telling ambiguity in the Hebrew here , as if the attacker is playing with Jacob , and the storyteller with us . |