Example sentences of "[pers pn] is as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realizes that she is as yet too selfish to be truly creative and puts off her artistic endeavours for the time being so that she can first learn the more humble task of interpretation . |
| 2 | And well Miss Clark might remember I mean she is as you say probably one of the oldest people and perhaps Miss could rattle her brains a little . |
| 3 | Seeing this stranger among the gleaners Boaz asks his foreman about Ruth , and she is as we 've mentioned , she , he talks about her diligence , about her respectful ways , about her , her consideration for other and Boaz offers to her , three things , he offers to her guidance he says , do n't go anywhere else , you stay here . |
| 4 | The first impression the interviewer will have of you is as you come through the door . |
| 5 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 6 | It is as though they are unable to change their minds and this is a very dangerous trait in a glider pilot . |
| 7 | It is as though you are drugged and have ceased to care . |
| 8 | It is as though the panel has developed a blind spot which does not admit the possibility that the newcomer might win . |
| 9 | As well as a rug he takes a book , author and title unspecified ; the eternal traveller is also the eternal student , and it is as ‘ the student ’ that Verkhovensky first appears in the manuscript drafts . |
| 10 | He suggests that such tendencies occur here as an overcompensation for the closed consciousness or ‘ dual narcissism , to which Fanon attributes the depersonalization of colonial man ; that ‘ it is as it Fanon is fearful of his most radical insights ’ ( p. xx ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ It is as in 1945 . |
| 16 | SHOTESHAM IS unaltered ; it is as though it were built yesterday . |
| 17 | For it is as publisher , not as chief executive , that Mr Sulzberger decides whom the newspaper will endorse in an election . |
| 18 | It is as though Edward , in 1896 , had abandoned the career ‘ as Philip ’ which Noble had made smooth fur him as readily as , seventeen years later , he allowed the fictional Philip to die . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is as you travel to work , or as you take the dog out for a walk , or as you walk on the Downs , or when you have that quiet morning cup of coffee . |
| 20 | It is as we travel into the faith of Christ that we grow in our appreciation of his love and of our own deep unworthiness . |
| 21 | ( At a meeting I attended recently about Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses someone said , ‘ You do not understand how we have been insulted ; it is as though someone had raped my daughter . ’ |
| 22 | It is as though she was deliberately coaxed into that warm and shabby coffee bar by whatever saving force or spirit I can feel ever more strongly in this no longer quite so bleak habitation of mine . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is as though the information , induced and deduced by the techniques , were observed through tinted spectacles that obscure certain types of information . |
| 25 | It is as though all the proofs and evidences of philosophy had mistaken their rationality for how people actually think . |
| 26 | What are the names of your children ? ’ ) , or night comes so abruptly it is as though someone has pulled down a blind . |
| 27 | It is as though I have spent those motionless hours on her sofa in the hands of a hairdresser , hypnotist and clairvoyant combined . |
| 28 | It is as though he wants to get my record straight before I leave . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is as though , in literary terms , the peasant world , defined by neo-realism , and the disembodied , technocratic environments of the neo-avant-garde had been lifted out of their historical context and plastered together in a sharply disjunctive collage . |