Example sentences of "is as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if the war , crisis , living hell or chaotic backwater can never be known and will never end . |
| 2 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 3 | It is as if the discovery could have no meaning for anyone experiencing the novel — which would certainly be curious . |
| 4 | Here , it is as if both the single and the plural accounts of human nature were specious . |
| 5 | It is as if , with the name , an extra dimension of personality is added — not merely as a pious recollection of the great , but as a stimulus ( at times a goad ) to the one so named . |
| 6 | The way to look at Bye Bye Baby , they insist , is as a ‘ light , surreal comedy ’ . |
| 7 | It is as if prosecutors could suggest the sentence while presenting evidence for a conviction . |
| 8 | It is as an advocate of twentieth-century music that Rowicki may best be remembered . |
| 9 | It is as if her costumes were the reasons for her being there . |
| 10 | We gave the whole matter a fair airing on everything involved in South Africa and that 's why the result is as such . |
| 11 | The whole effect is as if an aftermarket body-kit specialist has had a go at embellishing a 911 , with the predictable result . |
| 12 | It is as a result of fears such as this that members of the RUC are required to obtain official permission before they cam talk to outsiders , such as the Press and researchers , or face being sacked from the force . |
| 13 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 14 | It is as if we were to pay family allowances to every third family on a different scale in each place . |
| 15 | In fact the principal political significance of incomes policy is as a device for transferring responsibility from the Government to others , something which politicians are expert at doing — which indeed is necessary for their survival . |
| 16 | It is as a native that he accepts the River God , and it is the subjection of Man that gives to Man his dignity . |
| 17 | It is as if containment , in reinstating nature over culture — that most fundamental and violent of binary oppositions — says too much about both . |
| 18 | Thus when the women stop pleading for peace and resort instead to the threat of killing themselves it the fight proceeds , it is as if the currents of sexuality and violence , circulating between the men in a way which sustains sexual difference between male and female , are suddenly switched off ; the threatened self-annihilation of the women is also a breaking of the circuit . |
| 19 | It is as if political goals are what she decides and the role of ministers , civil servants , and advisers is to help implement them . |
| 20 | It is as if the public recognizes that society has changed over the decade but does not much like what sees . |
| 21 | It is as if none of these problems and controversies ever existed . |
| 22 | It is as if those who know aid best from the viewpoint of the recipients fear that an outspoken critique will turn off the tap rather than improve the quality of the flow . |
| 23 | It is as if labour is a thing which comes naturally on the market and then inevitably is bought and sold according to the laws of supply and demand . |
| 24 | It is as if you could read in them simultaneously transcriptions of inducement , threat , coercion , protection , solace , yearning and resistance . |
| 25 | Because the social structure in the villages was one based on patriarchal families , where the daughter is invariably given away in marriage , and where , because a woman 's chief economic role is as a producer of labour power ( her sons ) she is not considered of any real economic value before she is married . |
| 26 | For Corporal Gary Elmer , whose day job is as a builder , this is a big change : during the week he puts them up , and at weekends he knocks them down ! |
| 27 | Meanwhile at Thorey Island , one of the groups is under the charge of Corporal Alison Miller , Whose civilian job is as a secretary , but at weekends she becomes a Women 's Royal Army Corps Provost NCO . |
| 28 | Brian , a twenty-year-old draughtsman , had seen it all before , but it was the first time for Jane , his nineteen-year-old wife , whose daytime job is as a telephonist . |
| 29 | But it is as a kicker that he has made his name . |
| 30 | The most-talked-about end use is as a grandiose teaching machine . |