Example sentences of "be [prep] [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 2 | What would our gates be like if our matches were so far from home ? |
| 3 | It 's as if its existence is almost blank as yet . |
| 4 | It 's as if his actual presence were some kind of inconvenience , like going to the toilet , as if his body were a mere nuisance . |
| 5 | It seems extraordinary to say , but it 's as if his emotions were still erm sort of adolescent , as if there was something in him which was never able to reconcile with his intellectual attitudes . |
| 6 | It 's as if my mind has suddenly broken through into a new area , a space , a vast capacity which I never dreamt I had . |
| 7 | It is as if her costumes were the reasons for her being there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then it is as if our fragmented lives are integrated , fulfilled and satisfied as they have never been before . |
| 10 | It is as if our vitality is sufficient to stop those apparently unhelpful influences from having any effect . |
| 11 | It is as if my body has not reacted as it is supposed to do , and that my mind is not as strong as it was in 1991 . |
| 12 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 13 | It was as if its backbone had been removed . |
| 14 | It was as if their covenant was both to keep the problem alive and yet to ensure they did nothing about it . |
| 15 | Lexandro stared at Valence , and it was as if their minds conjoined for an instant — Valence would never abandon Lexandro . |
| 16 | Luke 's hands , still at her hips , pulled her lower body to his abruptly , and it was as if their clothing did n't exist , the outer heat that flowed between them creating an inner one as liquid flame engulfed her loins . |
| 17 | It was as if their lives had been aimless , random as pinballs , but when they came inside her door , there was a chair especially for them and a mug chosen for their tea . |
| 18 | When they began to speak , so softly , it was as if their mouths uttered words that did not match their thoughts . |
| 19 | Agnes 's voice was so low that it was hardly audible to herself ; it was as if her thoughts had escaped and were afraid of their own sound . |
| 20 | It was as if her body was carrying her along , matter over mind , in fact , instead of the other way about . |
| 21 | But it was as if her grandson had saved her life with his gift . |
| 22 | It was as if her sight had n't totally cleared ; the currents of Undersea seemed to move round her , and somewhere Fand watched her silently , eyes full of darkness . |
| 23 | She had given herself two days , no more , and it was as if her urgency had crowded the place with chances . |
| 24 | It was as if her legs had turned to ice . |
| 25 | She could be matched to any of four performers in the floorshow ; Josie was n't sure why , but it was as if her teenager 's skin and certain odd , somehow held-back elements of her personality made her into a blank sheet onto which anything could be drawn . |
| 26 | It was as if her mind had split into two separate portions , Gina thought as with one part of it she listened attentively to the technical explanations and absorbed the aesthetic appearance of the system with approving eyes , her creative instincts stimulated with the challenge with which she 'd been bestowed . |
| 27 | She listened to me and she took copious notes , but it was as if her understanding was glazed over . |
| 28 | Although she had occasionally missed a meal before and never heard it protest , it was as if her stomach was asking for food . |
| 29 | And these afflicted abandoned mothers : it was as if his own mother were , for a moment , superimposed upon Irina 's mother who was always moaning and complaining and ill . |
| 30 | It was as if his mind was a leaking vessel , his sanity seeping out like water . |