Example sentences of "[that] it be [prep] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my boyfriends said that it 's as if I was from another planet . |
| 2 | On the other hand , there is no alternative to understanding the world through interpretations and models and hence through what are , in the last analysis , intellectual fictions whose warrant is only that it is as if they were true . |
| 3 | Campbell is not saying that Christ takes our sin upon himself but he identifies so closely with us that it is as if he makes our confession and is thus separated from the presence of God for us . |
| 4 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 5 | It does not do to attribute human motives to animals but Billy said afterwards that it was as if she was reluctant to leave and did not expect to be back . |
| 6 | He had played so extraordinarily fair with her the night before , he reflected , contentedly , that it was as if he had not played at all . |
| 7 | Suddenly the eagle opened his wings , fell back in an arc of restricted flight , and dashed his talons on the far side of his cage before plunging back towards Creggan , so powerfully and full of anger that it was as if he had forgotten that there were two walls of bars and iron mesh between them . |
| 8 | He felt he knew very little about her present feelings , which were so malign toward him and unmapped that it was as if he were seeing the back side of the moon . |
| 9 | Izzie breathed the words so softly into Gabriel 's ear that it was as if he had thought them himself . |