Example sentences of "it is as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | It is as though they are unable to change their minds and this is a very dangerous trait in a glider pilot . |
| 3 | It is as though you are drugged and have ceased to care . |
| 4 | It is as though the panel has developed a blind spot which does not admit the possibility that the newcomer might win . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It is as in 1945 . |
| 12 | SHOTESHAM IS unaltered ; it is as though it were built yesterday . |
| 13 | For it is as publisher , not as chief executive , that Mr Sulzberger decides whom the newspaper will endorse in an election . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is as though the information , induced and deduced by the techniques , were observed through tinted spectacles that obscure certain types of information . |
| 21 | It is as though all the proofs and evidences of philosophy had mistaken their rationality for how people actually think . |
| 22 | What are the names of your children ? ’ ) , or night comes so abruptly it is as though someone has pulled down a blind . |
| 23 | It is as though I have spent those motionless hours on her sofa in the hands of a hairdresser , hypnotist and clairvoyant combined . |
| 24 | It is as though he wants to get my record straight before I leave . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If the present , our present , has a place in the novel , it is as something that is looked to and not seen ; we do not exist . |
| 28 | It is as though the land knows of its own beauty , of its own greatness , and feels no need to shout it . |
| 29 | It is as though there were a secret passage underneath the knife-edge . |
| 30 | It is as if an economic historian , collating woeful Financial Times editorials every few years , were to conclude that there really were no business-cycles , let alone longer-term Kondratieff waves of growth and decline . |