Example sentences of "[coord] it is as [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the sight of a temple or mountain , the mind is stirred and it is as if the soul has left the mundane and flown into the intangible . |
| 2 | Every moment then has significance and an aura of delight surrounds everything and it is as if he had found a rare wellbeing and joy . |
| 3 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |
| 4 | And if he puts his hand to his forehead he can feel the scars of ridged skin that he was n't born with and it is as if each rippled furrow represents , records each recollective twinge . |
| 5 | ‘ There is a feeling of deliverance within me and it is as if she and I had stopped being two , and were united for ever and ever . ’ |
| 6 | The relations among the actors all relate to their positions in the bureaucratic organization and it is as if the bureaucracy were a self-contained world , except for the points of contact where commerce with the rest of the world enters and leaves . |
| 7 | But the poetry which emerged front that experience is hard and clear , and it is as if his capacity for suffering existed with an immense ability to use and to order it . |
| 8 | But it is as if , instead of trading actual items , book collectors were to trade only information about a particular novel . |
| 9 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |