Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [conj] though [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | It is as though one has to find and engage the kind of gear which will allow communication that day , recognising good days and bad . |
2 | It is as though one has a newspaper delivered only for the football results on Saturdays and assumes that nothing at all happened on the other days of the week . |
3 | It is as though we have reached a plane beyond normal feelings . |
4 | It is as though we can not reach an expression that is midway between total holding in and violent , destructive rage . |
5 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
6 | It is as though we were to speak of dogs , lions , weasels , bears , hyenas , pandas and otters all in one breath , just because they are all carnivores . |
7 | It is as though they are unable to change their minds and this is a very dangerous trait in a glider pilot . |
8 | Children between eight and twelve seem too young to fight against cultural racism in school ; it is as though they are almost stunned into accepting the inferiority with which white society has labelled them . |
9 | It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood . |
10 | It is as though they are exchanging blows . |
11 | It is as though they are saying ‘ Look at us , we are not like others because we even adopted a black child . ’ |
12 | It is as though they were not fighting each other but some phantom German army . |
13 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
14 | It is as though you are drugged and have ceased to care . |
15 | It is as though you see the world through a glass wall ; everybody is there doing their usual things but there is no connection with you at all . |
16 | It is as though you are carrying the work of the day with you . |
17 | When these muscles are contracted the bones do n't transmit sound so efficiently — it is as though you muted a microphone by jamming your thumb against the vibrating diaphragm . |
18 | It is as though I have spent those motionless hours on her sofa in the hands of a hairdresser , hypnotist and clairvoyant combined . |
19 | It is as though I have left the dull class rooms of the world and the discordant sound of the trampling feet and I have reached a place far from men where my mind is moved by universal rhythms . |
20 | Edward thought : It is as though I were adrift , untethered . |
21 | It is as though I 've burped during Evensong . |
22 | It is as though he had analysed the failings in most other accounts of the work and had deliberately devised the means to obviate them . |
23 | It is as though he had analysed the failings in most other accounts of the work and had deliberately devised the means to obviate them . |
24 | It is as though he wants to get my record straight before I leave . |
25 | It is as though he continued to play with toys all his life and never reached maturity . |
26 | It is as though he is amazing himself with his own lust . |
27 | The method has become so ensconced in public law thought that today we seem incapable of recognizing any work which predates Dicey ; it is as though he invented the subject . |
28 | It is as though he has already been mentioned . |
29 | It is as though he 's been inside for months . |
30 | SHOTESHAM IS unaltered ; it is as though it were built yesterday . |