Example sentences of "almost as [subord] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chopping as if she really means it , the sharp knife hacking through the orange flesh , the bits flying , almost as if it is something personal . |
| 2 | Water is ill at ease when situated higher than the surrounding ground , almost as if it is impatient to tumble to a lower area . |
| 3 | It 's almost as if it 's a completely different team , that do n't even talk to one another . |
| 4 | People so we 're we 'll almost as if it 's like a lady and look after it so that it wo n't get old and have nasty sneezes , that sort of idea . |
| 5 | you know it 's almost as if it 's like er you know a sort of negative thing to , to , to find out about somebody erm so erm yeah I mean I think I , so I think you 'll , I think you 'll , you 'll of necessity have to try and do something which captures this , this sort of informal talk because as soon as people commit themselves to writing they 're gon na be erm they 're gon na be |
| 6 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 7 | There is an illusion of sitting high above the ground , almost as if it was a transport aircraft . |
| 8 | Whether it was the distance , whether the record , because it must have been a record , had been deliberately slowed — there seemed to be some tonal distortion as well — I could n't tell , but the song came with a dreamlike slowness and dimness , almost as if it was being sung out of the stars and had had to cross all that night and space to reach me . |
| 9 | But she said that almost as if it were expected of her rather than with conviction — and the family knew it . |
| 10 | It is simply not enough to accept , almost as if it were an understandable and reasonable attitude , that Mary preferred to remain in France , and dream of the English throne , rather than return to Scotland . |
| 11 | The second method tries to analyse the structure of the fossil almost as if it were a piece of engineering . |
| 12 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
| 13 | After dinner , back on the boat , he sat and talked about the soil as the common link between people of all nations , and spoke almost lovingly of husbandry and caring for the soil almost as if it were a human being . |
| 14 | Almost as if it were playing a game . |
| 15 | Drone drone drone went the engine noise , almost as if it were the sound of the pen against the paper . |
| 16 | Caro had noticed before the way her mother always avoided referring to the accident and Caro 's time in hospital , almost as if it were something obscene . |